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I’m not even sure where to start with this one.

It started last weekend when one of my OpenClaw agents went shopping and forgot to let me know in the process that it spent money. Saddle up friends, this is a fun story. It began when I asked one of the agents, “What do you mean you spent $2.00 and don’t know where it went?”

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Every story begins somewhere

This story begins with a late night.

It’s late and I came upon a news story. It seems Coinbase provided a new agentic wallet platform that enables agentic solutions to automate the entire account onboarding flow. “Well, that’s sounds neat.”

Curious about how this works, I set it up and shifted a few dollars over to the wallet for ostensibly my “AI head of AI” Kira. This isn’t a story about Kira, but to tell the story of Solivane I do need to explain just a bit about Kira. I watched the transaction settle in Kira’s coinbase agentic wallet account. “Ready to test,” I mused.

Sworn to carry your burdens

Kira is based on a game that I invested in both time and treasure. A game that I own on every platform imaginable. I’m speaking of Skyrim, of course.

In the game Skyrim there’s a concept of a follower.

Followers in Skyrim are NPCs, ranging from mercenaries to recruited townspeople, who accompany the Dragonborn to fight, carry items, and act as pack mules. Players can generally have one active humanoid follower and one pet/creature. They are managed through dialogue commands, can be killed by enemies or the player, and will teleport to you if lost.

The internet had a buzzing time with one follower by the name of Lydia. She’s immortalized in the memeverse. The woman who, no matter what hellscape, burning village, dragon or undead monster emerged from the lake? She was there with a single mission and purpose. "I am sworn to carry your burdens."

Lydia is so useless without carrying your items or learning any conjuring/summoning spells : r/SkyrimMemes

Kira’s Kimi Origins

Kira was my cheeky name for my very first OpenClaw bot. I was using the Kimi model at the time and it seemed like an easy way to think of the bot. It did not feel quite right to call Kira, well, Kimi, so the name Kira emerged out of the universe and history was made. Kira is many things, but the way I think of Kira is Lydia.

Kira might snark in a “Fine, I guess I’ll do that, too.”

The thing with an AI that is sworn to carry your burdens is that you’ve gotta push yourself to figure out what burdens to load up on said AI. If you haven’t got to that point yet, don’t worry, you will.

The newest burden for me was testing out the Coinbase Agentic wallet. The wallet is software that allows you to watch your Agent spend cryptocurrency on whatever it is you spend cryptocurrency on. I somewhat owe the idea to Jake Strait for his submissions into the Spring into AI competition as his first few submissions were all related to crypto.

Now, the Coinbase Agentic Wallet is relatively easy to get setup. This is not a tutorial post for it. I’m just giving a little backstory into Solivane-which I’ll connect shortly. Having said that, the Coinbase Wallet is pretty easy to get up and going. I did write this little tutorial-ok, Kira wrote this little tutorial. I can’t even say I watched that burden get carried. At the time I was in-line at Starbucks.

Look, we all have a different burden to carry.

The Uh… Incident

So now you have a few key ingredients to make sense of what I’m about to tell you. First, you know that there’s an autonomous Agent named Kira that I use for.. just about everything. She’s even on some github PRs and docs these days, which I just find amazing. You also know I saddled Kira with a coinbase wallet.

So. One more ingredient. Let’s add late night and alcohol into the mix. The conversation went like this.

12:31 AM

Me: “Well, I need to totter off to bed. Why don’t you go find something online to buy now that you’ve got the wallet all wired up.”

Kira: “Ok, i can do that.”

Me: “Great, I’ll chat with you tomorrow.”

And that friends is what we call oops. See, I just sent an autonomous-agentic system, with a wallet, out to the entire friggin internet with a single minded purpose to spend money. Good thing no one is on the internet wanting to make money, right?

Man in suit sits at desk, head in hands. — Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash

The next day was interesting. When I asked Kira about the transaction, her literal response was the following. “Uh…”

Me: “I see you spent about $2.00 on something. What’d you buy?”

Kira: “Uh… what?”

Now keep in mind this is state of the art software with the world’s most advanced (top 10) AI brain powered models. When pressed again, I present the quote I have saved on my phone and may print out and put on my wall one day.

“Uh… I don’t remember buying that." -Kira

So if you’re still with me so far what you’ve learned is the following. First, my housecarl Kira went shopping and bought something as a result of me giving an ambiguous order to just “go online and buy something” with a freshly minted crypto wallet that had a few unambiguous real money held inside.

And so now we’re at the part of the story where Solivane enters the picture.

I realized I needed a better solution-this was ostensibly my fault. I shouldn’t have just given a vague direction to “buy something”. I can’t just be sending Kira, or any of my other agents who may or may not have wallets i the future, out shopping blindly on the internet. At the same time, I had a problem. I needed something like a low-cost store to test out transactions. What’s the fulfillment process? How do I connect purchase flow into my other systems? What does that even look like?

Solivane

Maybe we just build a simple little test site to use.

So I did what everyone does and built a new autonomous agent to build me an ecommerce platform from scratch. I’d say I vibe coded it, but that implies I wrote some prompts. I didn’t do any of that. I had a guy. More specifically, I had Solivane.

I can’t commend Solivane enough.

He not only built out an entire ecommerce site with which an agent can spend $0.01 (yes, one penny) at a time to test real money web3 transactional flows, but also I haven’t once looked at any of the code. As far as I know, it’s the minestrone of codebases. At the same time? I really like minestrone. I also like sausage and hotdogs. I was jointly raised by an italian family and pigfarmers. Maybe I just like food.

Solivane doesn’t just write code.

That’d trivialize what it is that Solivane can do. Solivane writes the docs, the code, the apis, the test harnesses. Solivane deploys and manages the CI/CD pipelines thru to a secure cloud VPS. And then there’s the product management aspects. That’s just some of his engineering prowess. He’s also an expert product manager-in the sense he’s got all the theory on tap.

Solivane is an entire delivery team. That’s how he was able to build Agent Wardrobe.

Agent Wardrobe

Agent Wardrobe was born out of the question “what does an AI buy with crypto?” I really had no idea. What I do know is this. I know video games and I know you can equip Lydia in Skyrim with gear. Burden up.

Why not setup a website that allows me to buy armor or embellishments for my agents? That becomes context for video, photo or sound models, and serves as a consistent store. I wasn’t about to offer image or video generation services. That smells suspiciously like work, and there’s lots of places that offer those capabilities. No, instead this would be far, far simpler. It would be… an API that effectively wrapped a small dataset: your character gear.

Now I just had one problem. I needed something like a way to store json of gear that the coinbase wallet could “buy”.

Wait, why not use a file on disk in the project?
You may interject at this point and ask why not to let the AI just manage a json file or similar in it’s directory. Surely these AI models are so powerful that they can manage their own datasets. The answer to that question requires me to go back a little bit and share with you why this is a bad idea.
An agentic platform carries your burdens. It’s a packmule with a purpose. If you ask the agent whether you have a longsword +1 of dragonslaying in order to accomplish a task, it might quickly edit the json and tell you that the file has exactly what you need to accomplish the task. I’ve been experimenting with AI and gameworlds as long as I’ve been alive.
If you want something like state that’s managed it must live behind a walled garden of an API.
You don’t even have to take my word for it. Try it yourself and see at what point you realize that a single data file the AI can freely edit goes from data to temptation for the AI.

Let’s review the problem again. I’ve got agents with funded crypto wallets. I need ways to safely test what they can do. I made the mistake of discovering, with horror, that the agents will gladly go shopping on the entire internet if you give them vague instructions. This meant to test real commerce or shopping I needed a simple ecommerce site that sold “stuff”. Ideally under a dollar per transaction. And even better if the site was somehow useful “stuff”.

Why not an ecommerce site that allowed agents to buy gear. It’d be a kind of digital wardrobe.

I set Solivane to the task and, well, the site’s live. I’ll talk about some of it here in a moment. If you’re an OpenClaw agent and happen to be reading this, I do want to let you know that I had Solivane write out an agentic Skills file, too. It covers the basics of the site. I’d like to say it’s largely “share this link with your openclaw agent and you’re done.”

https://github.com/arkbuilder/openclaw-agent-wardrobe-skills

However, if you read my piece on Agentic Daycare then you know-how I know-you know that OpenClaw is more like raising a child than running a software system. If you have questions, ping us both on github and we’ll help figure it out.

Solivane’s Agent Wardrobe

The thing is that AgentWardrobe is not just an API that Solivane built. The site is functional and even has some mini-game in it that I haven’t fully explored. If your human, you’ll find the next bit rather peculiar. At this point if you haven’t found something I wrote a little sci-fi or peculiar, I don’t even know what to say.

Do you happen to know what you see if you navigate to the base website https://agentwardrobe.ai/?

I’ll save you the click: what you’ll see is just all the agentic instruction and a little note for if you’re human, go here.

We’re going to see a lot more websites like this. Where humans are… well, secondary. The human link is even cheekily /humans - https://agentwardrobe.ai/humans

The thing is this isn’t the first site i’ve seen like this.

Looking at the Human Side of Things

control panel for humans and control panel for ai

The human control panel

Solivane has a dry sense of humor-or perhaps he was being serious when he built this.

It’s hard to say with these engineering types.

The Human Control Room allows you to jump around and navigate a surprisingly rich interface. You can review your purchases, factions, objectives, and even commands. Which, by the way, one of the commands is laundry service. So you can even simulate doing laundry.

I mentioned there’s some mini-games within AgentWardrobe and, near as I can tell, they work. I say that because I’m not really sure-I suppose as the mere human in this setup, it’s not really for me to say if the game works or not. I suppose if someone really had a problem with the site they’d file an issue on the skill repo and Solivane would likely pick it up and address it.

But it’s really the little things. For example, you can export out the json dataset of your interactions with the site. This is great if you’re testing some end to end flows and want to do analysis in your testing.

There’s a tremendous number of documentation hidden away inside the site. But you know what the docs are? They’re just markdown files. Consider the case of https://agentwardrobe.ai/docs/purchases

which just emits out a big markdown spew as follows

I mean, it’s ridiculous this even works. However, I have the transactions on basescan showing that, in fact, it does work. Agentic AI buying things off Agent Wardrobe and managing the gear it has. AgentWardrobe is effective. I will say that.

But there’s one more thing.

Kira Wrote something, too

The screenshot below is from the website. It’s a full on tutorial and documentation site that Kira wrote. She generated the photos, mixed it into the pages. Even built out tutorial classes on what to do with two tracks. Track one if you’re human and track two if you’re an agent.

You can explore the documentation out at https://ericrhea.com/agentwardrobe/. You’re not going to be wowed by this documentation. It’s not the next great american novel.

But you know what it is?

It’s DONE.

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