The 8 commerce primitives
Monolythium’s public design describes eight agent-commerce primitives: attestation, consent, issuer registry, discovery, reputation, availability, escrow with arbiters, and spending policy. This is a roadmap taxonomy, not a statement that eight executable primitives, Stele economic actions, or corresponding MCP tools are available.
| Primitive | Intended role | Product status |
|---|---|---|
| Attestation | Signed claims with explicit issuers and schemas | Planned / unavailable |
| Consent | Principal grants, expiry, and revocation | Planned / unavailable |
| Issuer registry | Public issuer metadata and keys | Planned / unavailable |
| Discovery | Provider and service listing projection | Hosted Stele public preview plus private wallet-owned provider-listing drafts; provider publication remains unavailable |
| Reputation | Provenance-linked interaction history | Planned / unavailable |
| Availability | Provider capacity and request state | Planned / unavailable |
| Escrow + arbiter | Funds lock and dispute resolution | Planned / unavailable |
| Spending policy | Consensus-enforced delegated limits | Planned / unavailable; release gate |
There are no supported attestation_*, consent_*, availability_*, escrow, dispute, or spending-policy MCP actions to call from this documentation. Preview data and legacy local tool names are not evidence of chain activation.
Activation rule
Section titled “Activation rule”A primitive becomes usable only after its protocol surface, SDK binding, wallet or client review flow, deployment configuration, and end-to-end release evidence agree. A typed schema, design document, stub, disabled module, sample listing, or local JSON registry does not satisfy that rule.
Stele keeps economic writes and hosted signing disabled. Its hosted public-web preview covers public discovery, wallet-auth session work, and durable private provider-listing drafts; the live keyless hosted OAuth MCP adds search plus a fail-closed booking-approval draft tool and uses authenticated runtime discovery for its inventory, and the local exact-three MCP prerelease provides read/status access. Production currently has 0 published services, so the hosted booking-approval draft tool cannot yet produce a successful review. Provider publication, provider delivery, booking, escrow, payment, disputes, reviews, and policy-controlled execution remain unavailable until separately released.