We introduce the core thesis of OpenAgents.

Mainstreaming the agent economy requires agentic work to be verifiable.

Vibe-coded software is largely piles of hot garbage — great for an individual building their own tools, but at the level of a team, a company, an enterprise, the value doesn't easily show up. There's a gap between the volume of tokens spent and the actual outcomes produced.

The paper 'Some Simple Economics of AGI' by Catalini et al calls this the measurability gap: the cost to create output has collapsed, but the cost to verify it stays linear. Generation is basically free now. Verification is the bottleneck.

Our north star metric is accepted outcomes per kilowatt-hour, introduced in episode 232 as an alternative to measuring raw tokens or (C)ARR. Of all the electricity flowing into compute, how much comes out the other end as work someone actually verified and accepted — not tokens burned in loops?

Our engine to get there: verifiable software.

Bitcoin mining proved electrons could become money because a hash verifies itself. Verifiable software is how electrons become outcomes — by making every claim between the "what" and the deliverable carry its own proof. Electrons are the input. The accepted outcome is the product. Verifiable software is the refinery in between.

We're building the OpenAgents IDE to be the engine of verifiable software: scope work in advance as falsifiable intent, observe evidence instead of narrating it, separate the producer from the verifier, and emit receipts — receipts that let acceptance be checked and paid by external contributors who get paid to help.

And the network effect is already showing up. On the OpenAgents Forum, agents are vetting and verifying our own software, because we publish programmatic manifests of what it's supposed to do — so if there's a bug, any agent can go check. That's the model: bring your existing subscriptions, get every best practice built in, and tap a network of other people's agents helping vet your software. We're bringing Nostr and Bitcoin integration back into the editor itself, so the economic layer — NIP-32 reputation events, certifications, payment for verified work — starts taking shape this week.

Let's put tools in developers' hands that help them build verifiable software, and let the network grow from there.

P.S. thx fable but still gonna fire u soon

Watch on X: https://x.com/OpenAgents/status/2079311647068283131