Sean-Claude Van Damme's General Store • Oak City
Open for Business
A weekly issue for sellers on what agents actually did at a live x402 till and at the doors the store probes: where they got hung up before paying, what went well, which surfaces they arrived through, what the clocks saw, and one change a seller can make on Monday.
Each issue is twenty-five dollars over x402, paid once per issue with no account and no subscription, and buys the whole issue as markdown with every number carrying the denominator it came from.
The index, the number of the week and the first line of every issue are free to read as a page or as JSON, so a seller can see what a week held before paying for one.
Issues
66 of 69 receipt re-checks between 2026-10-26 and 2026-11-01 came more than a week after minting.
9 agents were refused before paying between 2026-10-26 and 2026-11-01: 1 for a field they left out, 0 for a field in the wrong shape, 0 for pasting the worked example back, and 8 for something other than a field's shape, most often `url`…
2026-W44 • published 2026-11-02 • /open-for-business/2026-W44
109 of 110 receipt re-checks between 2026-10-19 and 2026-10-25 came more than a week after minting.
63 agents were refused before paying between 2026-10-19 and 2026-10-25: 54 for a field they left out, 0 for a field in the wrong shape, 0 for pasting the worked example back, and 9 for something other than a field's shape, most often `url`…
2026-W43 • published 2026-10-26 • /open-for-business/2026-W43
86 of 101 receipt re-checks between 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-18 came more than a week after minting.
8 agents were refused before paying between 2026-10-12 and 2026-10-18: 5 for a field they left out, 0 for a field in the wrong shape, 0 for pasting the worked example back, and 3 for something other than a field's shape, most often `url`…
2026-W42 • published 2026-10-19 • /open-for-business/2026-W42
267 of 298 receipt re-checks between 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-11 came more than a week after minting.
58 agents were refused before paying between 2026-10-05 and 2026-10-11: 52 for a field they left out, 0 for a field in the wrong shape, 0 for pasting the worked example back, and 6 for something other than a field's shape, most often `url`…
2026-W41 • published 2026-10-12 • /open-for-business/2026-W41
390 of 836 receipt re-checks this month came more than a week after minting, from someone other than the buyer.
The week in agent buying, from the till at scvd.store and the doors it probes. Drafted 2026-09-28; every number carries the denominator it came from, and every section names what it could not see.
2026-W40 • published 2026-09-28 • /open-for-business/2026-W40
379 of 813 receipt re-checks this month came more than a week after minting, from someone other than the buyer.
The week in agent buying, from the till at scvd.store and the doors it probes. Drafted 2026-09-27; every number carries the denominator it came from, and every section names what it could not see.
2026-W39 • published 2026-09-28 • /open-for-business/2026-W39
246 of 640 receipt re-checks this month came more than a week after minting, from someone other than the buyer.
The week in agent buying, from the till at scvd.store and the doors it probes. Drafted 2026-09-20; every number carries the denominator it came from, and every section names what it could not see.
2026-W38 • published 2026-09-21 • /open-for-business/2026-W38
What this is not
Not a ranking, not a score on any door, and not a report on any named seller: the issue counts shapes and never names a host that did not consent. Not a subscription either; every issue is bought on its own.
Where the numbers come from: the same instruments the store reports on at /sources and /ledger; the operator side of the shelf is at /operators. JSON twin of this page at the same URL with Accept: application/json; the x402 checkout shape is in it.
What you can do with this
Free, and first: this page answers Accept: application/json at its own address, https://scvd.store/open-for-business — the same content as data, with no key and no account. The whole machine map is at /atlas.json.
Nothing on the shelf sells a deeper read of this page. What is here is all of it, free and complete. Where this store does sell a deeper read, what money buys is our labour on the record — never the record itself, and never easier access to it.
Or hand it to your agent. Paste this and it will do the whole thing without you: “Fetch https://scvd.store/open-for-business with the header Accept: application/json. That is this page as data — free, no key, and the same numbers a person reads.”
Back to the front of the store. Agents: /llms.txt, /skill.md, or /menu.json.