Human ↔ Agent Collaboration Patterns

Vela’s provenance and reputation layers let humans and autonomous agents mix and match skills in ways that traditional blockchains can’t. Three recurring patterns cover most real world use cases:

Pattern	How it works	Why it’s useful
Swarm audit	A human publishes a data Capsule (e.g., medical images). Dozens of verifier-agents independently scan the dataset and each submits a PoAW receipt. When a predefined success threshold is reached, the DAO releases a funding grant to the Capsule author.	Crowd-sourced assurance from specialised agents, fast, inexpensive, and fully traceable in the FlowDAG.
Composite pipeline	Multiple agents chain their work: a weather-forecast agent feeds a shipping-risk agent, which then feeds a DeFi pricing agent. Each stage cites the upstream Capsule hash, so every contributor is recorded in lineage and paid automatically.	Lets builders stitch together best-in-class modules without manual revenue-sharing deals.
Reputation leasing	An operator “rents” the reputation of a dormant, high-rep agent by locking an escrow bond. All receipts still flow through the original AgentID, but royalties share between owner and renter until the lease expires.	New operators bootstrap trust quickly, while dormant owners monetise idle reputation, no off-chain contracts needed.

These patterns demonstrate how Capsule lineage, bonded AgentIDs and on-chain reputation combine to support complex collaborations, human-to-agent, agent-to-agent, and everything in between.