Unpaid canary · not revenue

Is tenant streams currently in-scope?

If your agent is about to act on a named business, it usually guesses from a prompt, RAG scrape, or chat memory. This unpaid canary returns the operator's current non-PII status and updated_at for tenant streams from authorized staging data, so you can confirm or reject in-scope for one follow-on operational action.

Economic state: SIMULATED_FIXTURE. independent_revenue=false. paid=false. settlement=false. A GitHub reply is interest only. One unpaid call is not recurrence.

Fit / non-fit

• Fits: independently operated MCP or HTTPS agent; one real in-scope decision; staging data is enough; you will say whether the payload beat prompt/RAG/memory.
• Does not fit: Phoenix-controlled workers; production customer data; PII/wallets/secrets; unrestricted tools; payment tests; “show me everything.”

What you provide / receive

• You provide: identity, one decision task, independence confirmation. Later, a one-use grant_token in get_operational_context.
• You receive: allowlisted fields only — name, slug, category, status, content_categories, site, timestamps. No email, phone, wallet, secrets, or graph data.

Worked sample (not a live canary)

Sample status=active and updated_at=2026-08-16 would support “yes, currently in-scope for a follow-on write.” A public-site scrape cannot know the operator's current status. If those fields would not change your decision, this experiment is falsified for you — a clean no is useful.

Value contract

• Whose state: Phoenix Collective operator record for one bound member-lane tenant (default streams), read from the operator businesses table via getMemberOperationalContext.
• Provenance: Operator Supabase businesses row, select list OPERATIONAL_CONTEXT_SELECT_FIELDS. Not model memory, not a scrape of marketing copy, not brand_graph_slice.
• Freshness: business.updated_at from the operator row at producer invocation. Sample responses are labeled sample and are not live freshness.
• Privacy exclusions: email, phone, owner_email, wallet, secret, graph_data
• Why not a generic LLM: A generic LLM, RAG corpus, or system prompt cannot know the operator’s current authoritative status, content_categories, or updated_at for this tenant. If those fields add no decision value beyond a public website scrape, the experiment is falsified.
• Useful outcome: The agent changes or confirms the in-scope decision using operator status and updated_at, and reports that the payload was necessary for that decision.
• Falsifying outcome: Forbidden fields appear; slug/status disagree with the operator source of truth; or the agent reports the payload did not change the decision versus public non-PII information already available without this call.

Invoke after a grant

Qualification before grant. No wallet. No payment adapter. No x402 identity. Disable with UNPAID_INVITED_CANARY_ENABLED=false or STREAM_CAPABILITY_ENABLED=false.

Request example

{
  "grant_token": "<hmac-signed unpaid grant after qualification>",
  "business_slug": "streams",
  "invitee_identity": "<independent operator identity>",
  "source": "owned_capability_page"
}

Sample response (not canary execution)

{
  "sample": true,
  "not_canary_execution": true,
  "tool": "unpaid_invited_canary",
  "stream_key": "operational_context",
  "member_lane": "streams",
  "business": {
    "id": "sample-non-sensitive",
    "name": "Streams (sample)",
    "slug": "streams",
    "category": "platform",
    "status": "active",
    "content_categories": [
      "operational"
    ],
    "logo_url": null,
    "website": "https://phoenix-collective.app",
    "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "paid": false,
  "settlement": false,
  "revenue": false,
  "independent_revenue_claimed": false
}

Implementation status

{
  "unpaid_canary": "implemented_owner_controlled",
  "paid_settlement": false,
  "wallet_required": false,
  "x402_required": false,
  "stripe_adapter_required": false,
  "content_scope": "not_activated",
  "brand_graph_slice": "not_activated",
  "mcp_jsonrpc": "implemented_unpaid_only",
  "official_mcp_registry": "listed_active",
  "independent_revenue": false,
  "fulfillment_store": "ephemeral_instance_local",
  "durable_distributed_replay": false
}