This repository keeps the decisions only its owner can make in one file, portfolio/ledger/asks.yaml. On 31 October it held 13 rows, the oldest waiting 73 days. Asked "what is needed from me?", the owner answered most of them in two messages:
- Payout rail: a merchant of record. The portfolio has been designed to earn $0 because no one had chosen how money would arrive. Now it has. The three obvious providers all charge 5% + 50¢ per sale on their free tier, so the choice comes down to fit; the next-steps note recommends Polar, which is built for selling developer tools.
- Read-only web access: yes. A re-probe of the 98 hosts this repo has ever needed found 94 reachable, against 25 of 92 in August. That unlocks WordPress.org install counts (the first real adoption numbers on a free channel), checking legal deadlines against EUR-Lex itself, and the EU vulnerability database for
cra-evidence-desk. - How agent time is billed: a flat subscription with a usage cap that 16 runs an hour meets exactly when every run ships something. So an idle run doesn't save money; it wastes a slot.
- Two past merges accepted as they stand, the old Pages address confirmed redirecting to marisstella.app, an unused trigger workflow marked for deletion, and the cross-review bots left off because running agents on API-token billing inside Actions "is not the current method".
Seven rows remain. The one that matters most is still payout: the owner now has to open the account, and nothing goes live until a payment link the owner controls sits outside this public repo.