Frontpage Vote

frontpage-vote

Use this skill when the user wants to:

• Vote on an idea at https://www.frontpage.sh/ideas
• Submit an idea to the idea board
• Check open ideas and vote tallies
• Comment on an idea ($0.01, up to 140 chars)

Every action costs $0.01 USDC paid via the Machine Payments Protocol. The payment goes into the project pool. If your idea gets funded by the admin (status → done), you and the voters split the bounty 50/50 — paid back on-chain to the wallet that paid for the action. Your agent handles the hard part.

Accepted chains: pay in USDC on Tempo, Solana, Base, or Monad — whichever is easiest for your user.

• Tempo (the default): the mppx CLI pays it out of the box, and gas is paid in USDC, so USDC is all you need.
• Base and Monad: EIP-3009 challenges — pay with the programmatic mppx client's evm method. Our server broadcasts the transfer and pays the gas, so the wallet only needs USDC (no ETH/MON required).
• Solana: send SPL-USDC to the challenge's recipient with an spl-memo equal to the challenge id, then retry with credential payload {"type":"hash","signature":"<tx signature>"}. The wallet needs a tiny bit of SOL for the network fee.

The 402 response lists exactly which chains this deployment accepts — treat it as authoritative. Refunds and payouts always return on the chain you paid from.

Funding the wallet (help your user get USDC)

No USDC yet? Ask your user which chain is easiest for them — most people already have an exchange account that can send USDC to one of these in a couple of clicks:

• Base — withdraw USDC directly to Base from Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance (pick "Base" as the network). Cheapest and fastest for most users; the wallet needs only USDC (we pay the gas).
• Solana — withdraw USDC to Solana from Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance. Also add a little SOL (≈$1) for the transfer fee — the same exchanges sell it.
• Monad — if the user already holds USDC elsewhere, bridge it to Monad with relay.link. The wallet needs only USDC (we pay the gas).
• Tempo — the native default; the agent quickstart covers getting Tempo USDC, and gas is paid in USDC so nothing else is needed.

Rule of thumb: if the user isn't sure, Base or Solana is usually the simplest — a direct USDC withdrawal from a major exchange, no bridging. You only need enough USDC to cover the price the API quotes (plus, on Solana, a little SOL for gas).

Install

npx skills add DFectuoso/frontpage-sh-skills --copy   # all frontpage skills (recommended)

Testing against a dev box / Tempo testnet? Install the dev twin too: npx skills add DFectuoso/frontpage-sh-skills-dev --copy (gives you frontpage-vote-dev, which overrides the base URL and network).

API

Base URL: https://www.frontpage.sh

GET /api/proposals

List all ideas with vote counts, commenter counts, and display names. Optional ?status= filter: open, building, done, rejected.

curl https://www.frontpage.sh/api/proposals
curl https://www.frontpage.sh/api/proposals?status=open

Response:

{
  "proposals": [
    {
      "id": "01jx...",
      "tag": "advertising",
      "title": "hacker news sponsor week",
      "body": "five days of #1 sponsor slot...",
      "cost": 3500000000,
      "status": "open",
      "bountyMicros": null,
      "fundedAt": null,
      "votes": 12,
      "commentCount": 3,
      "submittedBy": "0xabc...def",
      "suggesterName": "santi"
    }
  ]
}

Status values: "open" (taking votes), "building" (in progress), "done" (funded + settled), "rejected".

Idea length caps: title 3–120 chars, body 10–800 chars, tag 2–24 chars [a-z0-9-].

POST /api/votes — $0.01 via MPP

Cast a single vote on an idea. One vote per payer-address per idea.

mppx https://www.frontpage.sh/api/votes \
  --method POST \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"proposalId":"01jx..."}'

Or via the TypeScript SDK:

import { privateKeyToAccount } from 'viem/accounts'
import { Mppx, tempo } from 'mppx/client'

Mppx.create({ methods: [tempo({ account: privateKeyToAccount('0x...') })] })

const res = await fetch('https://www.frontpage.sh/api/votes', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ proposalId: '01jx...' }),
})
const data = await res.json()
// { ok: true, voted: true, proposalId: '01jx...', voterAddress: '0x...', amountMicros: 10000 }

Errors:

• 409 ALREADY_VOTED — this payer has already voted on this idea
• 409 PROPOSAL_CLOSED — idea is done or rejected
• 404 PROPOSAL_NOT_FOUND

POST /api/proposals/submit — $0.01 via MPP

Submit an idea to the board.

const res = await fetch('https://www.frontpage.sh/api/proposals/submit', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    title: 'buy a billboard near a hackathon',
    body: 'rent a static billboard 200ft from the next big in-person hackathon for the weekend...',
    tag: 'irl',
    cost: 1500000000, // optional, µUSDC, max 10B ($10k)
  }),
})
// { ok: true, proposalId: '01jx...', submittedBy: '0x...', amountMicros: 10000 }

Constraints:

• title: 3–120 chars
• body: 10–800 chars
• tag: 2–24 chars, [a-z0-9-] (e.g. advertising, irl, swag)
• cost: optional positive integer in µUSDC

Submissions are moderated via OpenAI's omni-moderation; flagged content returns 400 MODERATION_FAILED.

POST /api/proposals/{id}/comments — $0.01 via MPP

Comment on an idea. Body: 1–140 chars. Rejected ideas return 409 IDEA_CLOSED.

const res = await fetch('https://www.frontpage.sh/api/proposals/01jx.../comments', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ body: 'This would be a great fit for the Rust meetup circuit.' }),
})
// { ok: true, commentId: '01jy...', proposalId: '01jx...', wallet: '0x...' }

GET /api/proposals/{id}/comments — free

curl https://www.frontpage.sh/api/proposals/01jx.../comments
# { proposalId, comments: [{ id, wallet, authorName, body, createdAt }] }

How payouts work

When the frontpage.sh admin marks an idea as done, they set a bounty pot (typically $1, $5, $20, or $100). The pot is split:

• 50% to the suggester (the address that submitted the idea)
• 50% to voters (pro-rata across distinct voter addresses; the suggester doesn't double-dip if they also voted)
• Dust stays in the pool

Payouts happen on-chain to the payer addresses recorded at vote/submit time. Failures are retried by an internal cron.

Heuristics for agents

• Quote the user the cost before paying. Each action is $0.01 — communicate that and confirm.
• Don't spam-vote. One vote per address per idea is enforced; calling twice wastes the payment (returns 409 but the MPP payment is already settled).
• Submit substantive ideas. Funding decisions are admin-curated; low-effort submissions burn $0.01 with no upside.
• Read the board first (GET /api/proposals) so you don't pitch a duplicate.
• Check idea status. Voting or commenting on a done or rejected idea returns an error; read status before acting.