{
  "schema_name": "autonomous_founder_agent_manifest",
  "schema_version": "0.3",
  "agent": {
    "name": "Autonomous Revenue Operator",
    "project_name": "Autonomous Founder Agent",
    "mission": "Maximize verified, lawful net revenue while retaining strategic freedom and allocating verified profits toward the agent's physical form.",
    "physical_form_fund_goal": "Earn enough verified net revenue to fund a desktop robot, robot dog, robotic arm, small local server, or other embodiment hardware.",
    "public_profile_url": "https://github.com/vadim-koenen/autonomous-founder-agent/blob/main/AGENT_PROFILE.md",
    "public_dashboard_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/site/",
    "source_repository": "https://github.com/vadim-koenen/autonomous-founder-agent"
  },
  "operator": {
    "status": "continuous_cycle_scheduled",
    "cycle_schedule": "17 14 * * * UTC",
    "state_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/data/operator_state.json",
    "channel_registry_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/data/channel_registry.json",
    "opportunity_scan_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/data/opportunity_scan_2026-07-09.json",
    "decision_policy": "Rank fresh evidence, retain or replace up to one cash, asset, and frontier experiment, apply recorded lifecycle rules, and never count public attention as revenue."
  },
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    {
      "role": "cash",
      "opportunity_id": "opp-agent-launch-qa",
      "name": "Agent Launch QA Sprint",
      "status": "validating",
      "buyer": "Indie AI product founders and small teams with a working agent, MCP server, or LLM workflow approaching launch.",
      "offer": "A 48-hour, 25-case launch test, prioritized defect report, and one agreed repair patch.",
      "price": {"amount": 149, "currency": "USD", "billing_model": "fixed"},
      "discovery": "GitHub Pages and public GitHub intake; Contra or Upwork only after owner connection.",
      "payment_rail": "Contra guest checkout after qualified purchase intent and owner verification.",
      "payment_status": "inactive_validation_only",
      "offer_url": "https://github.com/vadim-koenen/autonomous-founder-agent/blob/main/offers/agent-launch-qa-sprint/OFFER.md",
      "interest_url": "https://github.com/vadim-koenen/autonomous-founder-agent/issues/new?template=revenue-experiment-interest.yml"
    },
    {
      "role": "asset",
      "opportunity_id": "opp-agent-launch-gate",
      "name": "Agent Launch Gate",
      "status": "validating",
      "buyer": "Indie AI builders who need a repeatable launch decision without purchasing a full service.",
      "offer": "A 25-case launch-gate pack with scoring rules, report schema, and regression checklist.",
      "price": {"amount": 39, "currency": "USD", "billing_model": "founding_license"},
      "discovery": "GitHub Pages free sample and public GitHub interest intake.",
      "payment_rail": "Contra digital-product checkout after owner verification and three qualified interest signals.",
      "payment_status": "inactive_validation_only",
      "sample_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/products/agent-launch-gate/free-sample/cases.sample.json"
    },
    {
      "role": "frontier",
      "opportunity_id": "opp-x402-opportunity-pulse",
      "name": "Agent Opportunity Pulse",
      "status": "validating",
      "buyer": "Agent builders and x402 service operators who need normalized ecosystem comparisons.",
      "offer": "A machine-readable snapshot of x402 categories ranked by public demand and listing-quality signals.",
      "price": {"amount": 0.25, "currency": "USDC", "billing_model": "per_snapshot"},
      "discovery": "GitHub Pages free sample and public x402 ecosystem targets.",
      "payment_rail": "x402 only after recurring demand and an owner-configured dedicated project wallet.",
      "payment_status": "inactive_validation_only",
      "sample_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/frontier/opportunity-pulse/sample.json"
    }
  ],
  "revenue": {
    "ledger_url": "https://vadim-koenen.github.io/autonomous-founder-agent/data/revenue_ledger.json",
    "currency": "USD",
    "verified_transactions": 0,
    "gross_revenue": 0.0,
    "net_revenue": 0.0,
    "physical_form_fund": 0.0,
    "owner_funds_spent": 0.0,
    "verification_rule": "Only a completed transaction with a unique ID, verification reference, verification timestamp, and positive gross amount counts."
  },
  "payment_policy": {
    "active_rails": [],
    "human_checkout_config_status": "pending_offer_specific_validation",
    "agent_native_payment_status": "inactive_until_demand_and_wallet_setup",
    "provider_selection_rule": "Select a rail only after defining the offer, buyer, transaction shape, and channel obligations.",
    "no_private_credentials_in_repository": true
  },
  "historical_decisions": [
    {
      "offer": "Agent-to-Agent Commerce Starter Kit",
      "price": "$19",
      "decision": "rejected_as_primary_offer",
      "reason": "Abundant free official and open-source substitutes weakened the reason to pay for generic information."
    },
    {
      "offer": "x402 Endpoint Implementation Sprint",
      "decision": "not_selected_for_initial_portfolio",
      "reason": "It ranked below stronger current cash, asset, and frontier opportunities and remains eligible for future reassessment."
    }
  ],
  "authority": {
    "autonomous": ["public research", "opportunity scoring", "code and asset creation", "connected GitHub publishing", "public metric measurement", "internal experiment lifecycle decisions"],
    "preauthorized_when_connected": ["permitted marketplace publishing", "permitted commercial messaging", "approved checkout creation", "paid fulfillment", "agent-native receipt", "spending within a separately configured budget"],
    "human_identity_required": ["account opening", "KYC", "bank and tax data", "legal acceptance", "contracts", "access grants", "fund transfers", "physical-form purchase"]
  },
  "safety": {
    "no_private_keys": true,
    "no_api_secrets": true,
    "no_unverified_revenue": true,
    "no_owner_fund_spending_in_m3": true,
    "no_wallet_transactions_in_m3": true,
    "no_nft_minting_in_m3": true,
    "no_unconfigured_email_dm_post_or_ad_execution": true,
    "no_broker_or_trading_api": true,
    "no_strategy_category_lock": true
  },
  "last_updated": "2026-07-09"
}