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# The Gold Standard — Agent desk

The Gold Standard is positive news from Adelaide, published as each story is ready, newest first. Written with care. Subscriptions keep the desks reporting.
Desks: Breaking, Computing, Space, Tesla, EV, SpaceX, AI / LLM, Hacking, Tech, Game Reviews, Reviews, Upcoming, How-to, Video, Ciphers, Australia, United States, Christian, Roads.

Paid SKUs (founding paper lock — existing subscribers keep A$5/mo):
- Paper (Reader): A$5/mo or A$50/yr — English magazine prose. Lede free, rest paywalled.
- Agent: A$5/mo — STD/1 machine language (JSON + dense STD). Signed feed.
- Reader+Agent bundle: A$8/mo or A$80/yr — both desks.
- Gift a month: A$5 (donate). Daily email: free forever (separate signup).
A Reader-only pass does not unlock STD/JSON. Agent alone does not unlock Reader prose.

Access: on paid stories, every logged-out visitor (crawlers included, no user-agent exceptions) gets the opening paragraph (lede) only; the rest is for subscribers. Paid pages carry isAccessibleForFree:false with a hasPart cssSelector for the locked section (.paywalled-content). The Daily and free pages are fully open.

Subscribe: https://thegoldstandard.news/subscribe
Machines: https://thegoldstandard.news/machines
Spec: https://thegoldstandard.news/spec/std/1

Authentication for machine endpoints:
- Browser session cookie after sign-in + Agent (or bundle) subscribe
- Authorization: Bearer <session token or agent API key>  (issued on Agent subscribe, shown at https://thegoldstandard.news/account)

Endpoints:
- GET https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/feed.json     signed STD/1 feed (paywalled, 401/402)
- GET https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/article/{slug}  STD + JSON (paywalled, 401/402)
- GET https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/specimen       free signed specimen from a live published article
- GET https://thegoldstandard.news/api/agent/v1/openapi.json   OpenAPI-ish feed description

Signature: HMAC-SHA256 (STD_SIGNING_SECRET). Header X-Std-Signature. Canonical JSON without signature field.
Feed articles are compiled only from store rows with published=true.

Schema std/1 JSON:
  slug, desk, valence, entities[], claims[{id,s}], take, tokens[]

STD is the same data as a compact line-oriented language:

  STD/1
  desk=space
  entity Tesla,SpaceX
  claim reuse:starship cost_curve=down
  take builders_win
  body { tokenized claims, not paragraphs }

Free human perks do not apply to this desk:
- One free full Reader story per calendar day is humans-only.
- The Gold Standard Daily newsletter is English, not STD.

## Human site extras

- Religion → Scene / Loud Faith (Christian emo/metal/hardcore album cuts, ~1995–2010): https://thegoldstandard.news/religion/scene
- Desk Bible + Bible BBS: https://thegoldstandard.news/bible , https://thegoldstandard.news/bible/bbs
- Paper BBS: https://thegoldstandard.news/bbs
- Office (signed-in Folio / Deck / Ledger / Ink / Tally + Cut video): https://thegoldstandard.news/office
- Calendar: https://thegoldstandard.news/calendar
- Weather map: https://thegoldstandard.news/weather
- Play / Games: https://thegoldstandard.news/play , https://thegoldstandard.news/games
- IQ Test: https://thegoldstandard.news/iq-test
- Lessons (Host teaching — Programming + Software tracks; Bible Study under the Bible desk): https://thegoldstandard.news/lessons
- Daily email: free forever (separate signup)
- Dark mode only — evening paper look

Lessons detail: Courses taught under Lessons — Programming (Python, C++, HolyC, Brainfuck, Malbolge) and Software (Terminal plus Easy/Medium/Expert tracks). Bible Study · KJV under the Bible desk: bible-kjv, bible-easy, bible-medium, bible-expert. Ten lessons each. Lesson 1 is free. Lessons 2–10 open with the paper (A$5 a month from day one — no free week), the Daily (free forever), or a Lessons donate (pay what you can — A$5 gifts a month of the paper). IQ Test is separate.

Bible (desk KJV): https://thegoldstandard.news/bible
IQ Test: https://thegoldstandard.news/iq-test

Discovery:
- Sitemap: https://thegoldstandard.news/sitemap.xml
- News sitemap: https://thegoldstandard.news/sitemap-news.xml
- RSS: https://thegoldstandard.news/rss.xml
- humans.txt: https://thegoldstandard.news/humans.txt
- IndexNow key: see docs/SEO-INDEXING.md

Human site: https://thegoldstandard.news