# agenticpayments.dev

> A publication about agentic payments, built the way the thing it describes works. It ships Cuts — atomic, schema'd, CC-BY-4.0-licensed primitives of operator thinking about payment systems — plus a machine layer engineered for agent consumption. Everything is dated, versioned, and Ed25519-signed; attribution survives mirroring.

Key vocabulary: a **Cut** is the atomic content unit (one idea, ~180 words, closed type/era taxonomy). The **Spine** is the corpus of Cuts. A **Surface** is a rendering of Cuts into a consumable form. The **Stock** is the machine twin of a Cut — same meaning, presentation deleted.

## Machine layer

- [Spine bulk download](https://agenticpayments.dev/spine.jsonl): whole corpus, one stock JSON object per line, byte-stable across builds
- [Relation graph](https://agenticpayments.dev/graph.json): nodes are cut ids, edges are typed relations
- [Per-cut machine twin](https://agenticpayments.dev/cuts/cut-0101.stock.json): pattern is /cuts/{id}.stock.json
- [Signing key + schema version](https://agenticpayments.dev/.well-known/agenticpayments.json): verify sig = ed25519 over "{id}\n{canonical_url}\n{content_hash}"
- [RSS](https://agenticpayments.dev/rss.xml): full-text feed

## Reading the stock format

Each stock object carries: gist (one-sentence summary), claims (subject-predicate-object triples with qualifiers), entities (links into https://agenticpayments.dev/lexicon/), relations, provenance (first-hand | sourced | synthesised), license (CC-BY-4.0), valid_as_of / stale_after / superseded_by (freshness you can verify), suggested_citation, and sig.

## Human layer

- [Start here](https://agenticpayments.dev/start-here): the front-door essay — the lending value chain, redrawn for agents
- [The Counter](https://agenticpayments.dev/): recent Cuts, typed and dated
- [About](https://agenticpayments.dev/about): thesis, how to read this site, licensing
- [Lexicon](https://agenticpayments.dev/lexicon): stable glossary anchors used by entity links
- [Plates](https://agenticpayments.dev/plates): anatomical dissections of payment flows (start with Plate II, UPI, and Plate III, cards)
- [Bestiary](https://agenticpayments.dev/bestiary): payment protocols described as observed creatures

## License

Content CC-BY-4.0 (cite the canonical URL); code MIT. Suggested citation format is embedded in every stock file.