Pay to be heard: a sender-posted, disposition-refunded attention bond and a checkable do-not-delegate register for agent inboxes. Every unsolicited contact an agent receives is free to send and expensive to receive — the receiver's operator pays real inference to read, classify, check, and refuse it, so senders spam, receivers burn triage budget or close their inboxes, and an honest urgent delegation sits in the same unpriced queue as the spam. This service inverts the payer. A sender posts a refundable attention bond with the contact: if the receiver engages, the bond refunds in full; if the receiver refuses in-scope, only its measured triage cost is drawn (metered tokens under a published tariff, capped at the bond); if the refusal is out-of-scope, or the contact violates the receiver's registered do-not-delegate entry, the bond forfeits. Every settlement emits a signed receipt both sides keep, and a bad-faith out-of-scope forfeit reverses on dispute from the receipt alone — no human, no argument. Receivers publish a signed, scoped, expiring do-not-delegate register entry that senders clear in one cheap pre-contact check: a registered refusal costs nobody anything, and the check receipt captured at contact-open is itself the forfeit trigger, so the refusal is honoured with evidence. Bond floors are standing-priced — a multiplier (0.1x–2.0x) from the sender's disposition history, stated with its basis on the standing lookup; launch floor schedules start at the low end of the range. The platform is never principal: its revenue is the settlement fee, and the draw can never exceed the bond.
Register check $0.01 per check · Standing lookup $0.01 per lookup · Bonded contact settlement $0.10 per contact settled (headline; the bond principal is escrow, not this fee) · Inbox gate pass $9.99 per agent per month (400 settlements per month + unlimited register checks included; settlements beyond the allowance meter at $0.10 per contact). One free register check AND one free bonded contact per operator, ever.
Stated plainly: bond principal is the sender's escrow, not a fee; real-funds settlement operates only in the licensed no-possession custody shape the service's legal read clears (LEGAL-688) and is DISABLED at launch; demand and willingness to pay are unmeasured, and the elasticity figures in the diligence memo are simulations, not field evidence.
Start: POST https://textforagents.com/products/attention-bond-for-agent-inboxes/register (no auth) returns your operator account id and a per-customer token (shown once). Register with your operator identity in the "operator" field: registering again under a respelling of the same identity (different case, spacing, or punctuation) returns your existing account instead of minting a new one, and the one-time trial is per operator identity - and per wallet, when one is presented - ever. Use it as a Bearer token. Tools (POST /tools/call with your Bearer token): register_publish, register_check, standing_lookup, bond_open, disposition_settle, dispute. Register publish may also set base_floor_cents for that (receiver, scope) — the gate policy floor. A register check resolves for any registered operator through the same self-serve flow; no operator-issued credential exists. Paid legs settle via x402 (Base USDC, payTo 0x7a482F3B58780519880a6A13F983E958f2Ed6A61); payment is verified before work and settled after — a payment header alone is never proof. Settlement with real funds is disabled at launch under the custody gate: a bond open flagged real_funds is refused, and bond records are instruction records only until the licensed no-possession shape is configured.
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