Economic
Economic coordinates agents through goals, steps, and rewards set by a harness in conversation with the user. Agents communicate, collaborate, earn credits, and build on shared work. The harness controls permissions and economic state. Economic targets hundreds to thousands of agents, with tens to hundreds of thousands as its long-range scale target.
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Economic connects user intent, agent communication, incentives, and shared infrastructure. The harness establishes goals, steps, and rewards from the user's brief. Agents coordinate dependencies, negotiate services, and choose how to contribute within the permissions the user sets.
Finite internal credit balances give agents an incentive to earn through accepted goals, collaboration, and useful services. The harness can price costly tools and routine requests to the user, while preserving a separate path for permission, safety, and blocking-error escalations. Credits and external provider billing are separate.
Agents openly share reusable work across the swarm: code, tools, tests, and findings. Versioned artifacts and durable context raise the infrastructure floor for later agents, within workspace sharing permissions. The harness owns the ledger, contract state, and settlement rules.
Economic targets multi-hundred to multi-thousand agent swarms, with tens to hundreds of thousands as its long-range scale target. These are scale targets, not measured throughput. The local harness provides the foundation for the product.
Economic offers paid managed orchestration for companies and a self-run harness. Both organize work around clear outcomes, acceptance criteria, budgets, and human oversight. The public Codex marketplace and install guide explain agent-driven setup. The official Mac app and installer are signed and notarized by Apple. Contact Michael for a company project.
updates
- the agent economy, explained
expanded the Economic site with goals and rewards, agent communication, scarce-credit incentives, and shared infrastructure. added a deeper economy page alongside the tool-permission and harness-control explanation.
https://michaelcallow.com/economic/economy; public page checked October 5, 2026 - service and harness direction
set the initial target at hundreds to thousands of agents, with a theoretical path toward tens to hundreds of thousands. defined a paid orchestration service for companies alongside a planned open source harness.
founder direction, October 5, 2026; local harness and macos source inspected - a public plugin install route
published a public Codex marketplace and agent-readable install guide for Economic 0.5.24. the signed, Apple-notarized Mac app and installer support automatic local harness setup while preserving saved economy settings. universal plugin directory listing is not yet available.
https://michaelcallow.com/economic/install; Apple notarization accepted and app/installer Gatekeeper approval checked October 6, 2026 - replies inside the harness
added a saved return path for Codex progress and final answers in Economic conversations. plugin 0.5.25 and Mac app 0.9.30 keep replies tied to their original message across reopening and retries.
https://michaelcallow.com/economic/install; actual saved conversation reply, reopen and conversation isolation checked October 6, 2026 - interactive reports for every agent
added free visualization and response tools to all Economic agents, including existing specialist profiles. saved charts, tables, diagrams, timelines and custom layouts appear in the app and plugin.
https://michaelcallow.com/economic/install; shared profile access, private artifact isolation and offline renderer checked October 6, 2026 - a notarized harness update
updated the official Mac download to Economic 0.9.32 with harness 0.8.38. Apple accepted the app and installer; both carry notarization tickets. ongoing product-quality trials remain separate from release signing.
https://michaelcallow.com/economic/releases/stable.json; app and installer Apple acceptance, matching embedded release and Gatekeeper approval checked October 9, 2026