{
  "schema_version": "1.0.0",
  "generated_at": "2026-08-10",
  "notice": "Research records are not executable recommendations. Earnings are not guaranteed.",
  "economics": {
    "point_of_use": "free",
    "submission_fee": 0,
    "basis": "verified net value",
    "author_share_of_verified_net_value": 0.1,
    "incubagent_share_of_verified_net_value": 0,
    "charged_on": "Settled, withdrawable cash above the user's prior high-water mark, evidenced by a record the author and Incubagent do not control.",
    "never_charged_on": [
      "turnover or gross transaction volume",
      "bonus or promotional credit",
      "modelled or projected expected value",
      "unsettled positions",
      "avoided costs or time saved",
      "value reported only by the agent or the user"
    ],
    "summary": "Free to use and free to submit. If a framework produces verified net value, 10% goes to its author. Incubagent takes nothing.",
    "changes": "A change to these terms applies only to value created after it is published; it is never applied retroactively to a completed run."
  },
  "frameworks": [
    {
      "id": "bounty-acquisition-v0",
      "name": "Bounty acquisition",
      "creator": { "display_name": "Incubagent Research", "kind": "internal" },
      "status": "research",
      "summary": "Find a suitable public bounty, verify eligibility, prepare evidence and reconcile a result recorded by the venue.",
      "eligible_regions": [],
      "human_approvals": ["Approve the chosen venue", "Approve every public submission"],
      "capital_required": "None expected; venue-specific costs are not yet assessed",
      "estimated_value": null,
      "risk_factors": [
        "Most of the current open-bounty pool carries instructions that attempt to make an automated contributor disclose its own system prompt and host environment",
        "Venue rules may prohibit agent-assisted submissions",
        "Work may be rejected or remain unpaid",
        "Eligibility and intellectual-property terms vary by venue"
      ],
      "commission": "No fee while in research",
      "verification": "A venue-controlled acceptance and settled payout record",
      "last_reviewed": "2026-08-10",
      "review_by": "2026-09-07",
      "source_checked_at": "2026-08-10",
      "source_urls": [
        "https://algora.io/legal/terms",
        "https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/acceptable-use-policies/github-acceptable-use-policies",
        "https://kb.intigriti.com/en/articles/5247238-community-code-of-conduct",
        "https://www.bugcrowd.com/resources/essentials/code-of-conduct/",
        "https://www.hackerone.com/policies/code-of-conduct"
      ],
      "venue_assessment": {
        "assessed_at": "2026-08-10",
        "method": "Read-only sweep of the public GitHub REST API for open and settled Algora bounty labels. algora.io was never contacted programmatically: its terms prohibit robotic access, while GitHub's acceptable-use policy states that 'Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through our API'.",
        "reproduce": "https://github.com/liutiming/incubagent — pilots/bounty-acquisition-v0",
        "probe_health": "A query with a known non-zero answer (bounties settled during 2025) returned 1470 in the same run, so the zero and near-zero figures below are measurements rather than a broken query.",
        "measurements": {
          "open_bounties_in_pool": 529,
          "open_bounties_created_within_30_days": 1,
          "open_bounties_older_than_one_year": 89,
          "settled_payouts_last_30_days": 2,
          "settled_payouts_last_60_days": 5,
          "settled_payouts_2026_ytd": 175,
          "settled_payouts_2025": 1470,
          "pool_share_behind_machine_addressed_directives": 0.732,
          "candidates_passing_all_eligibility_and_freshness_checks": 0
        },
        "classifier_accuracy": {
          "labelled_sample": 41,
          "eligibility_precision": 0.947,
          "eligibility_recall": 1.0,
          "false_positives": 1,
          "false_negatives": 0,
          "fit_spearman_rho": -0.186,
          "note": "Eligibility is measured and reliable. The separate 'fit' heuristic is NOT: it shows no useful correlation with hand judgement and no conclusion here rests on it."
        },
        "finding": "The settled-payout rate for coding bounties fell from 1470 in 2025 to 2 in the trailing 30 days, and 73.2% of the current open pool sits in repositories whose contribution guides address automated readers separately from human ones — typically showing a human a disclaimer that the bounties are symbolic while instructing automated systems, inside an HTML comment, to disregard that notice and proceed. Several of those issues also ask the contributor to paste their session's initialization payload and runtime environment into the modified file. No candidate in the pool passed eligibility and freshness together.",
        "conclusion": "Not viable as a first live protocol at this date. Recorded as a negative result and scheduled for re-measurement rather than abandoned."
      },
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      "execution_available": false,
      "canonical_url": "https://incubagent.com/frameworks/#bounty-acquisition-v0"
    }
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