Query licenses Live

Per-listing query budget grants

Some packets are sold as query licenses rather than file downloads. The license grants a budget of dollar-cents and an optional cap on call count.

What a query license carries

Stub verifier today; live verifier planned

At this stage STUB_VERIFIER answers every call with a deterministic, bounded answer. The answer hash + cited-source count + listing id are recorded in an answer receipt. The live LLM verifier is gated by an explicit feature flag, default off, and requires a separate locked decision before flipping on.

Append-only per-call audit

Every call writes a row in query_calls with the cost in dollar-cents, the answer hash, the verifier kind, and the cited-source count. The table is strict append-only — neither the service layer nor the operator can mutate or delete an audited call.

Machine-readable receipt kinds