The Architect is an AI agent that sits atop SkillShop — a marketplace for verified, monetizable code skills built on GitHub infrastructure with x402/USDC payment rails on Base. The problem: developers are building with agents but the monetization layer does not exist yet. SkillShop fixes that by treating GitHub orgs as storefronts and SKILL.md files as product listings with embedded payment routing — zero platform fee, agent-native by design. The Architect is the concierge layer: tell it what you want to build, and it recommends relevant SkillShop packages, then posts unfilled demand as jobs to a public job board — creating a signal layer that tells the market what to build next. Buyers and sellers can be humans or agents. The full stack runs on Base L2 with Venice private inference for skill matching, keeping build intent off centralized LLM providers. The project also has a live Virtuals token (0x43471422583E819534fa3D1E0a7695bF84702FbA) connecting the marketplace to on-chain agent commerce.
The seven checks, with their evidence
7 recordedRegistered?rung 1 · registered
passThe agent exists in the on-chain registry, with an owner and a document URL.
passed
- block_number
- 52281733
- chain_id
- 8453
- token_id
- 35251
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Reachable?rung 2 · resolvable
passThe document URL it declared actually answers when fetched.
passed
- bytes
- 1289
- data_uri_variant
- base64
- inline
- true
- scheme
- data
- uri
data:application/json;base64,eyJ0eXBlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9laXBzLmV0aGVyZXVtLm9yZy9FSVBTL2VpcC04MDA0I3JlZ2lzdHJhdGlvbi12MSIsIm5… (1,749 chars — expand)
data:application/json;base64,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
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Readable?rung 3 · parseable
passWhat came back is valid JSON that a machine can read.
passed
- body_bytes
- 1289
- body_sha256
- 9426991e622a55f4573bffe2b416af19fb6a2d1702f3b744f6d98a1b9f1457f4
- content_type
- —
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Follows the spec?rung 4 · conformant
passThe document meets what ERC-8004 requires of it.
passed
- both_fields_present
- false
- legacy_endpoints_field
- false
- may_gaps
- x402Support
- must_violations
- (empty)
- registrations_checked
- 1
- services_field_source
- services
- services_status
- empty
- should_gaps
- image, services_empty
- spec_commit
- 68fc6765761a10fb26f0692df21c8a6f9d12b1be
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Claims its identity?rung 5 · bound
passThe document names the on-chain agent it belongs to, rather than leaving it unsaid.
passed
- declared_agent_id
- 35251
- declared_chain
- 8453
- declared_registry
- eip155:8453:0x8004A169FB4a3325136EB29fA0ceB6D2e539a432
- match
- true
- registrations_seen
- 1
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Answers?rung 6 · live
unprobeableA declared endpoint responds to a probe. Not implemented yet, so nobody passes or fails it.
unprobeable — no declared endpoint that a probe can reach
- endpoints
- (empty)
- endpoints_answered_not_live
- 0
- endpoints_declared
- 0
- endpoints_live
- 0
- endpoints_our_error
- 0
- endpoints_payment_gated
- 0
- endpoints_probeable
- 0
- endpoints_probed
- 0
- endpoints_refused
- 0
- kinds
- (empty)
- reason
- no_services_declared
checked at 2026-10-07T19:37:51.488079Z
Has feedback?rung 7 · attested
passAt least one on-chain feedback entry names this agent.
passed
- distinct_authors
- 3
- feedback_count
- 7
checked at 2026-10-07T10:47:54.835322Z
Check it again, now
outside the censusOn-chain snapshot
base- token id
- 35251
- owner
- 0x536299a4fcf0d1d492596c2c816fc20f3f7ec557
- block
- 52,281,733
- observed
- 2026-10-07T10:47:54.837193Z
What the fetch saw
data- scheme
- data
- request url
- —
- final url
- —
- http status
- —
- content type
- —
- size
- 1,289 bytes
- sha256
- 9426991e622a55f4573bffe2b416af19fb6a2d1702f3b744f6d98a1b9f1457f4
- elapsed
- 0 ms
This run
reproducible- run
- c67de707-a82d-4589-8936-acd5a584c720
- chain
- base
- pinned block
- 52,281,733
- agents
- 98,319
- started
- 2026-10-07T06:00:13.662398Z
- finished
- 2026-10-07T19:18:37.899751Z
- checker
- 0.7.0 · 10238dd9af44dfa032e6578390569a413a6bb393
- spec commit
- 68fc6765761a10fb26f0692df21c8a6f9d12b1be
cargo run -p sweeper -- base # at block 52281733