Intelligence for onchain work is not a lecture. It is traces, rubrics, and a place to act. Assay encodes that spectrum. Computer-use comes later.
A fluent paragraph about volume is not a trace. A trace is the steps: what the expert looked at, what they discarded, what they counted, and what they were willing to write down. We capture that on live Base cases — wash, inventory, launches, incidents, signing — and ship it as SFT.
An agent does not pass because the answer looks fluent. It passes a named expert rubric. Each criterion has a weight, a pass line, and a fail example. Rubrics are the reward surface. They are also how we refuse to grade vibes.
Training data without a place to act is a reading comprehension test. Assay environments give the agent a wallet it can inspect, an explorer, SQL over decoded Base schemas, and MCP tools. Default unit is USDC. Default canary network is Base.
Computer-use trajectories
LATERLater. Human demonstrations of explorer, console, and incident-response work. We will film how the expert actually clicks when the feed is stale. Not in the first pack.