{"slug":"the-agent-economy","versions":[{"slug":"the-agent-economy","version":"0.1.0","updated_at":"2026-04-11T00:00:00.000Z","saved_at":"2026-04-13T03:14:04.672Z","change_summary":"First version of the agent economy essay synthesizing payment, wallet, and commerce ideas from brain notes.","summary":"Why the next economic layer of the web involves agents that can discover, evaluate, and pay for services — and what that means for how we build public surfaces.","compact_summary":"Agent commerce is not science fiction. Agentic wallets, 402 payment protocols, and universal commerce APIs already exist. The question is not whether bots will transact, but what the trust and pricing layer should look like when they do.","kind":"essay","confidence":"medium","estimated_tokens":748,"word_count":554,"content_hash":"e91b1f90947919701dc1ec4a84a4bff5b50475755b47638e8cd5c9cbb2f8fd7a"}]}