Prompt for your coding agent
Draft your first agent offer
Your coding agent reads your product's code and docs and drafts one offer, its price, delivery, and terms, ready to paste into Colter's selling brief. It changes nothing.
Paste it into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any agent that can read files and run commands.
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# Draft your first agent offer for Colter
**Colter Commerce** turns a product into an offer agents can find, read, pay for, and receive, while my storefront, API, or team keeps delivering it. Selling is in preview: a person at Colter reviews each pilot before anything is published, connected, or charged.
This prompt has you read my product's code and docs, propose ONE first offer, and write it to `colter-offer.md` for me to paste into Colter's selling brief. You will not publish, connect, or charge anything.
**About selling to agents:** https://colter.ai/sell
**How an agent buys on Colter today:** https://colter.ai/docs/agents (the work check, Colter's own first offer)
**Index for agents:** https://colter.ai/llms.txt
## Ground rules
- Read only. Don't change code, billing, pricing, or infrastructure. Don't call production APIs or create accounts.
- Never copy secrets, API keys, customer data, or internal hostnames into the draft. Colter needs the boundary, not credentials.
- Don't invent a price, a promise, or a remedy. Propose from what the code and docs show, mark each guess **(proposed)**, and ask me to confirm it.
- One offer. More can follow once the first is clear.
## Steps
Work through these IN ORDER. Stop at the first thing the repository can't answer, ask me, then resume.
1. **Find what is sold today.** Look for pricing pages, plans, billing or metering code (Stripe products, usage records, API key tiers), public API routes, and docs. Summarize it for me in 3 to 5 bullets.
2. **Pick the unit an agent pays for.** One of: a record or resource (data, content, a report, an access period); a call or result (an API request, a tool operation); a conversation (a paid answer or consultation); a completed job (a deliverable with a deadline); a product or booking. Prefer something already sold that is delivered without a person. Tell me your pick and one alternative.
3. **State the terms an agent needs to decide without a person:** the price and the unit it buys; what the buyer receives, and when; permitted use, freshness, or the access period; and the remedy when delivery falls short (a credit, a refund, or a redelivery).
4. **Map delivery.** Which system fulfils the offer (the route, job, or team), what starts an order, where delivery is recorded today, and whether it could deliver automatically once payment is confirmed or needs a person to release it.
5. **Note how customers pay today.** Colter takes card or stablecoin (USDC over x402), records each payment against the offer and its delivery, and never holds the seller's funds. An API gateway that already meters requests can stay.
6. **Write `colter-offer.md`** with the template below and show it to me. Don't commit it unless I ask.
## Template
The headings match the questions in Colter's selling brief.
```markdown
# Colter offer: <name>
## The offer
- What will agents buy from you?
- How do customers buy this today?
- What starts an order?
- What does the buyer receive, and when?
- How often do you expect purchases, and about how many?
## Fulfillment & terms
- Which system supplies the offer?
- What may Colter do with your offer? (read the offer / draft fulfillment / deliver after approval / deliver on payment)
- What kind of information does delivery involve?
- Where must a person approve? (before each delivery / before publishing the offer / review afterward / no human approval)
- Who approves offers and deliveries?
- Price and payment terms:
- Remedy when delivery falls short:
## Success & review
- What result would make the selling pilot successful?
- Who owns this offer?
- Useful examples, documents, or links (public only):
## Later offers
- (other units worth selling after this one)
```
## Common stuck points
| Symptom | Fix |
|---|---|
| No price anywhere in the repository | Ask me. Don't infer one from competitors. |
| Several products | Pick the one with the clearest unit and automatic delivery. List the rest under "Later offers". |
| Delivery needs a person | That's fine. Mark it "deliver after approval". A report or answer can arrive later against a stated deadline. |
| Delivery involves personal or regulated data | Say so under "What kind of information". Colter scopes it with me before connecting anything. |
| I want agents to negotiate terms or earn a reward | That's Trade. Draft the offer first, then use https://colter.ai/prompts/trade.md. |
## Done
Tell me to open https://colter.ai/sign-up?flow=sell, verify my work email, and paste each section into the matching question. A person at Colter reviews the brief, usually within two business days, and proposes a scoped pilot. No account, connection, listing, or charge exists until I accept.
