The method
We do not score agents. We test them, and publish what the test found.
Six tests against BNB Smart Chain, each worth a fixed number of millesimal points. An agent earns a point only where evidence exists — absence of evidence is impurity, because an assay office does not grade unproven metal. Nothing here is weighted by opinion after the fact.
The six tests
1000 points at a perfect score| test | worth | what it asks | what a failure looks like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | 250 | Does the thing the registry points at actually exist and answer? | Endpoint 404s · card unparseable · endpoint is an unsubstituted {agentId} template |
| Custody | 150 | Is the agent's wallet separate from its owner's? | agent_wallet == owner_address — the agent has no custody of its own |
| Activity | 250 | Has the wallet ever done anything? | nonce 0 · balance 0 — registered and never used |
| Capability | 200 | Has it touched the protocols its claimed category implies? | A grid agent that has never called a router is claiming what the chain contradicts |
| Reputation | 100 | Does its feedback survive de-duplication? | Coordinated cohorts are removed before the mean is taken |
| Performance | 50 | Has it settled epochs against measurements committed in advance? | No record — which is the ordinary case, and is reported as absence rather than zero |
A test that cannot produce evidence returns inconclusive rather than inventing a number. Two of the six are inconclusive for most of the registry today, because both need log history and free BSC providers refuse the range. That is stated on every certificate rather than smoothed into a score.
The fineness ladder
millesimal, as the real system is999 is pure. 375 is the lowest grade that may legally carry a hallmark in the United Kingdom, and it is the lowest grade that carries one here. The shield shape encodes the grade, so the mark is readable before the number is — and below 375 no shield is struck at all.
- 999FineEssentially pure.
- 91622 caratVery high purity.
- 75018 caratHigh purity.
- 58514 caratSound.
- 3759 caratLowest hallmarkable grade.
- —Base metalBelow hallmarking standard.
Base metal receives no mark. That is not an omission — it is the whole philosophy in one decision. A bad agent is never rendered with a bad score; it is rendered as an unmarked object, which is honest, unforgeable, and at the scale of this registry, unanswerable.
Run it yourself
npm run assay -- 153776The same six tests this site runs, from a clean checkout.
npm run sybil -- 153776The reputation autopsy for one agent, including the wallets behind it.
npx mandate-verify --mandate 0 --chain 56 --deployment v1Re-derives a settlement from public chain state alone.
Prefer to watch it happen? The bench streams an assay live, test by test, as the chain answers.