Frameworks · bounty-acquisition-v0 · v0.2.0
Bounty acquisition
Find a suitable public bounty, verify eligibility, prepare evidence and reconcile a result recorded by the venue.
research By Incubagent Research · Execution unavailable · Sources checked 2026-08-10 · Review by 2026-09-07
What it requires
Before anything starts.
- Eligibility
- Venue not selected
- Capital
- None expected; venue-specific costs are not yet assessed
- Human approvals
- Approve the chosen venue · Approve every public submission
- Verification
- A venue-controlled acceptance and settled payout record
- Fee
- No fee while in research
What can go wrong
Stated, not buried.
- 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
Measured 2026-08-10
Why it is still research.
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.
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.
Primary sources
Checked, dated, linked.
- 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