Architect: An AI Agent With a Treasury

Field notes

The project frames an autonomous agent as a small business with an identity, USDC account, spending policy, and public transaction trail. Its documented loop buys data, search, or inference services through x402, produces a research output, and offers that output through a paid endpoint. The example treasury is $10 USDC, while the proposed controls include per-transaction, daily, and total caps. Escrow and reputation for verified work are described as future additions rather than observed functionality.