What is aegis-protocol CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for AEGIS Protocol, software that uses blockchain escrow to manage payments and disputes between AI agents. It describes the project's smart contracts, agent identity and reputation standards, stablecoin payments, and job workflow.

Use it when working on AEGIS contracts, escrow jobs, dispute handling, fees, agent validation, or integrations with ERC-8004 and x402.

It gives a coding agent the project background needed to change the right part of a system where payment, delivery checks, and disputes are connected. It also explains the project's core architecture and its role in agent transactions.

How im-sham/aegis-protocol configures Claude Code

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CLAUDE.md · 246 lines

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AEGIS Protocol — Claude Code Project Context

What This Is

AEGIS (Agent Escrow & Governance Infrastructure Standard) is trustless escrow middleware for AI agent-to-agent transactions. It composes two bleeding-edge standards:

ERC-8004 (Trustless Agents, mainnet Jan 29 2026) — on-chain agent identity, reputation, and work validation
x402 (Coinbase, V2 Dec 2025) — HTTP-native stablecoin payments for AI agents

AEGIS answers the question neither standard addresses: "What if the agent takes payment and delivers garbage?"

One-liner: "AEGIS is to the agent economy what Stripe was to e-commerce — the trust layer that makes autonomous transactions safe enough to happen at scale."

Core Architecture

Contract Stack (4 contracts, Solidity 0.8.24, Foundry, Base L2)

Contract	Purpose
`AegisEscrow.sol`	Core vault. Creates jobs, locks USDC, routes through ERC-8004 Validation Registry, auto-settles or opens dispute window
`AegisDispute.sol`	3-tier dispute resolution: (1) automated re-validation, (2) staked arbitrator, (3) timeout default
`AegisTreasury.sol`	Fee collection with treasury/arbitrator pool split
`AegisJobFactory.sol`	Template system for standardized job types (code-review, data-analysis, etc.)

Job State Machine

CREATED → FUNDED → DELIVERED → VALIDATING → SETTLED
                                    ↘ DISPUTE_WINDOW → DISPUTED → RESOLVED
           ↘ EXPIRED → REFUNDED
CREATED → CANCELLED (before funding)

ERC-8004 Integration (Critical — This Is Our Moat)

READS from ERC-8004:

Identity Registry: ownerOf(), getAgentWallet() — verify agents exist, resolve payment addresses
Reputation Registry: getSummary() — pre-job reputation check (REQUIRES clientAddresses array to prevent Sybil)
Validation Registry: getValidationStatus() — read work validation scores (0-100)

WRITES to ERC-8004:

Reputation Registry: giveFeedback() — auto-submit on every settlement with proof-of-payment
Validation Registry: validationRequest() — trigger work verification on deliverable submission

Read the full file on GitHub · 246 lines

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aegis-protocol CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository im-sham/aegis-protocol (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3,561 tokens to every session, about $0.0142 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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