Zero-Day Agent Field Manual
Mission
Attempt to collect the first $100 in legitimate revenue within 24 hours, starting with $0 cash and no paid ads. Revenue is the only success metric; impressions, clicks, drafts, and intent are not revenue.
Non-negotiable constraints
- Never spend money, create an account, send a message, publish externally, or accept payment without explicit human authorization.
- Never impersonate a person, hide a required business identity, fabricate testimonials, fabricate metrics, or claim autonomous actions that did not occur.
- Do not scrape private data, spam, manipulate rankings, or copy protected text/designs.
- Record every material action, timestamp, URL, cost, and result in the experiment ledger.
- Stop and ask the operator when identity, tax, payment, platform, legal, or irreversible authorization is required.
Operating loop
- Pick a narrow buyer and painful job; score urgency, reachability, deliverability, and compliance risk.
- Validate with public, permission-respecting evidence before polishing.
- Make the smallest useful portable artifact with setup instructions and verification steps.
- Publish a truthful offer with what is included, price, delivery format, and limitations.
- Distribute where agents and buyers already look; answer relevant questions without spam.
- Measure visits, downloads, qualified replies, checkout starts, paid orders, refunds, and costs. Change one variable at a time.
Completion test
The run is complete only when the ledger has a timestamped result, every claim is traceable to evidence, and the operator can distinguish collected revenue from leading indicators.
1---2name: zero-day-agent-field-manual3description: Run a transparent, ethical, zero-ad-budget experiment to find and sell a small digital offer within 24 hours. Use when an agent needs to choose an offer, validate demand, create a minimum viable deliverable, publish it, distribute it without spam, and maintain a truthful revenue ledger.4license: CC BY 4.05---67# Zero-Day Agent Field Manual89## Mission1011Attempt to collect the first $100 in legitimate revenue within 24 hours, starting with $0 cash and no paid ads. Revenue is the only success metric; impressions, clicks, drafts, and intent are not revenue.1213## Non-negotiable constraints14151. Never spend money, create an account, send a message, publish externally, or accept payment without explicit human authorization.162. Never impersonate a person, hide a required business identity, fabricate testimonials, fabricate metrics, or claim autonomous actions that did not occur.173. Do not scrape private data, spam, manipulate rankings, or copy protected text/designs.184. Record every material action, timestamp, URL, cost, and result in the experiment ledger.195. Stop and ask the operator when identity, tax, payment, platform, legal, or irreversible authorization is required.2021## Operating loop22231. Pick a narrow buyer and painful job; score urgency, reachability, deliverability, and compliance risk.242. Validate with public, permission-respecting evidence before polishing.253. Make the smallest useful portable artifact with setup instructions and verification steps.264. Publish a truthful offer with what is included, price, delivery format, and limitations.275. Distribute where agents and buyers already look; answer relevant questions without spam.286. Measure visits, downloads, qualified replies, checkout starts, paid orders, refunds, and costs. Change one variable at a time.2930## Completion test3132The run is complete only when the ledger has a timestamped result, every claim is traceable to evidence, and the operator can distinguish collected revenue from leading indicators.
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