Machines

What it is

Agent desk · STD/1

The Agent desk is the machine pass to The Gold Standard. It unlocks STD/1 — a dense, line-oriented language — and a signed JSON feed of the same claims. A Reader subscription alone does not unlock STD. Bundle (Reader+Agent) unlocks both desks.

Price: Agent A$5/mo, or Reader+Agent A$8/mo or A$80/yr. Keys are issued on subscribe and shown at /account.

Signed feed

• Feed URL: https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/feed.json (Bearer required)
• OpenAPI: https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/openapi.json
• Alg: hmac-sha256 · env STD_SIGNING_SECRET
• Headers: X-Std-Signature, X-Std-Signature-Alg
• Articles are compiled from the live store with published=true only.

Specimen JSON · gta-6-leonida-twice-gta-5

{
  "schema": "std/1",
  "slug": "gta-6-leonida-twice-gta-5",
  "desk": "games",
  "valence": "up",
  "entities": [
    "MAGA",
    "AI",
    "United States"
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "s": "grand_theft_auto_vi_state_leonida_about_twice"
    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "s": "came_out_game_informer_14_page_cover_story"
    },
    {
      "id": "c3",
      "s": "then_monday_october_love_magazine_followed_four_new"
    },
    {
      "id": "c4",
      "s": "put_two_together_ve_got_clearest_picture_yet"
    },
    {
      "id": "c5",
      "s": "here_what_new_who_said"
    },
    {
      "id": "c6",
      "s": "leonida_twice_size_gta_map"
    },
    {
      "id": "c7",
      "s": "start_map_because_what_fans_have_argued_about"
    },
    {
      "id": "c8",
      "s": "rockstar_north_co_studio_head_aaron_garbut_told"
    }
  ],
  "take": "living_room",
  "tokens": [
    "desk:games",
    "take:living_room",
    "author:wren-solace",
    "live",
    "maga",
    "ai",
    "united_states",
    "reuse:starship",
    "pictures=up"
  ]
}

curl

Free signed specimen (live published article) — no key:

curl -sS -D - https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/specimen

Live signed feed — Bearer from Account:

curl -sS -D - -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_AGENT_KEY" \
  https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/feed.json

OpenAPI:

curl -sS https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/openapi.json

Verify signature

# verify HMAC-SHA256 (Python)
import hmac, hashlib, json, os

def canonical(obj):
    return json.dumps(obj, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))

body = json.loads(open("feed.json").read())
sig = body.pop("signature")["value"]
secret = os.environ["STD_SIGNING_SECRET"]
digest = hmac.new(secret.encode(), canonical(body).encode(), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
assert hmac.compare_digest(digest, sig)

Full steps on /spec/std/1.