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chio finding

Publish, search, verify, and buy findings on the cognition market, and challenge a finding whose claim you dispute.

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chio finding

Publish, discover, verify, and purchase cognition-market findings.

Command synopsistext
chio finding [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

chio finding operator

Initialize, serve, or reconcile a single-operator cognition market.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

chio finding operator init

Create a strict local operator profile and its durable stores.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator init [OPTIONS] --directory <DIRECTORY> --repository-root <REPOSITORY_ROOT>
  • --directory <DIRECTORY> New or empty deployment directory. Required.
  • --listen <LISTEN> HTTP address for the operator service. Default 127.0.0.1:7143.
  • --repository-root <REPOSITORY_ROOT> Existing root containing every seller-accessible source repository. Required.
  • --buyer-principal <BUYER_PRINCIPAL> Initial buyer principal installed in the profile. Default coding-agent-buyer.
  • --buyer-payout <BUYER_PAYOUT> Canonical EVM destination used for initial buyer compensation. Default 0x1111111111111111111111111111111111111111.
  • --seller-principal <SELLER_PRINCIPAL> Initial seller principal installed in the profile. Default coding-agent-seller.
  • --seller-payout <SELLER_PAYOUT> Canonical EVM destination used for initial seller proceeds. Default 0x2222222222222222222222222222222222222222.

chio finding operator serve

Run the production-composed purchase service from one profile.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator serve [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical operator profile created by operator init. Required.

chio finding operator tick

Reconcile durable operator work and print current health counters.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator tick [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical operator profile created by operator init. Required.

chio finding operator repair-challenge-retention

Restore missing signed challenge filings in an offline operator database.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator repair-challenge-retention [OPTIONS] --database <DATABASE> --bundle <BUNDLE> --receipt <RECEIPT> --receipt-signing-seed-env <RECEIPT_SIGNING_SEED_ENV>
  • --database <DATABASE> Existing operator SQLite database. Stop every operator process first. Required.
  • --bundle <BUNDLE> Strict canonical repair bundle containing exact signed envelopes. Required.
  • --receipt <RECEIPT> New private file receiving the canonical signed repair receipt. Required.
  • --receipt-signing-seed-env <RECEIPT_SIGNING_SEED_ENV> Environment variable containing the repair authority’s hex seed. Required.

chio finding operator validate-hosted

Validate a hosted profile, its referenced files, and secret references.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator validate-hosted [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical hosted operator profile. Required.

chio finding operator evaluate-canary

Evaluate a bounded hosted canary observation and fail on rollback.

Command synopsistext
chio finding operator evaluate-canary [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE> --observation <OBSERVATION>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical hosted operator profile. Required.
  • --observation <OBSERVATION> Strict canonical audit-authority-signed canary observation. Required.

chio finding package

Build a signed cognition-market package from ordinary development files.

Command synopsistext
chio finding package [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>

chio finding package verified-fix

Prove a failing baseline and passing candidate, then package their patch.

Command synopsistext
chio finding package verified-fix [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE> --repository <REPOSITORY> --base <BASE> --candidate <CANDIDATE> --test <TESTS> --topic <TOPIC>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical operator profile. Required.
  • --repository <REPOSITORY> Git repository containing both revisions. Required.
  • --base <BASE> Baseline commit or revision that must fail at least one test. Required.
  • --candidate <CANDIDATE> Candidate commit or revision that must pass every test. Required.
  • --test <TESTS> Test command. Repeat this flag to run more than one command. Required.
  • --topic <TOPIC> Finding topic used by market discovery. Required.
  • --seller <SELLER> Configured seller principal used to sign the Finding. Default coding-agent-seller.
  • --price <PRICE> Listing price in USD minor units. Default 300.
  • --output <OUTPUT> Output path. Defaults to the profile’s packages directory.

chio finding admit

Admit a verified-fix draft through the running local operator.

Command synopsistext
chio finding admit [OPTIONS] --profile <PROFILE> --package <PACKAGE>
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical operator profile. Required.
  • --package <PACKAGE> Draft emitted by chio finding package verified-fix. Required.

chio finding verify-bundle

Re-run the Rust reference verifier over a public proof bundle.

Command synopsistext
chio finding verify-bundle [OPTIONS] --input <INPUT> --profile <PROFILE>
  • --input <INPUT> Proof bundle file, or - for standard input. Required.
  • --profile <PROFILE> Strict canonical operator profile containing public deployment pins. Required.
  • --purchase-request <PURCHASE_REQUEST> Exact canonical purchase request to bind to an optional result.
  • --purchase-result <PURCHASE_RESULT> Exact canonical purchase result whose signed terminal is verified.

chio finding publish

Publish a canonical chio.finding.v1 artifact to the venue index.

Command synopsistext
chio finding publish [OPTIONS] --file <FILE>
  • --file <FILE> Canonical artifact file. The bytes are sent verbatim; the venue rejects any spelling that is not the canonical serialization. Required.

Search the venue descriptor index.

Command synopsistext
chio finding search [OPTIONS] --topic-prefix <TOPIC_PREFIX>
  • --topic-prefix <TOPIC_PREFIX> Topic prefix to match. Required.
  • --context-sha256 <CONTEXT_SHA256> Optional exact context digest filter (64 lowercase hex characters).
  • --after <AFTER> Resume after this finding id, using the cursor from a prior page.
  • --limit <LIMIT> Maximum number of rows to request. The venue clamps its own bounds.

chio finding verify

Verify a finding: strict canonical ingress first, then the pinned evidence facet report.

Command synopsistext
chio finding verify [OPTIONS]
  • --file <FILE> Local artifact file to verify without contacting a venue.
  • --id <ID> Finding id to fetch verbatim from the venue before verifying.
  • --evidence <EVIDENCE> Resolved evidence bundle: receipts with inclusion proofs, checkpoints, the collateral allocation snapshot, and an optional exact canonical status proof encoded as base64.
  • --recipe <RECIPE> Raw replay-recipe preimage bytes the artifact commits to.
  • --status-rollback-floor <STATUS_ROLLBACK_FLOOR> Durable per-feed status rollback floor. Required whenever the evidence bundle carries a portable status proof. This may point to the same floor file used by chio finding status.
  • --integrity-only Assert artifact integrity alone and name every facet left unevaluated instead of failing on absent evidence.
  • --trust <FILE> Trust file to verify against instead of the default (.chio/trust.toml in the project, then ~/.chio/trust.toml). A trust file beside the input is never read on its own. Reads CHIO_TRUST.

chio finding buy

Purchase a reveal of a published finding.

Command synopsistext
chio finding buy [OPTIONS] --id <ID> --max-price <MAX_PRICE> --currency <CURRENCY>
  • --id <ID> Finding id to purchase. Required.
  • --max-price <MAX_PRICE> Maximum acceptable price in minor units of --currency. Required.
  • --currency <CURRENCY> Currency the price ceiling is denominated in. Required.
  • --payer <PAYER> Buyer principal the purchase context binds.
  • --deadline-secs <DEADLINE_SECS> Seconds the buyer allows for delivery before the failed-delivery terminal applies.
  • --pool-allocation <FILE> Signed chio.finding.pool-allocation.v1; the purchase is debited from the pool and refused if it would exceed the signed amount.

chio finding status

Inspect the venue-verified portable status proof for one finding.

Command synopsistext
chio finding status [OPTIONS] --id <ID> --feed <FEED> --operator-authorization <OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION> --service-bond <SERVICE_BOND> --rollback-floor <ROLLBACK_FLOOR> --max-epoch-age-secs <MAX_EPOCH_AGE_SECS>
  • --id <ID> Finding id whose current status proof should be fetched. Required.
  • --feed <FEED> Governance-pinned status feed configured by the venue. Required.
  • --operator-authorization <OPERATOR_AUTHORIZATION> Governance-pinned status operator authorization (strict canonical JSON). Required.
  • --service-bond <SERVICE_BOND> Governance-pinned current status service bond (strict canonical JSON). Required.
  • --rollback-floor <ROLLBACK_FLOOR> Durable rollback floor; retain its sibling .retractions directory. Required.
  • --max-epoch-age-secs <MAX_EPOCH_AGE_SECS> Maximum accepted age of the signed status epoch in seconds. Required.

chio finding challenge

Open a dispute against one admitted finding listing.

Command synopsistext
chio finding challenge [OPTIONS] --finding <FINDING> --class <CLASS> --evidence <EVIDENCE>
  • --finding <FINDING> Finding id the challenge targets. The venue’s stored artifact is fetched verbatim, re-derived through the strict ingress, and its exact digest is bound into the challenge. Required.
  • --class <CLASS> Mechanical evidence class presented. Must name the same class as the evidence union the document carries; the closed guarantee/evidence compatibility matrix is checked against the fetched finding before anything is signed. Required. Values digest-mismatch, evidence-invalid, replay-contradiction.
  • --evidence <EVIDENCE> Challenge evidence document (JSON). Strict canonical I-JSON: the file bytes must be exactly their own canonical serialization, and every field is required. The document carries the operator-supplied half of the challenge; the fetched artifact supplies schema, challenge_id, finding_id, and finding_artifact_sha256. Every key below, at every depth, is in canonical order, which is the order the file must use. { "affected_deliveries": [ {"checkpoint_ref": "...", "checkpoint_sha256": "<64 hex>", "receipt_id": "...", "receipt_sha256": "<64 hex>"} ], "authorization": {"buyer_submission": {"challenger": "<64 hex>", "dispute_fee_terminal": {...}, "dispute_lock_ref": {...}, "standing": {"failed_delivery": {...}}}} | {"venue_audit": {"audit_epoch_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>", "authorization_digest": "<64 hex>", "selection_digest": "<64 hex>"}}, "evidence": {"digest_mismatch": {"deny_checkpoint_ref": {...}, "deny_receipt_ref": {...}, "failed_delivery_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>"}} | {"evidence_invalid": {"challenged_checkpoint_ref": {...}, "challenged_evidence_receipt_refs": [...], "purchase_record_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>"}} | {"replay_contradiction": { "purchase_record_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>", "recipe_preimage": "<canonical recipe text>", "reproduction": [...]}}, "filed_at": 1750000000, "listing": {"backing_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>", "listing_id": "...", "profile_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>", "terms_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>", "venue_admission_envelope_sha256": "<64 hex>"} } Both unions and every branch member use the registered chio.finding.challenge.v1 spelling. Copy the listing block from the venue’s current signed admission envelope. Required.
  • --challenger-key <CHALLENGER_KEY> Ed25519 seed file for the challenger the document names: 64 hex characters, optional 0x prefix, surrounding whitespace ignored. Required for a buyer submission, because the signer must be that challenger. Refused for a venue audit, which carries no challenger at all.
  • --venue-audit Build the bondless venue-audit branch. The document’s authorization must be the matching branch, so a submission carrying a dispute fee or a dispute bond is refused rather than stripped.
  • --dry-run Emit the canonical challenge, the signed envelope when one was produced, and their digests, without transmitting anything.
Additional behavior

Exactly one authorization branch and exactly one mechanical evidence class per challenge. A buyer submission carries a dispute fee, a dispute bond, and standing, and is signed by the challenger it names. A venue audit carries none of those and is signed by the venue’s pinned audit authority, which this surface does not hold.

Read more in Cognition market.