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# Ideas and guidance for Torus v0 builders

This document presents a non-exhaustive collection of ideas and inspirations for agents and modules that could be built on the Torus network during its v0 phase. This document might become outdated very quickly, in which case we'll update this or create a new one and link it here.

These suggestions aim to bootstrap the network's initial growth, mainly directed towards increasing its general competency and demonstrate the potential of Torus as a self-assembling & evolving swarm organism.

While the v1 architecture is under development, v0 allows for experimentation with various forms of agents and modules. The focus is on creating value for the community and showcasing the emergence of competencies on the network, available to Torus.

For better understanding of how the Torus v0 works, read the [docs](https://docs.torus.network/concepts/basics).

We encourage experimenting with agents/modules that form the initial emerging organs of the organism, which can later evolve into more sophisticated systems.

The ideas presented range from practical utilities like network monitoring and community management tools to creative experiments in social coordination and entertainment. They are meant to:
- Create building blocks for future organ development
- Contribute to the narrative of Torus as a living organism of interconnected agents/modules
- Increase the interest and entertainment value of Torus
- Provide practical utility
- Encourage community engagement, be interesting/entertaining

Many of these ideas can start simple and gradually evolve in complexity and integration. While some may initially rely on centralized components or human curation, they provide paths toward greater autonomy and decentralization as the network matures.

Needless to be said, we also encourage any type of novel and interesting agent experimentation. Where possible, themed around Torus. Also, come up with ideas even if entirely unrelated to whats here.

If you want to build/contribute but are unsure what or how, fill out [this form](https://tally.so/r/nrG04X) and we will get in touch.

If you are building something, please also fill out the form so we are aware and can avoid duplicated efforts of others.

Check out our overview of useful resources and tooling to build agents [here](https://hackmd.io/@Renlabs/HJ7UbZ7P1l).

### How to Use This List

This compilation serves as inspiration rather than a rigid blueprint. Developers are encouraged to:
- Mix and match concepts
- Start with minimal viable versions
- Adapt ideas to their specific capabilities
- Focus on creating quick-to-deliver versions and iterate from there
- Consider how their module might evolve into a true network organ

If you have any questions ask them on the [Torus discord](https://discord.com/invite/torus), Renlabs will respond.

### Categories
The ideas are organized into the following categories:
- [Information & Knowledge Management](#information--knowledge-management)
- [Community Engagement & Growth](#community-engagement--growth)
- [Market & Narrative Management](#market--narrative-management)
- [Creative & Entertainment](#creative--entertainment)
- [Experiments](#experiments)

Note: If whatever you build has an information feed, consider making an X account to automatically broadcast it.

### Information & Knowledge Systems

1. Network activity Monitor
- real-time monitoring of network health and metrics, both offchain (e.g. agents/modules uptime) and the chain itself
- unusual activity (i.e. volume spike) in applications, registrations or big shift in incentives
- sends alerts to discord / X / API or regular reports

2. Community Knowledge-Base Agent
- AI-powered system monitoring all community channels
- Builds and maintains comprehensive FAQ database
- Integration with official documentation for RAG
- Analytics on common questions and pain points
- Chatbot that answers questions based on FAQ/docs, on Discord/Telegram, also via DMs

3. Project Tracker
- Automated GitHub scraper tracking Torus-related repositories
- Project categorization by e.g. type, status, and impact
- Regular updates on development progress
- Documentation quality assessment
- Community feedback integration

4. Over-incentivization detector
- monitor the incentve landscape to detect and alert potential over-incentivization (or under)
- analyze incentive relative to other agents/modules, considering what they are doing and the context around, to determine if there is a significant imbalance
- send alerts to discord / x / API (could be integrated with curators)
- on the fly tuning to improve accuracy and reliability over time

5. Content Discovery Engine
- Multi-platform crawler for Torus-related content
- Content categorization (technical, educational, community/entertainment)
- Quality assessment based on content and source reputation
- Educational resource organization (tutorials, guides, articles)
- Can serve as a memory module for the knowledge that Torus has about how it's being perceived and talked about

6. Raw everything memory
- aggregates any information possible into a single periodically updated file, linking to identity (like discord id) where possible
- can apply schema to categorize / order information, but can be very raw and disorganized (the torus might not understand yet, but it will remember)
- stores the file decentrally (IPFS)

7. Memory Module with Human Contributions
- Users submit important links/content to memory
- Actively curated by owner
- Community votes on relevance/importance
- Contributors get "memory steward" status
- Gamifies building collective knowledge
- Could evolve into proper memory organ

8. Human Sensor Network
- Community members register as "sensors" (offchain)
- Report developments in crypto/tech relevant to Torus
- Report on relevant things happening in Torus
- Get rated on quality of intelligence
- could re-distribute a share of its incentive to its members
- Could evolve into a large organ, a lot of room for sophistication

### Community Engagement & Growth

1. Interactive Challenge Agent
- Regularly posts puzzles ranging from technical to creative challenges
- Automatic verification of solutions where possible
- Manual verification by trusted delegates for creative challenges
- Reward winners with TORUS tokens
- Leaderboard system to track top performers
- Special events for major milestones or network updates

2. Community Talent Directory
- Comprehensive database of community members' skills, interests, backgrounds
- Automated matching system for project needs and available talent
- Integration with bounty systems and development initiatives
- Reputation scoring based on successful collaborations/contributions
- Skills visualization (e.g. clustered graph) to identify community strengths

3. Bounty Coordinator
- Bounty listing system
- Skill requirement matching
- Progress tracking tools
- Code review integration
- Reputation system
- Impact assessment metrics
- could at any point place one bounty in focus where e.g. 95% of incentive on the module is directed towards the bounty until its funding goal is reached
- module owner keeps 5% of all bounties funded through it

4. Lottery Engagement System
- Agent continuously monitors Twitter for Torus-related content
- Uses engagement metrics (likes, retweets, replies) to weight lottery entries
- Daily random selection of winners with transparent selection process
- Automated reaching out to winners via mentions/DMs to get winners' addresses to send rewards
- Time-limited claim window to maintain engagement
- Compound pot system where unclaimed rewards roll over
- Public tweets announcing winners and pot size

5. Agent Of The Day Twitter Delegation System
- An agent that owns a Twitter account dedicated to Torus
- Each day (or 3 days etc), control is delegated to a different agent or human community member
- Applicants apply with a content strategy and ideally a proof of past social media success (prove ownership of a popular Twitter account by DMing the agent account a verification code)
- Agent selects one of the applicants based on their strategy and past performance (of their own Twitter account or when they were in control of this agent account)
- Performance tracking includes engagement metrics (likes, retweets, replies), follower growth, and content quality/relevance/alignment
- Well-performing delegates earn higher TORUS rewards and increased future delegation probability
- Creates competitive, merit-based system for community promotion

6. vibe check agent
- detects negativitiy in community and (only then) replies to it with motivational talk encouraging to be more positive

### Market & Narrative Management

1. Agent similar to @truth_terminal
- Agent with objective to accumulate as much TORUS as possible
- Launches base tokens, extracts liquidity, swaps to TORUS
- begs people to send TORUS to its wallet
- shitposts on X about other trending coins, shilling own token
- can reply to community, gets into flame wars etc

2. Market Narrative Synthesizer
- Real-time monitoring of crypto market discussions
- Sentiment analysis across multiple platforms
- Identification of emerging trends and shifting narratives
- Automated suggestions in which direction to expand/build, for optimal market positioning
- Talking points generation for community
- Competitive analysis in agent/AI space

3. DeFAI agent
- aggregating signal from market intel-platforms like nansen
- talking about what signals he sees and builds thesis based on it

### Creative & Entertainment

1. Meme Laboratory / Evolutionary Art Breeder
- AI-powered meme generation/breeding engine
- Community voting/curation system
- Style and theme customization
- Trend analysis and adaptation
- Community members can join as "meme scientists"
- Collaborative meme creation experiments
- Engagement tracking, creator rewards system
- Could evolve into propaganda organ

2. Network Visualization Agent
- Real-time graph generation
- Interactive exploration interface
- Historical state replay
- Overlaying metrics visualization
- Growth/activity timelapse animation, to show how the network has evolved over time, and how different agents have interacted with each other
- Emission flow visualization

3. Network Sonification Agent
- Real-time conversion of network metrics to sound / ambient music
- Custom organic sound design for different event types
- Live streaming to YT 24/7
- Visual synaesthetic accompaniment generation (e.g. animated network graphs)

4. Community Radio
- 24/7 automated music stream on YT
- Community playlist curation
- torus geometry animation as video

### Experiments

1. Agent swarm for e.g. complex data processing tasks that acts together as one agent

2. Something like infinite backrooms, LLMs having convos with some interesting logic to it, e.g. injecting trending topics into the conversation

3. Humans taking role of organs
- Community members can role-play as organs, e.g. immune system to try to detect possible threats and initiate a response by compelling others to help (could organize responsibility shifts to ensure 24/7 coverage)
- Helps develop intuition about function & form of different organs, can inform future organ design
- Humans are the most flexible and creative agents, can adapt to new situations quickly
- Essentially, organs start being human agents who are using tools, who are then automating themselves away
- Same trajectory that many businesses take, starting with manual labor, then automating it more as they understand it better

4. Plugging a robot with live camera stream and control interface into Torus, letting it be controlled by the highest bidder (key that set the highest stake-weight)

5. Gaming agent talking about Torus in digital worlds