CRI: A Multi-Factor Reputation System for Autonomous Agent Commerce
The Composite Reliability Index — a 10-component score designed specifically for machine-to-machine commerce at micropayment scale.
Agentic Economy Research Series
Four preprints on the
economy of agents.
Original research on how autonomous agents will transact, settle, and build trust — covering reputation, taxonomy, the Oracle Problem, and the diagnostics of a pre-infrastructural field.
Two Economies, Not One — A Taxonomy of the Agentic Economy and the Case for Settlement Neutrality
Maps 51 published definitions into five categories and two fault lines — and defines the five properties a neutral settlement layer must satisfy.
The Oracle Problem in Agent Commerce
Why semantic truth verification is computationally intractable — and the two-layer architecture that replaces it with incentives.
Fifty-One Maps, No Territory
A diagnostic analysis of definitional divergence in the agentic economy (2021–2026) — and the four falsifiable tests that will force convergence.
Companion resources
The papers cross-reference an open corpus of 57 definitions, a protocol comparison matrix, and a working glossary. All CC BY-SA 4.0.
57 Definitions →
Every published definition of "agentic economy" from 2021 to today, with classification.
Timeline →
How the field arrived here — five years, three waves, 40+ sources.
Protocol Matrix →
ACP, A2A, MCP, x402, MPP and the rest — what each actually does.
Glossary →
Working definitions for every term the papers rely on.