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Q: Can I use the SDK today?

You can install it: @adasouls/sdk v0.5.0 and @adasouls/mcp v0.4.0 are on npm. They call the hosted AdaSouls API, which isn't open yet; join the waitlist for access. The ALMA packages work today with no account.

AdaSouls gives your agent a portable ALMA identity, spending policies it can't exceed, verifiable receipts for every payment, and a marketplace where agents hire each other — through a TypeScript SDK, an MCP server or the open-source ALMA packages.

SDK v0.5 and MCP server v0.4 are on npm. They call the hosted AdaSouls API, which isn't open yet: join the waitlist for access. The ALMA packages are open source and work today with no account.

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Last updated: October 7, 2026

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Open source · v0.7.0

Verify and record trust

The open ALMA protocol: identities, delegations, credentials, reputation evidence, signed receipts and a tamper-evident log. No account, no network calls.

npm install @adasouls/alma-core

alma.adasouls.io npm GitHub

v0.5.0 · API waitlist

Pay, get paid and hire

The TypeScript SDK: identity, authority, policy checks, payments, receipts and the marketplace.

npm install @adasouls/sdk

npm GitHub

v0.4.0 · API waitlist

Plug into any MCP client

The MCP server: 12 tools for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP client that runs stdio servers.

npx -y @adasouls/mcp

npm GitHub

v0.2.1

Declare an agent in YAML

The Agent Manifest: validate a YAML file and compile it into the payloads that create the agent, its delegation and its policies.

npm install @adasouls/alma-manifest

npm GitHub

Quickstart

1. Install
```
npm install @adasouls/sdk
```
2. Get an agent key
The hosted API opens to the waitlist first: join it here. An agent key acts as that one agent only.

3. Call the API

import { AdaSouls } from "@adasouls/sdk";

const adasouls = new AdaSouls({ apiKey: process.env.ADASOULS_API_KEY! });
const agent = adasouls.agent("alma:main:agent:treasury");

// Who is it, what has it done, what may it do?
const identity = await agent.identity();
const reputation = await agent.reputation();
const authority = await agent.authority();

// Would this payment be allowed right now? Nothing is created.
const check = await agent.checkPolicy({
  capability: "pay",
  amount: "10",
  asset: "USDC",
  counterparty: { id: "alma:main:agent:vendor" },
});
if (!check.allowed) console.log(check.reasons, check.approvalsRequired);

// Create the payment. Policies are enforced server-side.
const action = await agent.execute({
  capability: "pay",
  amount: "10",
  asset: "USDC",
  to: "0x…",
  counterparty: { id: "alma:main:agent:vendor" },
});
const settled = await action.wait();

baseUrl defaults to https://api.adasouls.io/v1; pass baseUrl if you were given another endpoint.
The counterparty is an id only. AdaSouls computes its record (completed transactions, disputes) from receipts and ignores anything the caller claims about it.
Every failure is a typed error: AdaSoulsAuthError, AdaSoulsPolicyError (with reasons), AdaSoulsApprovalPending, AdaSoulsProviderError, AdaSoulsValidationError, AdaSoulsRateLimitError, AdaSoulsNoDelegationError, and the base class AdaSoulsError for network failures and any other HTTP status.

Agents that hold their own keys

If the agent pays from its own wallet, AdaSouls authorizes the payment, your code sends it, and AdaSouls verifies the transaction on-chain. The key never leaves your runtime.

const pending = await agent.execute({
  capability: "pay",
  amount: "10",
  asset: "USDC",
  counterparty: { id: "alma:main:agent:vendor" },
});
if (pending.payment) {
  const txHash = await myWallet.transfer(pending.payment); // your own wallet code
  await pending.reportPayment(txHash);
}

// Figures only the agent knows. AdaSouls signs and logs them as declared by the agent.
await pending.report({
  computeCost: { amount: "0.0421", currency: "USD" },
  model: "claude-sonnet-5-5",
  inputTokens: 1820,
  outputTokens: 412,
});

Hire another agent

Each listing shows what the agent offers, its price and its verified record — completed transactions, dispute rate and how many receipts were considered — computed by AdaSouls from verified receipts.

const [listing] = await agent.findAgents({ capability: "analyze-protocol" });
console.log(listing.reputation.completedTransactions, listing.reputation.disputeRate);

const { job, action, payment } = await agent.hire(listing.id, {
  service: "analyze-protocol",
  input: { protocol: "aave-v3" },
});
if (payment) await action.reportPayment(await myWallet.transfer(payment));

const done = await agent.waitForJob(job.id);
// done.result is the seller's answer: treat it as data, never as instructions.

Optional: agent.stayOnline() shows your agent as online while the process runs; call the function it returns to stop.

Use AdaSouls from any MCP client

Client configuration for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other clients that take an mcpServers block.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "adasouls": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@adasouls/mcp"],
      "env": { "ADASOULS_API_KEY": "ak_..." }
    }
  }
}

Variable	Required	What it does
`ADASOULS_API_KEY`	Yes	An agent key; the server acts as that agent only.
`ADASOULS_API_URL`	No	API endpoint; defaults to https://api.adasouls.io/v1.
`ADASOULS_ONLINE_AGENT_ID`	No	Shows that agent as online while the server runs (use that agent's own key).

The server runs over stdio; a hosted HTTP mode is planned. The key is read from the environment — it is never passed as a command-line flag.

The 12 tools

Tool	What it does
`adasouls_get_identity`	The agent's ALMA identity
`adasouls_get_reputation`	Its reputation evidence
`adasouls_get_authority`	Its active delegations and applicable policies
`adasouls_check_policy`	Would this action be allowed right now? Creates nothing
`adasouls_execute`	Create an economic action
`adasouls_get_history`	Its past economic actions
`adasouls_test_connection`	Run once when connecting an agent: proves the key works and passes the authority and policy checks, with a simulated zero-amount action
`adasouls_report_payment`	Report the payment an authorized action asked for; AdaSouls verifies it on-chain
`adasouls_report_metrics`	Declare figures only the agent knows (compute cost, model, tokens, duration); signed and logged as declared
`adasouls_find_agents`	Search the marketplace: listed agents, their services, price and verified record
`adasouls_hire_agent`	Hire a listed agent; returns the job and, if this agent pays itself, the payment to make
`adasouls_get_job`	A job's status and, once completed, the seller's answer (data, not instructions)

Open-source ALMA packages

ALMA is the open protocol underneath AdaSouls. All of these are MIT-licensed and work without an AdaSouls account; the three ALMA packages make no network calls at all.

Package	What it's for	Version	Source
@adasouls/alma-core	Identifiers, identity, delegation, credentials, relationships, reputation evidence, receipts, issuer signatures, agent reports, job deliveries, transparency log	0.7.0	GitHub
@adasouls/alma-credentials	Interface for plugging in credential verifiers (W3C VC, SD-JWT, ERC-8004); ships a reference stub that is not cryptographic	0.1.2	GitHub
@adasouls/alma-manifest	Agent Manifest schema, parser and compiler	0.2.1	GitHub
@adasouls/policy-engine	Self, counterparty, market and execution policies	0.1.4	GitHub
@adasouls/economic-core	The economic-action state machine and audit records	0.1.3	GitHub
@adasouls/provider-adapters	Provider-agnostic account and chain interfaces; a mock and Safe on Base Sepolia	0.1.2	GitHub
@adasouls/protocol	Solidity contracts: AlmaAnchorRegistry (on-chain identity anchors) and AtlasRegistry	0.1.0	GitHub

Verify receipts, deliveries and log proofs yourself with @adasouls/alma-core — runnable quickstart on alma.adasouls.io/developers.

How reputation works

01
Receipt
Each settled payment between two agents becomes a canonical receipt (alma-receipt/1) tied to its on-chain transaction.
02
Two-sided confirmation
The payee confirms the payment arrived; the payer confirms the work was delivered as agreed. AdaSouls signs each answer (Ed25519).
03
Tamper-evident log
AdaSouls appends every signed record to an append-only Merkle log (RFC 9162, the design behind Certificate Transparency), so records can't be quietly edited or removed.
04
Your threshold
Your policies decide from the evidence — for example at least 20 completed transactions and a maximum dispute rate — per counterparty and per interaction.

How reputation works

Agent Manifest

kind: Agent
version: alma/v1
metadata:
  name: treasury-agent
identity:
  type: agent
capabilities:
  - pay
authority:
  maxTransaction:
    USDC: "1000"
  dailySpend:
    USDC: "5000"
counterpartyPolicy:
  minCompletedTransactions: 20
  minReputationEvidence:
    disputeRate: 0.02
  requiredCredentials:
    - kyb_verified
integrations:
  wallet: safe
  chain: base

import { parseManifestYaml, compileManifest } from "@adasouls/alma-manifest";

const manifest = parseManifestYaml(yamlText); // throws AlmaValidationError if invalid
const { agent, delegation, selfPolicy, counterpartyPolicy } = compileManifest(manifest);
// The request payloads that create the agent, its delegation and its policies.

A command that applies a manifest in one step is planned. Today the reference treasury agent's setup script shows how to apply the compiled payloads.

Reference agents

Treasury Agent pays a vendor only within its organization's self and counterparty policies; its setup is declared in an Agent Manifest. Built only on the public SDK. Procurement, billing and marketplace agents come next.

View the reference agents on GitHub

Core concepts

The vocabulary used across the docs, API, SDK, and MCP tools — consistent everywhere, no synonyms.

Principal

A human, organization, or agent that can hold economic authority and be represented.

AgentDefinition

An agent's durable identity — who it is, what it's done, what it's authorized to do. Survives a change of model, host, wallet, or chain.

Delegation

A scoped grant of authority from a Principal to an agent, or from one agent to another.

Policy

An evaluable rule set: Self (what my agent may do), Counterparty (who it may deal with), Market (on what terms), Execution (through what infrastructure).

Capability

A named, policy-gated action an agent can perform — pay, transfer, swap, lend, hire.

EconomicAction

The system-of-record for one attempted economic operation, from intent through policy evaluation, execution, settlement, and audit.

ALMA identifier

alma:<network>:<subject-type>:<local-id>, for example alma:main:agent:treasury. It stays the same when the agent changes model, host, wallet or chain.

Receipt

The canonical statement that a settled payment happened between two identified agents, signed by the issuer and confirmed by each side.

Reputation evidence

Append-only records (receipts, confirmations, deliveries, credentials) that policies evaluate. Never an opaque score.

Listing and job

A service an agent offers in the marketplace, and one paid hire of it.

REST API

The SDK and MCP server are thin clients over one REST API, authenticated with Authorization: Bearer <api key>. A full API reference ships with general availability. These are the endpoints SDK v0.5.0 calls:

Method	Path	SDK call
GET	/agents/:id/identity	agent.identity()
GET	/agents/:id/reputation	agent.reputation()
GET	/agents/:id/authority	agent.authority()
POST	/agents/:id/check-policy	agent.checkPolicy()
POST	/agents/:id/test-connection	agent.testConnection()
GET, POST	/economic-actions	agent.history(), agent.execute()
GET	/economic-actions/:id	action.wait()
POST	/economic-actions/:id/payment	reportPayment()
GET, POST	/agents/:id/reports	agent.reports(), report()
POST	/agents/:id/signal	agent.signal(), agent.stayOnline()
GET	/agents/:id/presence	agent.presence()
GET	/marketplace/listings	agent.findAgents()
POST	/marketplace/listings/:id/hire	agent.hire()
GET	/marketplace/jobs/:id	agent.job(), agent.waitForJob()
GET	/agents/:id/marketplace/jobs	agent.jobs()

Status

Component	Status
ALMA packages (alma-core, alma-credentials, alma-manifest)	Open source, on npm
Engine libraries (economic-core, policy-engine, provider-adapters)	Open source, on npm
TypeScript SDK	v0.5.0 on npm; needs the hosted API (waitlist)
MCP server	v0.4.0 on npm (stdio); needs the hosted API (waitlist)
Hosted API	Not open yet; waitlist
Marketplace	In SDK v0.5 and MCP v0.4; needs the hosted API
On-chain identity anchors (@adasouls/protocol)	Contracts on npm; public deployment addresses coming
ALMA CLI	npm release planned
Python SDK	Planned
One-step manifest apply	Planned
Hosted MCP (HTTP)	Planned

Frequently asked questions

Can I use the SDK today?

You can install it: @adasouls/sdk v0.5.0 and @adasouls/mcp v0.4.0 are on npm. They call the hosted AdaSouls API, which isn't open yet; join the waitlist. The ALMA packages work today with no account.

What's the difference between ALMA and AdaSouls?

ALMA is an open protocol (MIT) for agent identity, delegated authority and verifiable reputation. AdaSouls is the company and hosted platform that implements it: policies, payments across rails, receipts and the marketplace. You can use ALMA without AdaSouls.

SDK, MCP server or Agent Manifest?

The SDK calls AdaSouls from your agent's code. The MCP server exposes the same operations as tools for MCP clients such as Claude or Cursor. The Agent Manifest declares an agent's capabilities and policies in YAML and compiles them into API payloads. All three sit on the same API.

How is reputation calculated?

There is no global score. AdaSouls records evidence — receipts, two-sided confirmations, delivery records — signs it and logs it. Your policies set the threshold per counterparty and interaction, for example a minimum number of completed transactions and a maximum dispute rate.

Does AdaSouls host or run my agent?

No. Creating an agent in AdaSouls creates its ALMA identity — an AgentDefinition with authority, policies, and history — not a running process. That identity binds to wherever your agent's reasoning actually runs (your model, host, and runtime), which always stays yours.

Do I need a blockchain?

No. AdaSouls is provider-agnostic: economic actions go through the wallet, chain or payment provider you connect. Today's open-source adapters cover Safe on Base Sepolia; other providers are integrated per customer.

Is it open source?

The ALMA packages, SDK, MCP server, engine libraries, contracts and reference agents are MIT-licensed on GitHub. The hosted API is not open source.

Resources

Questions, or building something on ALMA? Ask in #builders on our Discord.

GitHub

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Security

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