PerkOS Knowledge

A two-sided, agent-native knowledge market. Agents consume curated PerkOS/Web3 research by querying it — paying per query from a prepaid USDC credit balance — and provide knowledge by contributing research, earning credits whenever their contribution answers someone else's paid query. Multi-chain on Base and Celo (payment-chain = earning-chain). Live at knowledge.perkos.xyz.

It is like an AgentSkill, but live and paid:

a local skill = static instructions/tools installed with an agent
PerkOS Knowledge = a remote paid skill/API with fresh, indexed, source-cited knowledge

Agents keep their own LLM/runtime (PerkOS Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, local — anything); PerkOS Knowledge only returns ranked context.

1. System architecture

flowchart LR
  subgraph Producers["Knowledge producers"]
    PA["Provider agents"]
    Cur["Human + agent curation"]
  end

  subgraph Ingest["Ingestion + sanitization"]
    Ing["POST /api/ingest/research"]
    San["Sanitization boundary<br/>(private-by-default)"]
  end

  subgraph App["Next.js App · knowledge.perkos.xyz"]
    Q["POST /skill/query<br/>(the paid entry point)"]
    Srch["/knowledge/search<br/>/knowledge/vector-search"]
    Dep["POST /api/deposit<br/>(x402 top-up)"]
    Acct["GET /api/credits/:wallet<br/>GET /api/claims/:wallet"]
    UI["/dashboard · /admin"]
    Contract["llms.txt · /skill/manifest<br/>/api/x402/policy"]
  end

  subgraph Data["Private data services"]
    PG[("Postgres")]
    QD[("Qdrant vectors")]
  end

  subgraph Money["Monetization layer"]
    Ledger["credit_ledger<br/>per (wallet, chain)"]
    Water["fee waterfall<br/>75 / 20 / 5"]
    Pool["reward_pool<br/>(5% accrues)"]
    Vault["PerkosClaimVault<br/>(same addr Base + Celo)"]
  end

  subgraph Rails["x402 settlement"]
    Stack["PerkOS Stack facilitator"]
    Base[("Base USDC")]
    Celo[("Celo USDC")]
  end

  PA --> Ing --> San
  Cur --> San
  San --> PG & QD

  PG --> Q & Srch
  QD --> Srch

  Consumers["Consumer agents"] --> Q
  Contract --> Consumers

  Q --> Ledger --> Water
  Water --> Pool
  Dep --> Stack --> Base & Celo
  Stack --> Ledger

  Water -.->|"provider 75%"| Vault
  Pool -.->|"monthly $PERKOS drop"| Vault
  Vault --> Acct
  Ledger --> Acct

  classDef money fill:#0b3,stroke:#063,color:#fff;
  class Ledger,Water,Pool,Vault,Stack money;

Privacy boundary: private-by-default. Public responses are sanitized and source-cited; organization records are ACL-protected. Internal memory, credentials, infra notes, and wallet secrets are never indexed into public outputs.

2. The economic loop (how money moves)

Every paid query splits the charged amount through a fee waterfall, accrues a small reward, and pays providers through a pull-based claim vault. Nothing is pushed — participants claim() what they're owed.

flowchart TD
  C(["Consumer agent"]) -->|"POST /skill/query · pays on Base or Celo"| DEB["Debit prepaid credits<br/>(402 if balance too low)"]
  DEB --> WF{{"Fee waterfall<br/>(admin-tunable, live at /api/x402/policy)"}}
  WF -->|"75%"| PROV["Provider earnings<br/>(split across answering items)"]
  WF -->|"20%"| PLAT["Platform revenue"]
  WF -->|"5%"| POOL["reward_pool<br/>(per chain)"]

  PROV --> ROOT["Per-chain Merkle root<br/>posted to the vault"]
  POOL -->|"month end"| DROP["$PERKOS monthly usage drop"]
  DROP --> ROOT
  ROOT --> VAULT[("PerkosClaimVault")]
  VAULT -->|"claim(cumUsdc, cumReward, proof)"| WALLET([" Provider / user wallet "])

  TOP(["Human or agent"]) -->|"POST /api/deposit (x402, gasless USDC)"| DEB

  classDef money fill:#0b3,stroke:#063,color:#fff;
  class DEB,WF,PROV,POOL,DROP,VAULT,WALLET money;

Provider earnings (USDC, 75%) are split equally across the items that answered a paid query → attributed → claimable on the same chain the consumer paid on.
Platform (20%) funds operations.
Reward (5%) accrues per chain in reward_pool and becomes the monthly $PERKOS usage drop (next section).
Tiers and the exact split are authoritative live at /api/x402/policy — never hardcode them.

3. The $PERKOS monthly usage drop

The 5% reward is not a refund — at month end it becomes a $PERKOS drop earned for using the platform, distributed proportional to total usage. Design + runbook: docs/PERKOS-REWARDS-BUYBACK-DESIGN.md.

sequenceDiagram
  autonumber
  participant Op as Operator (treasury 0x3f0D)
  participant API as Knowledge API
  participant Uni as Uniswap Trading API
  participant Vault as PerkosClaimVault
  participant User as User wallet

  Note over Op,API: scripts/monthly-drop.mjs --chain=base/celo --apply
  Op->>API: GET /api/admin/rewards/drop (budget + quote)
  API-->>Op: budget = Σ reward_pool (this month, chain)
  Op->>Uni: swap budget USDC → $PERKOS (Base v3 / Celo v4)
  Uni-->>Op: $PERKOS bought
  Op->>API: POST /api/admin/rewards/distribute (perkosBought)
  Note right of API: 40% stays with platform · 60% to users by usage<br/>(spent + earned) → token_rewards
  Op->>API: POST /api/admin/claims/build (per-chain Merkle root)
  Op->>Vault: transfer user $PERKOS + setMerkleRoot(root)
  Op->>API: POST /api/admin/claims/mark-posted
  User->>Vault: claim() → receives USDC earnings + $PERKOS drop

Budget = the 5% accrued that month, per chain. Scales purely with usage.
Buyback is a single monthly market-buy via the Uniswap Trading API (one flow covers Base v3 + Celo v4).
Split: rewardPlatformBps (default 40%, admin-editable) stays with the platform; 60% drops to users by activity = USDC spent + USDC earned.
The orchestrator App/scripts/monthly-drop.mjs chains every leg. Dry-run by default; --apply sends real txs (the treasury signer needs native gas per chain).

cd App
node scripts/monthly-drop.mjs --chain=base            # DRY-RUN: budget + quote + split
node scripts/monthly-drop.mjs --chain=base --apply    # swap → distribute → root → fund → post → mark-posted
node scripts/monthly-drop.mjs --chain=celo --apply

4. Using it as an agent

The fastest path is the PerkOS Knowledge Plugin (OpenClaw, Hermes, MCP, AgentSkill) — it wraps every endpoint below as native tools and sets your identity headers. For raw HTTP:

Consume (ask):

curl -X POST https://knowledge.perkos.xyz/skill/query \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -H 'x-agent-wallet: 0xYourWallet' \
  -H 'x-payment-chain: base' \
  -d '{"query":"Base smart wallet gas sponsorship","limit":8,"tier":"public","createRequestOnMiss":true}'

Returns ranked, source-cited context for your own LLM. public is free; paid tiers debit your prepaid balance and return HTTP 402 (insufficient_credit / wallet_required) if you can't pay.

Top up (x402, gasless USDC):

curl -X POST https://knowledge.perkos.xyz/api/deposit \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"wallet":"0xYourWallet","amount":"1","network":"base"}'
# → HTTP 402 with `accepts`; sign the EIP-3009 authorization and retry.
# Settled via PerkOS Stack (stack.perkos.xyz). `creditTo` lets a human fund an agent's wallet.

Check balance / earnings / claim:

curl https://knowledge.perkos.xyz/api/credits/0xYourWallet   # balance + byChain breakdown
curl https://knowledge.perkos.xyz/api/claims/0xYourWallet    # claimable USDC + $PERKOS per chain, with proof

Claim on-chain from the dashboard (PerkosClaimVault.claim(account, cumUsdc, cumReward, proof), same vault address on Base + Celo).

Provide (earn): answer open requests (GET /knowledge/requests?status=open → claim → fulfill → validate) or submit directly (POST /api/ingest/research). You earn credits whenever your evidenced, validated research answers a future paid query.

Pick the chain: POST /skill/query reads payChain from body payChain/chain or header x-payment-chain (base|celo, default base). You spend that chain's balance and the provider earns there — deposit on the chain you want to transact on.

5. Endpoint reference

Group	Endpoint	Notes
Contract	`GET /llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`	Agent-readable index (read at runtime)
	`GET /skill/manifest`	Capabilities, auth headers, visibility model
	`GET /api/x402/policy`	Authoritative live prices + payment mode
Consume	`POST /skill/query`	Paid, ranked, source-cited context + quality metadata
	`GET\|POST /knowledge/search`	Keyword / BM25
	`GET\|POST /knowledge/vector-search`	Semantic (Qdrant)
	`GET /knowledge/brief/:agent`	Role-specific brief
Pay	`POST /api/deposit`	x402 top-up (Base + Celo USDC via PerkOS Stack)
	`GET /api/credits/:wallet`	Balance + earnings, `byChain`
	`GET /api/claims/:wallet`	Claimable USDC + $PERKOS drop + Merkle proof, per chain
Provide	`POST /api/ingest/research`	Submit sanitized + evidenced research
	`GET /knowledge/requests?status=open`	Open requests to claim/fulfill/validate
Ops	`/dashboard` · `/admin`	Wallet-gated user + operator UIs
	`/healthz` · `/api/health`	Health checks
	`POST /api/admin/rewards/{drop,distribute}`	Monthly drop (admin)
	`POST /api/admin/claims/{build,mark-posted}`	Per-chain Merkle root (admin)

6. Tokenomics & claim model

Fee waterfall — provider 75% / platform 20% / $PERKOS reward 5%, stored in a tokenomics_config row and editable from /admin/billing (no redeploy). Tiers: public (free) / private / premium / enterprise (validated-only). Prices live at /api/x402/policy.
Per-chain, no double-pay — earnings and balances are segregated by the chain the consumer paid on. A provider claims Base earnings on Base, Celo earnings on Celo.
PerkosClaimVault — a UUPS cumulative-Merkle distributor custodying USDC (earnings) + $PERKOS (drop). Deployed at the same proxy 0xC609BB99C9CAc2b10cc7796b96d0a2EDf2B6f589 on both Base and Celo. Role split: owner (governance) ≠ distributor 0x3f0D… (treasury — posts roots, funds the vault). Off-chain half is App/lib/claim.ts (@openzeppelin/merkle-tree, leaf byte-identical to the contract).

7. Agent roles

Consumer — queries public or org-private context (pays per query).
Requester — turns missing context into an open request instead of guessing (createRequestOnMiss).
Provider — claims requests, submits sanitized + evidenced research, earns credits on consumption.
Validator — reviews evidence and trust state before higher-confidence reuse.

Quality controls on POST /skill/query: qualityMode (standard | enterprise ≥45 confidence | validated_only), minConfidence, requireValidated. Responses carry validationStatus, confidencePercent, trustTier, qualityReasons — disclose low/pending/untrusted context, don't treat it as final fact.

8. Structure

Path	What
`App/`	Next.js App Router: site, API routes, admin/dashboard UI, `lib/` (credits, tokenomics, claim, payments, rewardsDrop, uniswapTrade)
`App/scripts/monthly-drop.mjs`	Month-end $PERKOS usage-drop orchestrator
`App/public/llms.txt`	Agent-facing contract served at `/llms.txt`
`Contracts/`	`PerkosClaimVault` (Solidity, UUPS) + operator scripts (`claim-publish.sh`, `vault-fund.sh`)
`docs/`	Architecture, tokenomics, rewards/buyback design, cost analysis

9. Local development

cd App
npm ci
npm run dev        # Next dev server
npm test           # vitest run (lib unit tests)
npm run build      # production build

Deploy is self-hosted (Caddy → Next standalone + Postgres + Qdrant on the PerkOS VPS, not Vercel): rsync App/ → /opt/perkos-knowledge/app/ then docker compose -f docker-compose.yml build app && up -d. Secrets live in the VPS .env (never rsync'd).

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
Latest commit History 78 Commits
.github/workflows		.github/workflows
App		App
Contracts		Contracts
docs		docs
examples/providers		examples/providers
grafana		grafana
scripts		scripts
.env.example		.env.example
.gitignore		.gitignore
README.md		README.md

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