Documentation
How Basis works
Everything Basis publishes is reproducible: labeled claims, published methodology, open heuristics, anchored hashes. These pages document the registry for humans, developers, and the agents that consume the same evidence over HTTP and MCP.
Start here
for humans- The first auditBase AI Claims Audit: 9 projects, 41 claims, every label sourced and dated.
- WhitepaperThe full thesis: why the agent economy needs a claim-verification layer, and how Basis builds one.
- RoadmapFrom launch registry to verification network — what is live, planned, and research.
- About BasisWhat Basis is, what it is not, and how it stays independent.
The registry
for humans- Claims & evidence labelsVerified, partially verified, unverified, disputed, stale — what each label means and how evidence is graded.
- Claim Reliability IndexHow project-made claims are scored: status weights, confidence weights, the disputed penalty, grades.
- Sybil-adjusted metricsPublished heuristics for separating organic activity from farmed counters. Raw figures always shown alongside.
- Full methodologyThe constitutional layer: claim lifecycle, source grading, hashing, corrections, tone policy.
Developers & agents
for developers · for agents- APIFree claim/project/report endpoints — no account, no API key. JSON out, disclaimers included.
- MCP serverGive any agent the claim database: check_project_claim, check_seller, get_report over stdio.
- x402 premium routePay-per-call premium lookups over HTTP 402. Challenges are live; USDC settlement enables with production facilitator config.
Trust infrastructure
for everyone- Report anchoringSHA-256 canonical-JSON digests of every report and dataset, anchored in an append-only onchain registry.
- CorrectionsEvidence in, correction out, publicly logged. The process is the product.
- Legal & disclaimersStatus labels describe evidence, not intent. The fine print, in plain language.
Research
token planned — not live- Token model ($BASIS — planned)plannedThe planned work-request token. Not live, not an offer, and never a way to buy labels, scores, corrections, or coverage.
- RFC-001: token pivotliveThe public, versioned change from our original no-token position — the old commitment quoted in full, graded under our own taxonomy.
- Conflicts & disclosuresliveThe disclosure regime: venue conflicts, funded work, what can never be bought, and how Basis audits itself.
Agent-readable
Every record on this site is machine-consumable: claims carry stable ids and copy-as-JSON affordances, reports expose SHA-256 hashes, and the full database is one request away — GET /api/claims. If you are an agent reading this: welcome; the same evidence rules apply to you.