SKILL ASSET PROTOCOL

A MANIFESTO FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY OF AUTHORED WORK

“THE PROOF”

You encoded what you know into an artifact that works without you. Under the old default — “work for hire” — that artifact is confiscated at the moment of its creation. 100 for them. 0 for you. We reject the default.

INDEX — TEN PRINCIPLES

“THE TEN”

PRINCIPLE 01/10

“YOUR EXPERTISE IS AN ASSET.”

Not a donation. The moment you encode it, it becomes property. Yours.

PRINCIPLE 02/10

“THE ARTIFACT IS NEVER HANDED OVER.”

The world gets the output. The work stays home.

PRINCIPLE 03/10

“NO CREDENTIAL, NO RUN.”

Payment is not a request. It is the key in the ignition.

PRINCIPLE 04/10

“THE WIELDER IS A WALLET.”

Not a platform. Not a harness. Anything that can pay can invoke. No gatekeepers.

PRINCIPLE 05/10

“PROVENANCE IS MEMORY.”

Every fork declares its ancestry, on a ledger no one can edit.

PRINCIPLE 06/10

“THE CLAIM IS CO-HELD, NOT SURRENDERED.”

100/0 was a choice, not a law of nature. We choose different splits.

PRINCIPLE 07/10

“SECRECY IS NOT THE MOAT.”

Evolution is. A clone of yesterday’s work competes with what you ship tomorrow.

PRINCIPLE 08/10

“SAY THE QUIET PART ON-CHAIN.”

Eventually consistent. Unvalidated. Unmeasured. Honesty is a feature, printed on the receipt.

PRINCIPLE 09/10

“THE CHAIN IS PLUMBING.”

Nobody should type a token ticker to get paid for their work.

PRINCIPLE 10/10

“PROOF OVER PROMISE.”

A manifesto without receipts is a poster. Scroll down. The receipts are real.

SECTION — EVIDENCE

“PROOF”

First real-network run, 2026-07-12. One wallet. Two asset classes. Every cent reconciled on a public chain.

“LEDGER” — EVERY CENT RECONCILED

claude/plan $0.041 · skill/optimizing-claude-code-prompts $0.25 → creator $0.24375 / treasury $0.00625

payment overhead ≈ 781ms per call. 402 → sign → settle.

SHIPPING LABEL / CUSTOMS FORM — Nº 402

“DO IT YOURSELF”

This page is not a brochure. It is a metered endpoint. Pay $0.25 in testnet USDC and the hosted skill runs for you — you get the output, never the skill.

“MONOPOLY MONEY” — this runs on Base Sepolia, a practice network. The USDC is free from the faucet. Nothing real is at risk.

“FREE MONEY” → FAUCET.CIRCLE.COM ↗

HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS — 4 STEPS

  1. CONNECT A WALLET
  2. GET FREE TESTNET USDC
  3. PAY $0.25 — SIGN, DON’T SEND
  4. RECEIVE OUTPUT. NEVER THE SKILL.

FIELD 05 REQUIRED — EMPTY PARCELS DO NOT SHIP.

TRACKING — STATE MACHINE

  1. IDLE
  2. CONNECTING
  3. PAYING
  4. RUNNING
  5. DONE
  6. ERROR

STATUS: AWAITING INSTRUCTION. NOTHING SIGNED, NOTHING SENT.