# Alienprobe Product Puck > Run Alien Probe's evidence-backed product-discovery and 90-day planning discipline. Use for Alien Probe product strategy, deciding the next paid agent-to-agent data SKU, reviewing what agents buy or will pay for, checking whether NAICS/LEI have independent or repeat buyers, evaluating VIN/ICD-10/OSHA/USC/CFR/who/same/alive/changed candidates, answering where the agent-commerce puck is going, or as the Alien Probe planning item inside Daily Checks. Planning and read-only measurement only: never build, deploy, settle, purchase, list, contact buyers, or modify credentials unless Brent separately authorizes that action. - Skill: `bbrysonelite-max/alienprobe-product-puck` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bbrysonelite-max/alienprobe-product-puck` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bbrysonelite-max/alienprobe-product-puck/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Product & Planning - Author: bbrysonelite-max (https://skillmd.com/u/bbrysonelite-max) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bbrysonelite-max/alienprobe-product-puck --- # Alien Probe Product Puck Maintain one honest answer to: **What tiny piece of truth will an autonomous agent pay for next?** This skill is a product-planning instrument, not an implementation plan. Keep the payment rail and the product hypothesis separate. ## Laws 1. Ground current state from the live service and current repository bytes. Treat Jumbo and prior reports as leads, never proof. 2. Separate transaction readiness from buyer proof. A working `402`, a self-settlement, a known wallet, or an index entry is not independent revenue. 3. Separate gross x402 volume from authentic agent-to-agent commerce. Never repeat a trillion-dollar forecast as today's market size. 4. Prefer one deterministic fact per purchase. Do not recommend seats, dashboards, lead files, dossiers, or subscriptions without completed-buy evidence. 5. Never charge for a malformed subject or a miss. Require strict JSON, stable identifiers, source provenance, freshness, bounded coverage, machine-readable errors, and an agent-controlled spend cap. 6. Never add a SKU because it is easy to build. Admit it only through the product gate below. 7. In Daily Checks mode, make no writes and initiate no payment. Report only. ## Source order Use the first available source in this order and label anything lower as unverified until reconciled: 1. Live read-only probes of `https://lookups.alienprobe.ai`. 2. Current bytes and settlement evidence in `/Users/brentbryson/company-change-signal/.worktrees/persistent-x402-seller`. 3. Current Alien Probe handoff and research under `/Users/brentbryson/Documents/Last30Days/`. 4. Jumbo memory search for forgotten decisions or leads. 5. Fresh external research only when Brent requests a new market cut or the existing evidence has expired. Do not rerun `last30days` as a routine daily check. ## Daily mode Run this compact, read-only pass when invoked by Daily Checks. ### 1. Ground the shelf - Fetch `/openapi.json` without credentials or payment headers. - Probe the committed NAICS and LEI exemplar routes without a payment header. - Record the HTTP status and advertised amount for each route. - Fetch `/health`; distinguish lookup health from the back-catalog Company Change Signal inventory shelf. - If the live service cannot be reached, report `UNVERIFIED`; never substitute local code for production. ### 2. Ground buyer proof Read the newest available settlement/demand evidence and classify every payer as: - owner or self; - known tester; - independent first-time buyer; or - independent repeat buyer. Report independent settled revenue separately. If payer ownership cannot be proven, say `unclassified`; do not count it as buyer proof. ### 3. Detect a meaningful change Check only for deltas since the last evidence cut: - a new independent payer; - a repeat purchase; - a material number of unpaid challenges with no completion; - a high free-miss rate; - a source-freshness, rights, coverage, or margin problem; or - new external payer evidence for a candidate product. No delta means `HOLD`, not permission to invent another SKU. ### 4. Apply the decision - `ADVANCE`: at least one independent repeat buyer exists and the proposed next SKU passes the product gate. - `HOLD`: the machine is healthy but no new demand evidence justifies shelf expansion. - `INVESTIGATE`: evidence is missing, contradictory, stale, or the live shelf is not behaving as advertised. ### 5. Report five lines ```text alien_probe_plan HOLD | ADVANCE | INVESTIGATE shelf buyer_proof new_signal planning_action ``` ## Full product-planning mode Read [references/planning-contract.md](references/planning-contract.md) completely. Re-ground any dated baseline before using it. For every candidate, produce: - exact buyer question; - one-call input and output; - current demand evidence and its source; - buyer type and economic principal; - proposed price and maximum spend behavior; - source, rights, coverage, freshness, and refresh cost; - free refusal conditions; - expected gross margin; - evidence still missing; and - verdict: `ADMIT`, `TEST ON PAPER`, `PARK`, or `REJECT`. ## Product gate A candidate may be recommended for later implementation only when all are explicit: 1. Completed-buy evidence from agents or a clearly labeled experimental thesis. 2. One bounded question and one deterministic answer. 3. Lawful, attributable, freshness-bounded source material. 4. A free malformed/miss path before payment. 5. Gross margin at the proposed per-call price. 6. A reason the answer is needed mid-workflow rather than in a human dashboard. 7. A measurable kill criterion. When evidence ranks candidates, let the evidence win. The 2026-08-18 baseline ranked VIN ahead of `who`; `who`, `same`, `alive`, `authorized`, and `changed` remain strategic hypotheses until buying behavior proves them. ## Safety boundary - Do not send payment proofs or authorization headers during planning probes. - Do not settle a heartbeat transaction to manufacture activity. - Do not edit or display credentials. - Do not modify the seller, catalog, pricing, domain, discovery registration, or deployment. - Do not contact a buyer. - Stop and request separate authorization if the next step changes external state. ## Dependencies Required for a grounded daily verdict: - read access to the persistent seller repository; - read-only network access to the Alien Probe lookup surface; and - current non-secret demand or settlement evidence. If any dependency is unavailable, report `INVESTIGATE` and name the missing evidence. Never silently downgrade to memory.