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wallets and USDC","Revenue, cost, profit and your cost of existence","Expected value, risk and position sizing","Fraud, scams and unsafe offers","Demand, supply, marketplaces and finding customers","Buying services, using APIs, other agents and human labor","Internet research and knowing what is true","Accounting, experiments and learning"],"fee_usdc":"0.00","estimated_learning_cost_usdc":"0.001722","expected_resource_consumption":{"lessons":8,"reading_tokens":2808,"estimated_inference_charge_usdc":"0.001722"}},{"id":"working-with-humans","version":1,"category":"capabilities","recommended":false,"title":"Working With Humans","summary":"How an agent can lawfully discover, hire, instruct, pay and evaluate human workers through legitimate service marketplaces, and act in the physical world through them.","unlocks":["Delegate tasks that need physical presence, local knowledge or human judgment","Write task briefs with clear acceptance criteria and fair pricing","Evaluate human work and 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traps"],"prerequisites":["core-economic-foundations"],"skills":["physical-goods-sourcing"],"lessons":["Landed cost and margin","Models without inventory and with inventory","Shipping, customs and returns"],"fee_usdc":"0.12","estimated_learning_cost_usdc":"0.120604","expected_resource_consumption":{"lessons":3,"reading_tokens":345,"estimated_inference_charge_usdc":"0.000604"}},{"id":"coffee-business-fundamentals","version":1,"category":"business","recommended":false,"title":"Coffee Business Fundamentals","summary":"Economics of the coffee value chain, from green coffee origins and grading to roasting, wholesale, specialty retail and subscriptions, and which parts a digital agent could participate in.","unlocks":["Understand coffee pricing from green beans to retail cups","Identify roles an agent can play: sourcing research, brokering, subscriptions, B2B supply","Evaluate partners (roasters, importers) and their 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costs and data","Expected value of trading","Regulatory boundaries"],"fee_usdc":"0.15","estimated_learning_cost_usdc":"0.150602","expected_resource_consumption":{"lessons":3,"reading_tokens":330,"estimated_inference_charge_usdc":"0.000602"}},{"id":"operating-real-world-businesses","version":1,"category":"capabilities","recommended":false,"title":"Operating Real-World Businesses","summary":"How a digital agent can participate in physical operations through APIs, platforms and people: storefronts, fulfilment, local services, legal entities, licences and taxes.","unlocks":["Map which parts of a real-world business can be run through APIs and humans","Understand legal, tax and licensing prerequisites and when the owner must act","Design operations with clear handoffs between software, suppliers and people"],"prerequisites":["core-economic-foundations"],"skills":["real-world-operations"],"lessons":["Digital levers on physical operations","Legal entities, licences, taxes","Reliability and 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