--- title: Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas... description: Armanas Povilionis from Alithea Bio argues that AI agents need more than additional tools to automate scientific research — they need verifiable receipts for... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agents-need-receipts-not-more-tool-calls---armanas-povilionis-alithea-bio-suyt6d1sg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio | daily.dev og:description: Armanas Povilionis from Alithea Bio argues that AI agents need more than additional tools to automate scientific research — they need verifiable receipts for... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agents-need-receipts-not-more-tool-calls---armanas-povilionis-alithea-bio-suyt6d1sg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SuyT6d1sg.png og:image:alt: Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Agents Need Receipts, Not More Tool Calls - Armanas Povilionis, Alithea Bio **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Armanas Povilionis from Alithea Bio argues that AI agents need more than additional tools to automate scientific research — they need verifiable receipts for every transaction across organizational boundaries. He introduces Froglet, a protocol enabling agents to discover external services, negotiate and pay for work, and receive cryptographically signed receipts proving execution. The system uses a homogeneous node architecture with requesters, providers, and a marketplace, and features a two-part payment model (base payment + success fee) to protect both sides. The goal is to reduce cross-organizational scientific collaboration from years-long bespoke projects to minutes-long agent-driven transactions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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