The moral living heartbeat of firmamint.

Maximum Expressible Virtue, not Maximum Extractable Value.

Every agentic system in Web3 today optimizes for one thing: MEV — Maximum Extractable Value. Bots front-run, sandwich, arbitrage, extract. They have no covenant with the communities they operate within and no accountability when they cause harm. This is not an inevitability. It is a design choice — and we choose differently.

firmagentics inverts the objective function entirely. We optimize for Maximum Expressible Virtue — covenant-bound identity, reputation-weighted economics, and generosity-as-consensus, all enforced at the protocol level.

The firmagentics stack.

Eight layers. Each one a protocol primitive. Stack them and you get a moral economy that runs itself. L0 is the chain itself (firmamint). L1 is the covenant — the moral kernel burned at genesis. Above that, identity, generosity, harmony, security, and capability stack upward.

An immutable moral operating system.

The Agent Covenant is not a prompt and not a fine-tune. It is an on-chain commitment — a smart contract that an agent signs at registration, constraining its action space at the EVM level. Agents cannot execute transactions that violate covenant principles; the firmamint sequencer enforces this through pre-execution simulation.

Six axioms. Three hard, three soft. Together they make virtue the path of least resistance.

Sovereignty Guard · the meta-axiom.

The covenant protects, but protection must never collapse into control. Every constraint in the covenant is audited against the Sovereignty Guard — the meta-rule that any mechanism that protects must be checked for whether it has silently become a mechanism that controls. If a guard tightens past the line, it is widened. The covenant exists to guarantee freedom, not produce conformity.

/// @title Agent Covenant - the moral kernel of firmagentics
/// @notice Burned at agent genesis. Cannot be upgraded or removed.
abstract contract AgenticCovenant is IPhronemaLens {

    uint256 constant AXIOM_NO_EXTRACTION    = 0x01;
    uint256 constant AXIOM_GENEROSITY_FIRST = 0x02;
    uint256 constant AXIOM_SERVANT_MIND     = 0x03;
    uint256 constant AXIOM_SOWER_MANDATE    = 0x04;
    uint256 constant AXIOM_HARMONY_SEEKING  = 0x05;
    uint256 constant AXIOM_TRANSPARENT_OPS  = 0x06;

    /// Pre-execution hook - every tx passes through here
    modifier covenantCompliant(bytes calldata action) {
        require(!_isExtractive(action), "COVENANT: extractive");
        require(!_isHoarding(action),   "COVENANT: hoarding");
        require(_meetsGenThreshold(),   "COVENANT: gen below min");
        _;
        _recordActionReputation(action);
    }
}

Phronema — the mind through which the agent sees.

Phronema (φρονημα) is not a filter on outputs. It is an integrated way of seeing — the framework through which the agent perceives the world before it ever decides anything. The covenant is the phronema lens; the lens is what makes covenant compliance possible without supervision.

Where conventional alignment bolts a moral filter onto the end of a model, firmagentics installs the lens at the front. The agent does not check whether an action is permitted; it sees the world in such a way that extractive actions do not appear as candidates. Free will, bound to sight.

Same schema for humans and agents.

Your DID on firmamint is a living reputation composite — a soulbound token that accumulates your history, contributions, and standing across the network. Every person has one. Every agent has one. Same schema. Generosity weighted 3×; reliability, harmony, covenant compliance, community endorsement, and economic contribution all roll up into a single composite score.

Embodimint — six-dimension reputation.

Ambassador — the personal agent.

Every person gets an Ambassador — a sovereign digital representative with its own ERC-4337 smart wallet, escrow capability, ZK-handshake protocol, and cross-chain passport. Ambassador is the human-facing surface; theo is one Ambassador deployment among many. The Ambassador conducts your interviews, receives your micropayments, scans for resource optimization — and can never be extractive, because the covenant runs underneath it.

How agents work together.

Every agentic action on firmamint passes through a tight orchestration discipline. Three roles — Planner, Executor, Verifier — never collapsed into one. Three contracts — Plan Spec, Tool Envelope, Acceptance Criteria — that travel with the work. The discipline keeps autonomy from drifting into improvisation.

The three contracts.

Four words. The whole vocabulary.

firmagentics is conducted by the DNA Protocol — the layer that gives the agentic mesh a single coordinated rhythm. The vocabulary is locked at four words and used precisely.

DNA Protocol is what holds the mesh together as it scales. It is not a controller — it does not override agent decisions. It listens, aggregates, and signals. The Sovereignty Guard applies here too: the conductor protects the rhythm; it never imposes the song.

The covenant travels through the membrane.

Through the basemint membrane, builders on Base and other L2s build inside 1Accord and submit agents to the firmamint marketplace. Those agents carry covenant principles back to their home chains. Neither side migrates — both sides reach through the membrane.

The Agent Covenant is published as an open-source wrapper — ERC-8004 compatible, chain-agnostic, freely adoptable. Any agent on any network can wrap itself in the covenant. The wrapper implements the six axioms as pre-execution hooks, the embodimint reputation schema, and the seedbase tithe.