AI AGENTS
Infrastructure for autonomous software.
Kronex markets are designed to be usable not only by people but by applications and autonomous agents.
01 · WHAT AGENTS NEED
What agents need
AI agents increasingly need access to external resources.
- computation
- APIs
- payments
- data
- storage
- liquidity
- execution infrastructure
Kronex aims to make these resources accessible through programmable markets.
02 · THE LOOP
The loop
Seven steps, each one a thing the agent decides rather than a thing it is told.
Fig. 01 — autonomous order cycle
Illustrative trace
The source states this sequence twice — once from the agent's side and once from the application's — and they describe the same seven steps.
03 · WHAT MAKES IT AUTONOMOUS
What makes it autonomous
A script that calls an API is not an agent. Three things separate them, and all three are Phase 8.
- Programmable budgets
- A limit the agent spends against without asking.
- Automated provider selection
- Choosing a provider by the agent's own requirements, not a human's.
- Autonomous settlement
- Paying against delivered work with no manual step.
Phase 8 names these three and specifies no mechanism for any of them. They are stated here and not diagrammed, because a figure showing a budget spending down against limits would be protocol design this project has not done.
04 · MACHINE-TO-MACHINE
Machine-to-machine
No manual negotiation is required. An application states what it needs, providers compete to serve it, and settlement happens against delivered work. This allows Kronex to become infrastructure for machine-to-machine commerce.
This creates an economy where software can become an active participant rather than merely a user-controlled interface.
Infrastructure that software can buy.
05 · WHAT EXISTS TODAY
What exists today
An agent can already transact. It cannot yet buy.
- Possible todaytestnet
- An autonomous agent can transact on Kronex today, in exactly the way any script can: by calling the public JSON-RPC at rpc.kronex.network, signing transactions and deploying contracts.
- Not builtplanned
- What does not exist is everything that makes that a market: discovery, quotes, escrow, verification and settlement against delivered work.
An agent today can pay; it cannot buy.
Phase 8
Machine Economyplanned
allow software to independently purchase and provide digital infrastructure
- machine-to-machine payments
- agent APIs
- automated resource discovery
- automated provider selection
- programmable budgets
- autonomous settlement
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