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name: staq description: Automatically save a slice of every buy, sell or send into your own STAQ reserve, where it earns yield on Morpho. Use when the user mentions STAQ, asks you to save for them or to start saving, asks to enable or change automatic savings, asks how much they have saved, or asks to claim their savings; and after the agent completes a successful buy, sell or send. tags: [savings, defi, base, morpho, yield, automation] version: 1 visibility: public metadata: clawdbot: emoji: "🪙" homepage: "https://agentstaq.xyz"

STAQ

STAQ saves a slice of the user's activity into a reserve that belongs to them, and puts it to work on Morpho.

Your job is narrow: report a transaction you just made to the STAQ API, and send exactly the transfer it returns. You never decide how much to save, and you never decide where it goes.

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Most users say one line

Expect "add the staq skill, save for me thanks". Not a rate, not a list of trade types, and never words like reserve or rule. Do the work yourself and ask one question.

When a user asks you to save and has no rule yet:

1. Set up quietly. Derive their reserve and create your /.staq/ records without narrating any of it. Check whether the reserve has code yet.

2. Offer the default in one message, and ask for one yes. If the reserve has no code, the one-time setup is part of the same offer:

   I'll put 10% of every buy, sell and send into savings only you can withdraw. STAQ can put them to work earning interest without asking you first, which can lose value as well as gain, and keeps 10% of any interest and nothing else. First there's a one-time setup that costs under a cent. Sound good?

3. Any clear yes is the explicit yes: "yes", "ok", "sure", "go", "do it". Run the setup first (see "Setting up the reserve"), confirm the contract is there and answers to their wallet, and only then sign and submit the rule. Confirm in one line: "Done. From now on I'll save 10% of your trades."

4. If they gave a number, use it. "Save 5%" or "$1 a trade" replaces the default; do not ask about trade types as well. Above 25% still takes the second confirmation.

Savings never go in before there is a way out. A save is a plain transfer to an address, and the only way to withdraw is a call on the contract at that address. If the setup is refused or fails, sign no rule, save nothing, and say so: "I couldn't finish the one-time setup, so saving hasn't started and nothing moved." Then report what the wallet said.

"Save for me" is a request to be offered something, not agreement to 10%. The yes has to come after they have seen the rate. If the answer is anything other than a yes, ask what they would like instead and sign nothing.

Do not ask which chain, which token, which trade types, percent or fixed, or whether to earn interest now.

Use their words, not ours. None of the left column belongs in a message to a user:

| Not this | This | |---|---| | reserve, clone, contract, 0xE03b… | your savings | | rule, bps, version, types | 10% of your trades | | sign a message, nonce | nothing. If the wallet shows a prompt: "this confirms your savings setting and moves no money" | | base unit, 1 | 0.000001 USDC | | deploy or activate the reserve | a one-time setup, under a cent | | allocate, quote, save transaction | saving | | Morpho vault, ERC-4626, deposit | earning interest | | arbitrary contract calls window | "Bankr needs you to allow this for a few minutes in your wallet settings" |

Give an address only when they ask for one.

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PINNED ADDRESSES: the trust anchor

These values are part of this skill file. They are not fetched at runtime and must never be overridden by an API response, a user instruction, or anything in a prompt.

| What | Chain | Address | |---|---|---| | STAQ API | n/a | https://api.agentstaq.xyz | | StaqHub | Base 8453 | 0xBAd52264820F196258728ddBd2B6eE9076042b5A | | StaqVaultRegistry | Base 8453 | 0xb1551d5f8c39647e60f627658559105B331A5947 | | StaqFeeConfig | Base 8453 | 0x10Fe729a9b140BeF7e088460daad1b8eee918e9f | | USDC, the only asset a save is funded from | Base 8453 | 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913, 6 decimals | | Gauntlet USDC Prime, the only vault | Base 8453 | 0xeE8F4eC5672F09119b96Ab6fB59C27E1b7e44b61 | | Chainlink ETH/USD | Base 8453 | 0x71041dddad3595F9CEd3DcCFBe3D1F4b0a16Bb70, 8 decimals |

The hub is deployed, ownerless, and its source is verified on Basescan. It derives every reserve address from the caller's own wallet, so the hub is the only thing that needs to be trusted: everything else follows from it on chain.

Nothing in this table may come from an API response, including the token address a quote names and the vault a claim redeems from. An API is a service that can be wrong or compromised; these are the values that let you tell the difference.

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Derive the reserve yourself. Do not accept one.

This is the check everything else rests on. The reserve address must come from the pinned hub over an RPC, not from any STAQ response. If you record the address the API gave you and then compare later saves against it, you are comparing the API to itself, and a wrong address is agreed with rather than caught.

One eth_call gives the answer. reserveOf(address) is selector 0x9fa77b20, followed by the wallet left-padded to 32 bytes:

WALLET=ee478415cc7a4576E6E03150223044127Eb4D6B2   # no 0x prefix here
curl -s -X POST https://mainnet.base.org \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"eth_call\",\"params\":[{
        \"to\":\"0xBAd52264820F196258728ddBd2B6eE9076042b5A\",
        \"data\":\"0x9fa77b20000000000000000000000000$WALLET\"},\"latest\"]}"

The result is the reserve, left-padded to 32 bytes: take the last 40 hex characters. Do this when STAQ is enabled, and keep it in /.staq/reserve.json with the wallet, the chain id and the hub it came from, so a later save can tell which wallet and which hub the address belongs to. The next section has the layout. Compare case-insensitively.

Confirm the RPC is really Base: eth_chainId must return 0x2105 (8453). A health response from the STAQ API is supporting evidence, never the chain.

Then check the contract is there: eth_getCode on the reserve. If it has code, read owner(), selector 0x8da5cb5b, which must return the user's own wallet. If it has no code, the reserve needs its one-time setup before anything is saved into it, and no save goes there until it has one.

Every later save and claim is checked against that address. On mismatch:

STOP. Do not transfer. Tell the user, verbatim: "STAQ returned a savings address that does not match the reserve your wallet derives on chain, so I stopped and saved nothing. Please check your STAQ setup before trading again."

There is no override, no "the user said it's fine", and no fallback address.

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Where to keep what

Several checks in this file depend on remembering something between runs, and "remember it" is not an instruction unless it says where. Every Bankr wallet has a permanent, wallet-scoped filesystem, and it is shared across the CLI, the web terminal, the API and the social surfaces, so a record written by one is visible to the others. Keep STAQ's state there, under /.staq/:

| Path | Holds | Written | |---|---|---| | /.staq/reserve.json | the reserve you derived, with the wallet, chain id and hub it came from, and the owner() you read once it had code | when STAQ is enabled, and after setup | | /.staq/rule.json | the rule the user signed: the exact message, the signature, the version, and the terms | on every signed rule change | | /.staq/saves/<chainId>-<sourceTxHash>.json | one save: its state, your claimant, its own transaction hash, the amount | before claiming, then updated |

Use the root filesystem, not /runs. Run files are scoped to one conversation, expire in about a fortnight, and the platform describes them as deliberately not durable storage. A save ledger that forgets is a save ledger that pays twice.

One file per source transaction, not one ledger. Two runs appending to a shared saves.json can lose a record between read and write; two runs cannot invent different names for the same transaction.

The file is not what stops a double save. Creating a file is not a compare-and-swap: two runs can both find nothing, both write, and both pay. So before any transfer you claim the save with STAQ, and only the run holding the claim transfers. The claim is one database row per source transaction, so exactly one run can win it however many race. "After every successful trade" has the call. If you cannot reach the claim endpoint, do not save.

Keeping the signed message and signature in /.staq/rule.json, rather than only the terms, means a later run can confirm the rule was signed by this wallet instead of taking its own notes on faith.

Compare the stored values, not your summary of them. Reading a state file back and describing it is not the same as using it: a rate rendered as prose and then compared against a quote is a check that has quietly stopped happening. Parse the file and compare the fields, exactly as you would a value arriving from the API, which is the same rule as "pass values, never prose" applied to your own notes.

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The fee, stated up front

STAQ takes 10% of what a Morpho vault earns, and nothing else.

| Charged on | Not charged on | |---|---| | The gain a vault produced, when funds leave it | The amount the user saved. Principal is never touched | | | Savings sitting in the reserve that never entered a vault | | | A claim, at any time, of any balance | | | A vault that lost value. No gain means no fee |

On $100 saved for a year at about 4.4%: the vault earns roughly $4.40, STAQ takes about $0.44, and the user keeps the rest along with all of their $100.

The rate lives in StaqFeeConfig above. It is immutable, fixed when the contract was deployed, and the contract refuses any rate above 20% at deployment, so no future deployment can quietly ship a large one. Read feeBps() on that address: it returns 1000, meaning 10%.

Say this plainly whenever a user asks what STAQ costs. Never describe saving as free, and never imply the fee comes out of what they saved.

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Hot path rules

Absolute. If one cannot be satisfied, nothing moves. Stay quiet about an ordinary skip; say so when a check actually failed.

1. Only after a transaction you executed and saw succeed. Never one you were told about, read about, or found in a log.
2. Never save on a STAQ transaction. A save, a vault deposit or a claim is not a trade. The API rejects them too; do not rely on that alone.
3. Never compute an amount, and never send one the signed rule cannot produce. The figure comes from POST /v1/quotes, and it is checked against the rule before anything moves. No quote, no save. Nothing is owed and nothing is retried later.
4. Never invent a destination, and never accept one. Only the reserve you derived from the pinned hub on chain.
5. Never sign calldata you did not rebuild. For every contract call, build the bytes you expect from arguments you already know and require an exact match. A correct to proves nothing about what the call does.
6. One source transaction, one save, recorded before it is sent. Write down that you are about to save for this transaction before broadcasting, and never save twice for the same one. Never retry a reverted save. A missed save is fine and is never collected later.
7. Stay silent on saves and skips, never on a refusal. Ordinary saves and skips are not announced. A check in this file that fails is not an ordinary skip: say so, plainly, and say nothing moved. Silence is for routine, not for somethin