The unit · the meter · the rules
It's a lease with a mileage cap. Here is what one “mile” is, how we picked the cap, and how you check the count yourself. It is sold for use — not as an investment.
1 · What one attestation is
One attestation is one signed receipt over one bounded piece of agent work — a commit, a completed task, a discrete decision — recording where that action landed relative to the rules the agent was given. A simple action burns one; a complicated one burns several.
You don't take the count on faith. Every receipt recomputes byte-for-byte on your own machine — npx thetacog-mcp prove-rice --check — and a stranger with zero trust in us gets the identical verdict. We bill a thing you can audit without asking us.
2 · Why 10,000 — and the honest weakness in that number
We don't have a fleet to estimate from, so we didn't estimate. We measured the only agentic operation we can actually see: our own. Over the trailing 90 days this repository sustained 56.5 attestable commits a day — about 20,625 a year. So a hard-working agent burns roughly two agent-years per calendar year, and we set the cap at about half our own burn.
The sample size is one. We are telling you that up front because you would find it anyway, and because a confident number we invented would be worth less to you than a modest one we can show our work on. As real fleets come online we publish the observed burn distribution and true the cap up — for future licenses only. A license you already hold keeps the caps it was minted with.
That grandfathering is a consumer protection — we can't retroactively shrink what you bought. It is not a reason to buy early, and we don't market it as one.
3 · Three things this is not
Not insurance. We are not an insurer, we bear no risk, and we pay no claims. We sell the signal; someone else sells the policy. A carrier may choose to underwrite against our record — that is their product and their risk.
Not an investment. A license is sold for use. We make no representation that it will be worth more later, we cap what it can be re-registered for, and we do not run a secondary market. If you are buying it to flip it, you are buying the wrong thing.
Not a claim that your agent was right. Whether an AI decision was correct is undecidable in the general case — that is Rice's theorem, and no vendor escapes it. We record only where the action landed against its rules. Our current miss rate on adversarially reworded out-of-lane actions is about 30%, published because it is true.
These mirror docs/legal/agent-year-license-terms.md (v0.3). Plain English, no asterisks.
Check it before you buy anything
Don't trust the page. Run the thing: npx thetacog-mcp attest-demo returns the same signed coordinate every time, on your hardware, with no model in the loop. Then read the pricing and decide.
Terms are a counsel-review draft and are not an offer to sell anything until cleared.
