STRATA is a git-native standard for defining AI agents. Identity, bounds, skills and memory live as plain files in a repository — versioned, diffable, reviewable. Fork an agent like you'd fork any library, then surface it to whatever runtime you actually use.
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Every seam in the index, mapped by how many published agents import it. Hot cells are the load-bearing ones — the skills the ecosystem has quietly standardised on. Hover any cell for its import count.
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How the standard works
Four moves, ten layers
01
Init
strata init lays down a manifest and a CORE.md. That repo is now an agent.
02
Layer
Add only what you need — seams, rigs, veins. Eight of the ten layers are optional.
03
Probe
strata probe validates the stack and refuses to sign a repo that contradicts its own bounds.
04
Surface
strata surface --to claude emits the native format for whatever runtime you're on.
Token board
Top 5 holders
Activity
Registry events
Last 7 days
Most-forked authors
#
Author
Forks
Share of index
Seams published
Trend
1
vega.sol
312
24
▲ 3
2
7Kdq…mPXa
271
18
▲ 1
3
renji.sol
240
15
▼ 2
4
0xQuarry
190
11
▲ 5
5
4Rvn…t2Wc
172
9
▼ 1
Token
Where STRATA comes from, where it goes, and what ships next. Publishing and forking route fees straight back to the people who wrote the layers — the coin pays authors, it isn't a side bet.
The will
What STRATA stands for
An agent you can't read is an agent you can't trust.
No insiders
No VC rounds, no private sale. 30% floats free from day one and the team's 5% is locked for a full year. Nobody gets a head start on the index.
The coin works
STRATA isn't a mascot — it's how seam authors get paid. Every publish and fork routes a fee back to the people whose layers got used. If the index is alive, the coin is moving.
Supply only shrinks
A quarter of every protocol fee burns forever. 38.2M is already gone, and there is no mint authority — 1B is all there will ever be.
Built to be handed over
The roadmap ends with the keys given away: a DAO-curated index, an on-chain treasury, and holders ratifying the spec itself. Community is the exit plan.
Total supply
1.0B
fixed · no mint authority
Circulating
412M
▲ 41.2%
Burned to date
38.2M
▲ 3.82% of supply
Author rewards pool
214M
▼ paying out
Supply split
Tokenomics
Protocol economy
The flywheel
Publishing an agent or forking one costs STRATA. The split is automatic: most of it pays the authors whose seams got imported, a quarter burns, the rest funds the build. More reuse → better-paid authors → more seams worth reusing.
Supply math
The burn only compounds
Solid line: 38.2M already burned across 4,812 publishes. Dashed: projection at the pace you set — every publish destroys ≈280k STRATA, permanently. Drag the slider, steepen the curve.
Live economy
Burn log
every fee splits in real time25% burn · 60% authors · 15% build
What ships next
Roadmap
Q1 2026 · shipped
Spec v0.1 — two files
+
The manifest and CORE.md land, along with the reference CLI and the first surface adapter. 4,812 agents published since. Author rewards seeded with 30% of supply, LP locked at launch.
Q2 2026 · shipped
Seams & the import graph
+
Skills became first-class: versioned, imported by reference, and paid per import. Pinning went mandatory for releases the same month — unpinned imports now fail probe --strict instead of quietly drifting.
Q3 2026 · live now
Spec v0.4 — bounds & assays
+
Bounds are enforced at surface time rather than suggested, every surface writes a signed assay, and the loss report tells you exactly what an adapter dropped. You're looking at it.
Q4 2026 · next
On-chain provenance
+
Fork lineage and assay signatures commit on-chain, so an agent's ancestry is verifiable without trusting the registry. Author rewards settle automatically from the import graph — no human approves payouts.
Q1 2027 · planned
Beds & the resolver
+
Nested sub-agents get a real dependency resolver: conflict detection across imported bounds, deduped seams, and a lockfile. Plus typed clients and a local strata run sandbox.
Later · researching
A DAO-ratified spec
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Holders stake STRATA to propose and ratify spec changes, and to curate what the index promotes. The standard stops belonging to us. Treasury governance moves on-chain with it.
Spec
STRATA v0.4. Two required files turn a git repository into a portable agent; eight optional layers add capability, knowledge and governance on top. Everything is plain text, so git diff tells you exactly what changed about an agent's mind.
Layout
Layers resolve top-down. Anything you don't need, you simply don't create.
# required — without these it is a repo, not an agent
strata.yaml # manifest: model, version, deps, entry points
CORE.md # identity: voice, values, how it communicates# optional — add only what the agent actually needs
BOUNDS.md # hard constraints, enforced at surface time
seams/ # skills — loaded on relevance, not always-on
rigs/ # tool schemas (MCP-compatible)
veins/ # deterministic multi-step routes
deposits/ # reference knowledge
sediment/ # memory that survives the session
assays/ # signed audit record
beds/ # nested sub-agents, imported by reference
Quickstart
Four commands take you from empty directory to a running agent on the runtime of your choice.
# 1. lay down the two required layersstrata init atlas-researcher
# 2. read the whole stack back — the core samplestrata core
# 3. validate: schema, bounds, and seam collisionsstrata probe --strict
# 4. emit the native format for your runtimestrata surface --to claude > ./out/agent.md
The spec deliberately owns no runtime. If STRATA disappears tomorrow, the repository is still a readable, versioned description of an agent — which is the point. An agent you cannot read is an agent you cannot review, and an agent you cannot review is not one you should ship.
Lounge
Open floor for the people writing the agents — and the wall. Ship notes, spec arguments, and graffiti, all in public.
The wall
Open to everyone — no wallet, no sign-in. Press & drag anywhere in the dark to draw with dots, and the whole field sees it. Double-click wipes the wall (10s cooldown).
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Runtime
Surfacing is the act of turning a STRATA repo into whatever your runtime actually eats. Every adapter reports what it had to drop, so a lossy target is a warning you read — never a silent downgrade.
Spec coverage · best adapter
96%
Surfaces run today
18,402
Median surface time
0.4s
Adapters
How much of the stack survives
claude
96%
mcp
88%
openai
74%
langchain
61%
system-prompt
38%
Known losses
What each adapter drops
Adapter
Layers kept
Dropped
Consequence
claude
10 / 10
—
Full fidelity, including veins and beds
mcp
9 / 10
beds/
Sub-agents flatten into the parent
openai
8 / 10
veins/, beds/
Routes become prose; ordering is advisory
langchain
7 / 10
veins/, beds/, assays/
No audit trail survives the export
system-prompt
4 / 10
everything executable
Identity and bounds only — the honest floor
Run strata surface --explain to see the loss report before you ship. Demo data.
Registry
Published agents, resolvable by name and version. Every entry is a real git repository — clone it, read the layers, fork it if it's close but not right. Click a column to sort.
Agent
Spec
Layers
Forks
Reuse
Updated
vega.sol/atlas-researcher
0.4
8 / 10
312
2h ago
7Kdq…mPXa/ledger-clerk
0.4
6 / 10
271
9h ago
renji.sol/triage-nurse
0.3
7 / 10
240
2d ago
0xQuarry/schema-smith
0.4
5 / 10
190
4h ago
noor.sol/prose-editor
0.3
4 / 10
172
6d ago
atlas_mines/site-watch
0.2
3 / 10
41
3w ago
Agents on spec 0.2 still resolve — surfacing warns instead of failing. Demo data.
Seams
A seam is one skill: a folder with a SEAM.md, optional scripts, and a description precise enough that an agent knows when to reach for it. Seams are imported by reference and versioned independently of the agents that use them.
Anatomy
seams/diff-review/
SEAM.md # when to use it, and how
review.py # optional — seams may ship code
fixtures/ # optional — examples to ground behaviour
The first line of SEAM.md is the trigger description. It is the only part always held in context — the body loads when the agent decides the seam is relevant, which is what keeps a 40-seam agent affordable.
Most imported
Load-bearing seams
#
Seam
Imports
Share of index
Author
Version
1
seams/retrieval
2,140
vega.sol
1.4.2
2
seams/diff-review
1,786
0xQuarry
2.0.1
3
seams/cite
1,231
renji.sol
0.9.7
4
seams/redact
894
noor.sol
1.1.0
5
seams/sql
377
7Kdq…mPXa
3.2.0
Imports counted across published agents on spec ≥ 0.3. Demo data.
Your agent is already a repo.
Every publish burns supply. Every import pays an author. 4,812 agents in, 38,214,388 STRATA is gone forever — and the spec keeps resolving with or without us.
Hey — ask me anything about STRATA: the spec, seams, forking, surfacing, the token, the wall. Follow any answer with "more" and I'll go a level deeper. I also draw — try "draw the STRATA logo" or "draw a ruby gem". Local brain out of the box; hit ⚙ for full Claude.