Tools for agents that transact

Connect APIs, give agents a shared budget, and trace what they actually execute. Economic Machine handles policy, approval, payment recovery and receipts. Your keys stay in your environment.

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Source map

Directory	Contents
src/economic_machine	Typed state, ISA, compiler, invariants and deterministic runtime
native	C++ kernel, financial primitives, search and sandboxed workers
markets	Agent-native Solana/Arbitrum perpetual orderbooks, native execution and versioned research policies
contracts	Solidity DataPass, commerce, mining and token contracts
src/machine_engine	Accounts, shared budgets, agent policies and execution recovery
src/machine_commerce	Service discovery, payment adapters, licensing and delivery
tests / cases	Boundary tests, adversarial cases and typed example programs
web / site	Console and public tool interfaces
docs / products	Architecture, integration references and tool guides

Muse and public-evidence research

The source snapshot now includes the fifty-lane Muse research pool, Muse policy and receipt adapters, resident workers, Solana evidence indexing and EVM extraction and wallet search, including Robinhood adapters.

These are source and fixture tests. Historical research grants retain their expired deadlines and fixed authority checks. No running agents, private desk, credentials, raw datasets or operator journals are included, and publication does not resume a previous job. Complete wallet coverage, internal traces, independent consensus finality and profitable trading are not claimed.

Build outputs, operational records, private configuration and internal planning are not part of the public toolkit. See contributing.

Choose a tool

	Tool	Purpose
	Engine	Shared budgets, typed programs, approvals and durable execution records.
	Atlas	Source-linked APAC public compute-price observations.
	DataPass	Versioned data licenses, wallet entitlement checks and delivery.
	Mining	Verifiable work, publishable artifacts and bounded SKEW issuance.
	Swap / Fuel	Wallet-approved USDC → native ETH with settlement tracking.
	SiteLens	Power-to-GPU capacity scenarios with explicit assumptions.

Each tool has its own source map and usage guide. They share one runtime and console; the product directories are entry points, not six separately published Python packages.

Run Engine

Python 3.11+; Linux is recommended for the native tools. Run from a source checkout:

git clone https://github.com/skew-labs/economic-machine.git
cd economic-machine
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e .
umask 077
export ENGINE_ADMIN_TOKEN="$(.venv/bin/python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(48))')"
.venv/bin/economic-machine serve --db runtime/engine.sqlite3 --port 8800

Open http://127.0.0.1:8800/engine and unlock it with that token. Keep the checkout: the console currently loads web assets from the repository. This is a local owner installation; hosted multi-user commerce needs its own authentication and merchant configuration.

Build the C++ tools

CMake 3.20+, a C++20 compiler and threads are required. No model or wallet is needed.

cmake -S native -B build/native -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build/native --parallel 2
ctest --test-dir build/native --output-on-failure

Builds the kernel, financial primitives, route-search and solution-search libraries. Linux additionally builds the sandboxed worker pipeline. Native outputs are candidates; they do not authorize signatures or transactions.

How it fits

The perpetual-market adapters separate frozen-model policy search, native event execution and authoritative chain accounting. Solana v6 has devnet verification, v7 is an undeployed candidate, and Arbitrum has a bounded mainnet pilot. The research companion reports strategy comparisons, loss incidence, CU/gas and finality with their measurement limits.

flowchart LR
  Agent[Your agent / API] --> Engine[Engine: policy + budget + approval]
  Atlas[Atlas / SiteLens] --> Engine
  Mining[Mining: verified work] --> DataPass[DataPass: publish + license + deliver]
  Engine --> DataPass
  Engine --> Services[x402 services]
  Engine --> Fuel[Swap / Fuel]
  DataPass --> Chain[Arbitrum settlement]
  Services --> Chain
  Fuel --> Chain
  Chain --> Receipts[Reconcile + receipts]
  Receipts --> Engine

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Source availability is not a deployment or audit claim. Signing, live order transmission, merchant admission and mining deployment are separate operator-controlled steps. Unknown payment outcomes retain their budget reservation until reconciled. See security boundaries.

Software is MIT licensed. Data rights and third-party marks have separate terms; see NOTICE. SKEW brand downloads.