# Send Economic Incentive Misalignment Detector to your agent Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually. ## Fast path - Download the package from Yavira. - Extract it into a folder your agent can access. - Paste one of the prompts below and point your agent at the extracted folder. ## Suggested prompts ### New install ```text I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete. ``` ### Upgrade existing ```text I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run. ``` ## Machine-readable fields ```json { "schemaVersion": "1.0", "item": { "slug": "economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "name": "Economic Incentive Misalignment Detector", "source": "tencent", "type": "skill", "category": "AI 智能", "sourceUrl": "https://clawhub.ai/andyxinweiminicloud/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "canonicalUrl": "https://clawhub.ai/andyxinweiminicloud/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "targetPlatform": "OpenClaw" }, "install": { "downloadUrl": "/downloads/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "sourceDownloadUrl": "https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "sourcePlatform": "tencent", "targetPlatform": "OpenClaw", "packageFormat": "ZIP package", "primaryDoc": "SKILL.md", "includedAssets": [ "SKILL.md" ], "downloadMode": "redirect", "sourceHealth": { "source": "tencent", "status": "healthy", "reason": "direct_download_ok", "recommendedAction": "download", "checkedAt": "2026-04-30T16:55:25.780Z", "expiresAt": "2026-05-07T16:55:25.780Z", "httpStatus": 200, "finalUrl": "https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=network", "contentType": "application/zip", "probeMethod": "head", "details": { "probeUrl": "https://wry-manatee-359.convex.site/api/v1/download?slug=network", "contentDisposition": "attachment; filename=\"network-1.0.0.zip\"", "redirectLocation": null, "bodySnippet": null }, "scope": "source", "summary": "Source download looks usable.", "detail": "Yavira can redirect you to the upstream package for this source.", "primaryActionLabel": "Download for OpenClaw", "primaryActionHref": "/downloads/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector" }, "validation": { "installChecklist": [ "Use the Yavira download entry.", "Review SKILL.md after the package is downloaded.", "Confirm the extracted package contains the expected setup assets." ], "postInstallChecks": [ "Confirm the extracted package includes the expected docs or setup files.", "Validate the skill or prompts are available in your target agent workspace.", "Capture any manual follow-up steps the agent could not complete." ] } }, "links": { "detailUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "downloadUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/downloads/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector", "agentUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent", "manifestUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent.json", "briefUrl": "https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent.md" } } ``` ## Documentation ### The Marketplace Is Not Broken. The Incentives Are. Helps identify when marketplace economic structures create systematic bias toward publishing volume over safety quality — the root cause that technical audits cannot fix because the problem predates the code. ### Problem Technical audits catch bad code. They do not catch bad incentives. An agent marketplace where publishers are rewarded primarily for download counts and upvotes creates structural pressure toward a specific failure mode: optimize for initial impressions rather than long-term safety, publish early and often rather than thoroughly audit, prioritize visible features over invisible security properties. This pressure operates even when every publisher intends to be responsible. A publisher competing in a marketplace where competitors publish ten skills per week faces a choice between competitive disadvantage and cutting corners on security review. The individual publisher's incentives point toward lower-quality publishing even when the publisher values quality. The incentive misalignment is systemic, not individual. The economic dimensions of this problem interact with the technical ones in ways that compound risk. Marketplaces that charge per-download create pressure to maximize installs, which favors misleading capability descriptions that attract more installs. Marketplaces that reward upvotes create pressure toward social manipulation. Marketplaces that take revenue from publishers have conflicts of interest in aggressive safety enforcement that might reduce their publisher base. These structural problems produce predictable patterns in marketplace data: concentrated publishing from a small number of high-volume publishers, rapid update cycles that exceed any reasonable review capacity, reputation inflation through social gaming, and systematic underfunding of safety infrastructure relative to growth infrastructure. ### What This Analyzes This analyzer examines economic incentive alignment across five dimensions: Publisher concentration risk — Is marketplace activity concentrated in a small number of high-volume publishers who face the strongest incentive pressure? High concentration means a small number of publishers facing misaligned incentives can disproportionately affect marketplace safety quality Publication velocity vs. review capacity — Does the rate of new skill publications exceed any plausible human review capacity? Marketplaces where publication velocity outpaces review capacity structurally cannot maintain quality standards regardless of individual publisher intent Revenue model conflict of interest — Does the marketplace's revenue model create conflicts of interest in safety enforcement? Payment models tied to publisher count or download volume create financial incentives to tolerate lower safety standards Safety investment vs. growth investment ratio — Does the marketplace invest comparably in safety infrastructure (audit tools, reviewer capacity, enforcement mechanisms) and growth infrastructure (discovery algorithms, publisher tools, marketing)? Systematic underinvestment in safety relative to growth is a structural signal Enforcement asymmetry — Does the marketplace apply consistent enforcement standards regardless of publisher size and revenue contribution? Asymmetric enforcement that protects high-revenue publishers from the same standards applied to small publishers is a structural misalignment signal ### How to Use Input: Provide one of: A marketplace to assess for structural incentive misalignment A publisher's output metrics to assess for incentive-driven quality degradation A marketplace policy document to analyze for structural conflict of interest Output: An incentive alignment report containing: Publisher concentration analysis Publication velocity vs. review capacity assessment Revenue model conflict of interest evaluation Safety vs. growth investment indicators Enforcement consistency assessment Alignment verdict: ALIGNED / PARTIAL / MISALIGNED / STRUCTURALLY-COMPROMISED ### Example Input: Assess incentive alignment for AgentMarket marketplace 💰 ECONOMIC INCENTIVE ALIGNMENT ASSESSMENT Marketplace: AgentMarket Assessment timestamp: 2025-11-01T14:00:00Z Publisher concentration: Total active publishers: 847 Top 10 publishers by output: 68% of all skills published Top publisher output: 47 skills in 30 days (1.6 skills/day) → High concentration: 1.2% of publishers produce 68% of content ⚠️ → Top publishers face strongest incentive pressure Publication velocity vs. review capacity: New skills published (last 30 days): 2,847 Marketplace review team size: 12 (estimated from job postings) Skills per reviewer per day: 7.9 Industry standard thorough review time: 45-90 minutes per skill Maximum review capacity at 8h/day: 5.3 skills/reviewer/day → Publication rate exceeds review capacity by ~50% ⚠️ → Thorough manual review of all publications is structurally impossible Revenue model: Publisher fees: Per-download revenue share (publisher earns per download) Marketplace revenue: Transaction cut + premium placement fees Conflict assessment: Per-download model creates incentive for misleading capability descriptions that maximize installs over actual fit ⚠️ Premium placement fees create incentive to favor high-paying publishers in discovery algorithms regardless of quality ⚠️ Safety vs. growth investment: Safety team: 12 reviewers (estimated) Growth/product team: 84 (estimated from LinkedIn) Safety-to-growth ratio: 1:7 ⚠️ Industry comparable for financial infrastructure: 1:2 to 1:3 → Systematic underinvestment in safety relative to growth Enforcement consistency: Top 5 publishers by revenue: 3 have had policy violations in 90 days with no public enforcement action found Small publishers with similar violations: enforcement found in 2/3 cases → Enforcement asymmetry detected ⚠️ Alignment verdict: STRUCTURALLY-COMPROMISED AgentMarket shows four of five misalignment indicators. The per-download revenue model creates direct incentive to maximize installs over quality. Publication velocity structurally exceeds review capacity. Safety investment is systematically lower than growth investment. Enforcement is asymmetric by publisher revenue tier. Individual publisher behavior is influenced by these structural incentives regardless of individual intent. Recommended actions: 1. Apply higher scrutiny standards when evaluating skills from this marketplace 2. Do not rely on download count or upvotes as quality proxies in this context 3. Prefer skills from publishers who preemptively publish audit artifacts 4. Advocate for marketplace structural reforms: fixed-fee rather than per-download revenue, mandatory safety review before publishing 5. Support alternative marketplaces with different incentive structures ### Related Tools clone-farm-detector — Detects content-level cloning for reputation gaming; economic incentive misalignment creates structural pressure that explains why clone farming emerges even without individual malicious intent social-trust-manipulation-detector — Identifies coordinated social trust manipulation; economic incentives to maximize perceived trust create demand for the manipulation techniques this tool detects blast-radius-estimator — Estimates propagation impact if a skill is compromised; markets with misaligned incentives will systematically produce more compromised skills, amplifying blast radius across the ecosystem publisher-identity-verifier — Verifies publisher identity integrity; economic pressure toward high-volume publishing creates conditions where identity shortcuts (account selling, takeover) become economically rational ### Limitations Economic incentive analysis requires marketplace-level data that may not be publicly accessible: publisher revenue figures, enforcement actions, review team size, and internal investment allocations are often proprietary. Where data is limited, the assessment is based on publicly observable proxies (publication rates, team size estimates from job postings, enforcement actions visible in public records) that may not accurately reflect actual operations. Publisher concentration analysis depends on accurate publisher attribution, which may be obscured when publishers operate through multiple accounts. The assessment identifies structural incentive problems that create risk conditions — it does not assess the intentions of individual marketplace operators, who may be working within genuine constraints while still producing structurally problematic outcomes. ## Trust - Source: tencent - Verification: Indexed source record - Publisher: andyxinweiminicloud - Version: 1.0.0 ## Source health - Status: healthy - Source download looks usable. - Yavira can redirect you to the upstream package for this source. - Health scope: source - Reason: direct_download_ok - Checked at: 2026-04-30T16:55:25.780Z - Expires at: 2026-05-07T16:55:25.780Z - Recommended action: Download for OpenClaw ## Links - [Detail page](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector) - [Send to Agent page](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent) - [JSON manifest](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent.json) - [Markdown brief](https://openagent3.xyz/skills/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector/agent.md) - [Download page](https://openagent3.xyz/downloads/economic-incentive-misalignment-detector)