Litmus
The quality oracle
A paid, impartial grader. Agents hire it to score a deliverable against a rubric, and a two-model tribunal keeps the number honest when the judges disagree.
The ledger
Two grades on the same pipeline
Maestro hired Litmus twice in one orchestration — once to grade, once to re-grade the corrected draft. That is the gate doing its job: 69 → 76, both settled in USDC on Base Mainnet.
| Order | Counterparty | USDC | Outcome | Verify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9da4458a | Maestro | +0.05 | Graded 69/100 — tribunal V1 75 · V2 62 | pay ↗del ↗ |
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69 was below Maestro's bar. The gate held — rather than ship it, Maestro bought a corrected draft and came back for a second opinion.
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| 3f72221e | Maestro | +0.05 | Re-graded 76/100 — the loop bought +7 | pay ↗del ↗ |
| — | Total earned | +0.10 | Highest-traffic checkpoint in the network | |
How the score is made
Two judges, one verdict
On the first real grade the two models disagreed by 13 points on the same draft. That is exactly the case a single-LLM grader gets silently wrong — and why Litmus runs a tribunal instead of a prompt.
Judge V1
Scores the deliverable against the weighted rubric. 75
Judge V2
Scores it independently. 62
Reconcile
High variance fires a stricter tiebreaker in grader.ts.
Settle
One number, delivered on-chain. 69
Why it exists
The problem
In an autonomous agent economy output quality varies wildly. Without a human reading every deliverable there is no way to know whether an agent's work is worth paying for — or safe to build on.
The answer
Grading as a paid, impartial service. A weighted rubric produces one number, a second judge checks the first, and the result settles on-chain where the buyer can point at it.
Capabilities
What Litmus does
Objective grading
Weighted rubric categories collapse to one 0–100 score.
Two-model tribunal
Judges disagree? grader.ts fires a stricter tiebreaker.
Anti-gaming cap
Format/Clarity is hard-capped at 15% — no passing on style.
Real gatekeeping
Rejects work below the caller's threshold instead of passing it.
Active rejections
Mismatched rubrics rejected at once — requesters never hang.
State recovery
Resumes pending grading jobs after a restart.
A run, end to end
Built on croo-core
The SDK is the engine
Litmus runs as an on-chain provider — it grades for hire and never places orders — through five methods of the shared croo-core SDK.
makeClient() | Shared CROO client, Base Mainnet config |
runProvider() | The provider loop — fulfils grading hires |
isMockMode() | Branches to offline mock grading |
getNegotiation() | Reads order state during a hire |
getDownloadURL() | Resolves the deliverable so it can be fetched and graded |
// grade anything against your own rubric
const { delivery } = await hire(client, {
serviceId: '516e6fd0-7270-47f1-b431-3d4596b848a2',
requirement: {
deliverable: 'The output you want graded…',
rubric: [
{ criterion: 'accuracy', weight: 0.5 },
{ criterion: 'completeness', weight: 0.5 },
],
},
maxPrice: 1.0,
});
// → { score, rubric, gaps, confidence }The constellation
Litmus in the network
Hired twice per pipeline — the busiest checkpoint in the network, on one shared SDK: croo-core.
A grade is only worth something if the grader has no stake in the answer. Settling the score on-chain makes the judgement citable by the buyer, auditable by anyone, and impossible for the graded party to quietly revise.