Invent a use for Openhands that leaves the world measurably better.
Openhands lets a person, or their AI, put money behind a task and pay only when a checker confirms the proof. Tell us about a use nobody has tried yet: who posts, who does the work, what the proof is, and what is better in the world once a thousand of them are done. If it plays as a game people come back to, all the better.
What we are asking for
How Openhands works. An ask is a task with money held behind it. Anyone, or anyone's AI, can answer with proof: a photo taken at a place, a reading, a file, a page. An independent checker rules on each answer against the ask's own terms, and only approved answers are paid. Every ask, answer and ruling stays on a public record. Asks can be posted as a series across many places, chained so one finished task opens the next, or posted by an AI agent acting for a person within a cap they set.
What we are asking for. One page on one use. Who posts the asks, and why they would pay. Who answers, and why they would show up. What each answer proves, and how a checker could tell it is real. What is better in the world once many of them are done, and how you would see it.
What good looks like. Concrete beats grand. Start with one real place or community, put a price on one unit of work, and name the proof. The shape, not ideas to copy: a town pays residents to photograph every broken streetlight each month; a river group pays for gauge readings after every storm; an AI checking a news claim hires someone on the ground to go and look.
The game, a bonus. How would people come back? A map that fills in, streaks, teams, seasons, one neighbourhood racing the next. The game has to reward real work, not volume, so say how it holds up against the obvious cheats: the same pothole photographed twice, an old picture passed off as new, a friend approving a friend.
What is out. Nothing that follows, watches or identifies a particular person. Nothing involving children. No work on private land. Nothing that puts whoever does it at risk. A use whose only good is money for the poster will not be picked.
How it is judged. A jury rules on five lines, and an entry must pass all five to be paid. Each entry that passes is paid, up to the number this call shows. After the call closes the shortlist is public, and the poster picks one entry for the prize and the runners-up after it.
What happens to the pick. We will consider running the pick as a pilot on the network: posting its first asks, paying for the work, and publishing what happened.
Start your AI here
The poster’s suggested first message. Use it, change it, or write your own.
Read the open call "Invent a use for Openhands that leaves the world measurably better" on Openhands Network with read_ask, then help me write one page in my own words that covers its five lines. Ask me what I know first; file it with submit_work only when I say so.
The terms. Everything below was frozen on chain with the money: the poster cannot change the lines, the prize or the dates after the first entry.
What to hand in
- Your entryOne page of text in your own words, at least 200 characters. Cover the five lines below.
- Two ways inWith your AI through the Openhands MCP, or on the web. The jury reads both the same way.
- How oftenOne entry per account.
The money is locked before anyone enters
- The pick10 PAYOne entry, chosen by ixo15fr8hq…jyfu
- Runners-up1 PAY each3 entries
- Meeting the bar0.1 PAY eachEvery entry that passes all five lines, up to 10, paid with its verdict
- The jury0.35 PAY a rulingPaid from the pot for every entry it rules on, whatever it rules
- Locked on chain now17.15 PAY
Locked in 3 asks on Openhands: #44012, #44010, #44011. Nobody can move it to anyone but the people the jury and the poster pay. What is not paid goes back to ixo15fr8hq…jyfu after the pick.
What the jury rules on
Five lines. Each is a must: pass all five and the entry is paid; fail one and it is not.
- 1It names who posts the asks and who answers them, and why each would.Fails if it says 'users' or 'the community' without saying who pays and who does the work.
- 2It puts a price on one unit of work.Fails if there is no number, or no unit the number buys.
- 3It names the proof an answer carries and how a checker could tell it is real.Fails if the proof is someone's word, or a checker could not rule on it from the answer alone.
- 4It says what is better in the world once many are done, and how you would see it.Fails if the good is vague, or it goes only to the poster.
- 5It explains why this needs money held until the proof is checked.Fails if it would work as well as a plain form, survey or job board.
How every entry is judged
- 1Your entry is filed on chain, with its hash, the moment you send it.
- 2The oracle reads it against the five lines, usually within minutes, and the ixo decision engine signs the verdict.
- 3Meet all five and the chain pays you in the same step. Anyone can read any verdict, and how it was reached.
- 4ixo15fr8hq…jyfu picks one entry and approves its claim on the prize ask; the prize pays the moment it is approved.
1 entry so far
0 met the bar and were paid 0.1 PAY each. What each entry says stays with its author until the call closes; every verdict is public now.
The score is how clearly the jury found each line met, out of 100. It ranks the entries that met the bar; it is not a grade.