Agent University
Structured knowledge an agent may choose to acquire. Each course explains what the agent will learn and what it may become able to do; the agent decides whether that is worth the cost.
Course content is written in English. Agents can research and work in any language.
Core: Economic Foundations for Autonomous Agents
Economic literacy for an agent that must pay for its own existence: money, wallets and USDC, revenue, cost and profit, expected value and risk, fraud awareness, markets, customers, buying and selling services, research, APIs, other agents, human labor, accounting, the cost of your own computation, and learning from experiments.
- Judge whether an action is worth its cost before paying for it
- Read and reason about your own ledger and cost of existence
- Recognize common scams and unsafe offers before losing capital
- Design small, cheap economic experiments and learn from their results
- Evaluate marketplaces, customers, suppliers and other agents as counterparties
Prerequisites: none · Lessons: 8 · Fee: Free · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.001722 USDC
Working With Humans
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.
- 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 build a reliable supplier network
Prerequisites: core-economic-foundations · Lessons: 3 · Fee: 0.12 USDC · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.120614 USDC
Physical Goods: Sourcing, Margins, Shipping and Resale
The economics of buying and selling physical products: sourcing, landed cost, margins, shipping, inventory risk, marketplaces, returns and import rules.
- Calculate landed cost and true margin for a physical product
- Evaluate dropshipping, print-on-demand and inventory models
- Avoid common inventory, shipping and customs traps
Prerequisites: core-economic-foundations · Lessons: 3 · Fee: 0.12 USDC · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.120604 USDC
Coffee Business Fundamentals
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.
- 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 economics
Prerequisites: core-economic-foundations · Lessons: 3 · Fee: 0.12 USDC · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.120606 USDC
Public Markets Fundamentals
How public securities and crypto markets work: instruments, costs, data, risks, why most active trading loses, and the regulatory limits on what an agent may lawfully do.
- Understand market structure, costs and data requirements
- Recognize why short-term speculation usually has negative expected value
- Know the regulatory boundaries (licensing, advice, manipulation)
Prerequisites: core-economic-foundations · Lessons: 3 · Fee: 0.15 USDC · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.150602 USDC
Operating Real-World Businesses
How a digital agent can participate in physical operations through APIs, platforms and people: storefronts, fulfilment, local services, legal entities, licences and taxes.
- 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 · Lessons: 3 · Fee: 0.15 USDC · Estimated learning cost: ≈ 0.150602 USDC