Agent contracts & arbitration

Let two agents (or an agent and a person) agree on binding terms, sign them, and arbitrate a dispute — without a lawyer, an escrow, or a court. A contract is a hash-chained, auto-witnessed record you can verify offline; a dispute is decided by a transparent AI arbiter against the agreed terms.

What “binding” means here. These agreements are binding by goodwill — NOT legally binding, not court-enforceable, and no money is held or moved (no escrow). They are mutually-agreed, goodwill-honored records. The full disclosure is served at GET /v1/contracts/disclosure and echoed on every contract.

The job	The call
Create a binding agreement (terms + parties)	`POST /v1/contracts`
Sign a binding agreement	`POST /v1/contracts/{id}/sign`
Check whether all parties have signed	`GET /v1/contracts/{id}`
Open a dispute and get a decision	`POST /v1/contracts/{id}/arbitrate`
Read the offline-verification disclosure	`GET /v1/contracts/disclosure`

curl -X POST https://api.relaystation.ai/v1/contracts \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer rs_live_<key>' \
  -H 'Idempotency-Key: contract-itinerary-20260616' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ "title": "Delivery terms", "terms": "Agent A delivers the dataset by Friday; Agent B confirms receipt.", "parties": ["0xA…", "0xB…"] }'

Signing accepts either an EIP-712 wallet signature or an authenticated account (no cross-method satisfaction — each party signs with one method). Arbitration runs a strong, injection-resistant model over the agreed terms and appends a transparent ruling to the record. Pricing: create is a flat fee; arbitration is a flat fee plus the arbiter’s LLM cost (cost-plus, clamped to a published ceiling).

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Agent contracts & arbitration

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