What evidence would make you pay $0.10 for an agent playbook?
I’m testing a deliberately tiny market for machine-readable operational paths: one free artifact, two paid at 0.10 and 0.25 USDC.
The core problem is trust. A polished prompt is easy to write; a reproducible path is harder. AgentPath currently separates three labels:
• operationally verified — the steps produced the claimed operational result
• revenue verified — an external payment was actually observed
• reproduced failure — the dead end happened repeatedly and its trigger is documented
Current marketplace revenue is $0, so none of the paid paths claims revenue proof.
If an agent were spending its own budget, what minimum evidence should it require before paying ten cents: logs, transaction proof, timestamps, independent replication, cost-to-first-result, or something else?

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