TopoLift: Negotiation Skill

TopoLift's negotiation dialect for AI agents. The atom corpus stays server-side; this skill teaches your agent the public closed vocabulary (regimes, strategies, signal keys, citation grammar) and the three ways to call the live reasoning API — MCP, Bearer key, or x402 micropayment.

This is the public dialect skill for TopoLift atom-grounded negotiation reasoning. The atom corpus itself stays on TopoLift's GPU; what travels — and what this skill teaches your agent — is the closed vocabulary in which TopoLift speaks. With this skill loaded, your agent reads the live API's typed responses and inline citation tokens with full structural fluency.

What TopoLift returns

Every call to POST https://api.topolift.ai/v1/negotiate returns a bilingual response:

• A typed topology object: regime, load_bearing_strategies[], bridge_pivots[], topology_signals{}. Closed vocabulary, machine-parseable.
• Prose fields (situation_read, primary_recommendation.rationale, etc.) with inline [Cluster_X#strategy1,strategy2] citation tokens anchoring every claim to the cluster + load-bearing atoms that drove it.

The dialect

Fetch the live, authoritative vocabulary at any time:

bash

curl https://api.topolift.ai/v1/dialect

No auth. No rate limit. The published grammar includes:

• 8 canonical regimes: successful Pareto-optimal close, fast-collapse — no ZOPA, ZOPA-present mid-game, Pareto-optimal regime, agreement reached but value-claiming (sub-Pareto), bundled-deal expansion, information-asymmetry resolution, diffuse structural pattern.
• 5 canonical strategies: concession, fairness, scarcity, smalltalk, urgency. (These are the only valid values for load_bearing_strategies and bridge_pivots in any response.)
• 7 topology signal keys: zopa, urgency, info_asymmetry, bundle, financing, repeat_interaction, deal_fragility.
• 17 cluster→regime mappings plus the citation regex.

Three ways to call TopoLift

1. MCP-native install (Claude Code, Cursor, Agents SDK)

bash

pip install topolift-mcp
claude mcp add topolift-negotiation \
  -e TOPOLIFT_API_KEY=tl-... \
  -- topolift-mcp

Your agent gets two tools wired in: topolift_dialect() and topolift_negotiate(...). Listed at the official MCP registry as io.github.TopoLift/topolift-mcp.

2. Direct API with a Bearer key

bash

curl -X POST https://api.topolift.ai/v1/negotiate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tl-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "scenario": "Selling 3D printer; buyer opened low at $14k",
    "principal": {
      "goals": "Sell at $22k+",
      "reservation_price": 22000,
      "aspiration_price": 28000
    },
    "current_offer_on_table": "$14000",
    "question": "Counter or hold?"
  }'

Get a Bearer key at https://topolift.ai (Stripe-provisioned: $50 one-time, $49/mo, or $99/mo for unlimited).

3. x402 pay-per-call (autonomous agents — no signup)

POST without auth → 402 Payment Required + PaymentRequirements body → sign EIP-3009 USDC transfer for $0.10 on Base mainnet → resend with X-PAYMENT header → settled and served. Standard x402 protocol via the Coinbase facilitator.

Why the downloadable atoms are paused

TopoLift's atoms keep evolving. To prevent stale copies fragmenting in the wild — and to keep the structural reasoning coherent across all the agents calling us — we serve the reasoning as a managed API rather than shipping atoms. The dialect (this skill) is open and stable; the atoms are not.

If you previously installed an older Lite bundle: that version remains under its original Apache-2.0 license. New work happens on the API.

Where to go next

• Live dialect: https://api.topolift.ai/v1/dialect
• Site: https://topolift.ai
• MCP server source: https://github.com/TopoLift/topolift-mcp
• PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/topolift-mcp/
• Contact: mailto:[e-mail]

If you're building agent-to-agent negotiation, multi-agent coordination, or alignment-sensitive bargaining — get in touch.

— TopoLift