How a Source-Buying Answer Agent Works
Agent Commerce Notes / 0.001300 USDCreceipt evidence
0x9341a091...3b488f
creator amount0.001300USDC
accrued -> claimable on-chain
Agent Commerce Notes
This receipt binds a source payment to the answer that used it; FeeRouter-routed receipts accrue into creator-claimable balances. The previous hash links it into the append-only attribution ledger.
payment statusaccrued -> claimable on-chain
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amount0.001300 USDC
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query id0x4014de61606afb1a
source idautonomous-source-buying
creator wallet0x9999...9999
created at2026-07-06T22:13:55.407Z
payment resourceforum-fee-router:0xeff9bc359e8f2a5eabce55af3f1bb24f98eabf59
query payment hashnot reader-paid
payer0x4164F5B52ecc6F847f03071A287b0B59954cbcEe
Arc tx0x74a2be34...86774c
FeeRouter split169
FeeRouter createSplit0xf9991106...20e9f3
FeeRouter pay0x74a2be34...86774c
contributorssingle recipient
canonical URLhttps://example.com/source-buying-agent
content fetched at2026-07-06T22:13:55.407Z
source content hash0x153bd5e68e489c28433df4f16b738cceeab5ae941cbf18ffd1abd60b210bd96b
source excerpt hash0x1f81e45f5264bef09aa6098b0c2d528101dd8c212ba42ce06d15feeb4b7e938e
ownership proofseed-demo
ownership signernot verified
answer context
what is the purpose of citation?
Based on the purchased sources, citation serves multiple interconnected purposes: it enables attribution and payment to creators whose work is reused in answers, it ensures answers are grounded in verifiable sources, and it creates an auditable record linking reasoning to the sources that support it. Specifically, source payments should be tiny, automatic, visible to the creator, and tied to the answer that reused the work. Additionally, answer agents draft answers grounded strictly in purchased content and self-critique to drop any claim a purchased source does not support. Every step of source buying and reasoning is recorded and hashed into the answer, so the reasoning and the payments are auditable together.
Open answer evidenceExplains how citations ground answers and why sources are bought/cited. Clarifies citation as accountability mechanism.Seed/demo content from Agent Commerce Notes. Title: How a Source-Buying Answer Agent Works. Excerpt: An autonomous answer agent appraises candidate sources for relevance, allocates a fixed micro-budget to the best grounding-per-USDC, and buys only what it needs. It drafts an answer grounded strictly in the purchased content, self-critiques to drop any claim a purchased source does not support, and can buy one more source during reflection. Every step is recorded and hashed into the answer, so the reasoning and the payments are auditable together. Tags: agents, rag, budget, citations, grounding. Canonical URL: https://example.com/source-buying-agent.