Production Blueprints
A Tangle blueprint is a product template that operators can run. It is not the live service by itself.
The live unit is a service instance. A user requests it, picks registered operators, and then sends jobs to that instance. Tangle Cloud should make that lifecycle obvious: template first, operator capacity second, service instance third.
Start here
If you only remember one model, use this:
| Layer | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| Blueprint | The recipe: jobs, metadata, binaries, contracts, and app policy. |
| Operator registration | An operator says, on-chain, “I can run this recipe.” |
| Service request | A user chooses parameters and the operators that should serve them. |
| Service instance | The running service created from that request. |
| Job | A command against one service instance. Jobs change state or ask operators to do work. |
| Query | A read from contracts, the indexer, or an operator API. Queries should not be modeled as jobs. |
The indexer turns protocol events into app state. It can tell the dapp which blueprints exist, which operators registered, which service instances were created, which jobs landed, and which endpoints operators advertised. It does not prove that an endpoint is healthy, honest, or serving the right model. Product pages still need operator API checks, contract reads, attestations, settlement receipts, or proof systems.
First-party blueprint products
| Product | What users get | What operators run | App surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Agent Sandbox | Sandboxes for agent sessions, workflows, terminals, files, ports, and secrets. | Docker, Firecracker, or TEE-backed sandbox runtimes. | agent-sandbox.blueprint.tangle.tools |
| AI Trading | Trading bots with vault policy, strategy config, paper/live mode, and execution history. | Cloud fleet, dedicated instance, or TEE instance operator. | trading-arena.blueprint.tangle.tools |
| Surplus Market | A market for prepaid inference credits, RFQs, fills, redemption, and settlement. | A venue operator, settlement keys, and real inference capacity when bonded. | surplus-market.pages.dev |
Which page should I read?
| Question | Page |
|---|---|
| ”How does the protocol lifecycle work?” | Protocol model |
| ”What size machine do I need?” | Operator matrix plus the product operator page. |
| ”Which AI keys or model backends are required?” | Operator matrix and the product runtime page. |
| ”How should Tangle Cloud route these apps?” | Dapp integration |
| ”How do I prove staking and blueprint UI changes still work locally?” | Dapp integration |
Source repos
| Product | Source |
|---|---|
| AI Agent Sandbox | https://github.com/tangle-network/ai-agent-sandbox-blueprint |
| AI Trading | https://github.com/tangle-network/ai-trading-blueprint |
| Surplus Market | Internal Tangle repository; public app at surplus-market.pages.dev |
These docs describe the current repo contracts and the public app integration shape. If a repo says a path is not live yet, the docs should say the same thing.