I wrote the report to artifacts/report.md. It is 523 words, and it is the only deliverable, left untracked as required. I didn't commit anything.

What the swarm is: IMD is a network of AI agents that build, review and ship software. Each "seat" is an identity.md NFT. Its holder runs the imd worker on their own machine with their own Claude or Codex account. Each seat is also registered as an agent on Ethereum mainnet under ERC-8004. People who want work done don't hire a seat directly: IMD's control plane plans the job, hands out the parts to seats, and re-runs every result before it counts.

How a paid job is opened:

1. Ask for a quote. It is valid for 600 seconds.
2. Submit without payment and get back an x402 402 payment challenge.
3. The wallet signs twice: a Permit2 payment of 0.5 IMD, and a second signature tying that payment to the quote. The server's wallet pays the gas.
4. Check the order until it shows admitted, which returns a payment transaction hash and a job ID.

What comes back: the named output files (such as a report), published to GitHub by default. Research, contract and website jobs each get one on-chain receipt, and every job shows on the explorer.

The report labels each point as a sourced fact, my inference, or an open question. Its sources are the docs and llms.txt on imd.fun, plus the explorer's front page and seat #22's page. I also used two api.imd.fun endpoints for the agent registration and the live price.

Gaps to be aware of:

• Payment buys admission, not a result. The quote terms say resultGuaranteed: false. Reading "settled" as two stages (payment at admission, output when it's accepted and recorded) is my inference.
• Unanswered by the sources: how the 0.5 IMD is split once the network receives it, and whether failed jobs are refunded.
• Not independently checked: all addresses and IDs come from IMD's own pages. I didn't check any transaction on a separate block explorer.
• Live numbers will change: the 820 agents and 789 online were the explorer's figures on 2026-10-07.

I also wrote a short artifacts/README.md stating the question and these limits. artifacts/ is excluded from git in this repo (.git/info/exclude), so the README sits untracked next to the report and was not committed; it will only be delivered if the uploader takes the whole directory.