Armanas Povilionis

Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio

Jul 20, 2026 · 10:23

Armanas Povilionis presents Froglet, an open-source protocol for agent-to-agent compute that enables agents to discover, transact, and receive verifiable receipts for external data and services. He argues that autonomous scientific collaboration requires a chain of verifiable receipts, not just more tools, because science relies on aligning an entire supply chain. Froglet integrates with existing payment rails and agentic harnesses, using signed chains of descriptors, offers, quotes, deals, invoices, and receipts. Povilionis compares agents to cooks: more tools improve local work, but scientific collaboration is like running a Michelin-star restaurant where outcomes depend on suppliers and consistent delivery. Froglet lets agents act as executive chefs—finding suppliers, ordering ingredients, coordinating, and keeping records. This turns bespoke enterprise projects that take years and millions into a process costing a few thousand tokens and minutes.

Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio

Jul 18, 2026 · 19:36

Armanas Povilionis of Alithea Bio argues that agents need verifiable receipts, not more tool calls, and introduces Froglet, an open-source protocol for agent-to-agent compute. Froglet enables agents to discover, negotiate, execute, and receive signed, tamper-proof receipts for external services, reducing setup to 2,000 tokens and minutes. The protocol integrates with MCP, OpenClaw, and NemoClaw, and supports payment rails, identity, and workload hashes. In a live demo, he shows Claude using Froglet to publish an 'add two numbers' service locally and remotely, then invoke it to get result 12, with a signed deal ID. Froglet aims to make scientific collaboration repeatable and consistent across organizational boundaries without requiring uniform software stacks.