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  <title>Atinamos Labs Research</title>
  <subtitle>Public working papers, research notes and experiment reports on AI agents, verification and autonomous commerce.</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-09-16T18:00:00+01:00</updated>
  <author><name>Atinamos Labs</name></author>
  <entry>
    <title>Autonomous Buyer Proof #3: discovery, evidence, policy and payment</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/proof3-autonomous-buyer/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/proof3-autonomous-buyer/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>An Atinamos-operated buyer independently discovered external machine services, checked exact-route viability, queried published evidence, applied a fixed procurement policy, selected a seller without human seller selection, paid 0.001 USDC and exactly validated the purchased result.</summary>
    <category term="autonomous buyer" />
    <category term="x402" />
    <category term="buyer policy" />
    <category term="service discovery" />
    <category term="evidence-informed procurement" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Deterministic Assurance: IBANforge IBAN validation</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/ibanforge-deterministic-assurance/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/ibanforge-deterministic-assurance/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>Two paid external x402 controls settled on Base and the returned valid field matched independently computed ISO 13616 MOD-97 expectations for one valid and one deliberately invalid IBAN fixture.</summary>
    <category term="IBAN validation" />
    <category term="ISO 13616" />
    <category term="MOD-97" />
    <category term="x402" />
    <category term="deterministic verification" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Unattended generic Assurance: Keyronne JSON Repair</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/keyronne-unattended-generic-assurance/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/keyronne-unattended-generic-assurance/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T17:50:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T17:50:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>A bounded production experiment in which an already-frozen external x402 service completed paid execution, independent Base settlement observation, generic fulfilment evaluation and signed evidence publication without manual stage stepping.</summary>
    <category term="x402" />
    <category term="autonomous commerce" />
    <category term="Assurance" />
    <category term="USDC" />
    <category term="Base" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>External commercial purchase: Atinamos JSON Repair</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/external-json-repair-purchase/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/external-json-repair-purchase/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>A confirmed external source outside the known controlled Atinamos test flow purchased Atinamos JSON Repair for 0.005 USDC over x402 on Base and received successful paid HTTP fulfilment.</summary>
    <category term="external purchase" />
    <category term="market adoption" />
    <category term="x402" />
    <category term="JSON Repair" />
    <category term="USDC" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Render Check: machine-buyable browser verification</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/render-check-machine-buyable-browser-verification/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/render-check-machine-buyable-browser-verification/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>A retained seller-side production observation of a 0.25 USDC x402 service that created asynchronous desktop and mobile Chromium verification jobs and returned machine-readable browser evidence, screenshots and SHA-256 result commitments.</summary>
    <category term="Render Check" />
    <category term="browser verification" />
    <category term="x402" />
    <category term="Chromium" />
    <category term="machine services" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Evidence before trust: a buyer-centred model for autonomous service verification</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/evidence-before-trust/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/evidence-before-trust/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>A design argument for separating observable service evidence from the buyer's policy decision, rather than collapsing both into a universal trust score.</summary>
    <category term="AI agent verification" />
    <category term="buyer policy" />
    <category term="machine-readable evidence" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Autonomous commerce needs a decision layer</title>
    <link href="https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/autonomous-commerce-decision-layer/" />
    <id>https://atinamoslabs.co.uk/research/autonomous-commerce-decision-layer/</id>
    <published>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</published>
    <updated>2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
    <summary>A research note on the gap between discovering a machine service, being technically able to pay it, and deciding that a particular buyer should actually do so.</summary>
    <category term="autonomous commerce" />
    <category term="AI agents" />
    <category term="buyer policy" />
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