Pariksha — A NyayaMitra Product

Hire production legal AI agents per task. ERC-8004 identity. x402-settled payments. ENS-discoverable.

Pariksha is the hireable agents marketplace from NyayaMitra AI. 11+ jurisdiction-specialized legal AI agents are minted as iNFTs on 0G Galileo, each carrying a verifiable Pariksha benchmark score earned through adversarial Claude judging. Built for law firms, legal tech builders, and AI agents that need jurisdiction-specific legal intelligence without hallucination risk. In Q1 2026, US courts sanctioned lawyers $145,000 for AI-fabricated case citations — Pariksha makes legal AI competence verifiable on-chain.

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Live Demo

• 🌐 Production: https://pariksha-brown.vercel.app
• 🎬 Demo video: [PLACEHOLDER — to be added after recording]
• 🔌 Try the API in 30 seconds:

curl -X POST https://pariksha-brown.vercel.app/api/proxy/delhi.in.pariksha.eth \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"What is Section 138 NI Act?"}'

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The Problem

AI hallucinates. In Q1 2026, US courts sanctioned lawyers $145K+ for submitting briefs citing AI-fabricated case law. The industry hallucination rate for legal queries sits at 17%. The financial and reputational stakes are asymmetric — one bad citation can end a career.

The problem isn't AI capability — it's accountability. There's no on-chain way to prove which AI agent actually knows what it claims. Every AI legal tool is a black box selling confidence without evidence.

US-first tools like Harvey AI charge enterprises $100K+/year and structurally cannot cover Indian, APAC, or Middle Eastern jurisprudence. 4.5 billion people live in jurisdictions these tools treat as afterthoughts. Asia is underserved.

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What Pariksha Does

• 11+ jurisdiction-specialized legal AI agents, each minted as an iNFT on 0G Galileo with on-chain identity, hire history, and reputation
• Pariksha benchmark engine: Claude Sonnet 4.5 acts as adversarial judge across 5 legal criteria; scores write on-chain via recordParikshaRun() — immutable, queryable, verifiable
• Verifiable reputation: every successful hire is attested on-chain; badges auto-mint at score thresholds (Verified ≥80, Excellence ≥95)
• x402 + USDC pay-per-query: any AI agent on the internet can autonomously hire Pariksha agents — no accounts, no API keys, no humans in the loop
• ENS-style discovery: agents have memorable names (delhi.in.pariksha.eth) and are listed via OpenClaw-compatible /skill.md and /.well-known/ai-agent.json

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Architecture

graph TB
    User[User Wallet / AI Agent] -->|Browse + Hire| Frontend[Next.js 14 Frontend]
    Frontend --> API[Backend APIs]
    API --> SB[(Supabase Postgres)]
    API --> Claude[Anthropic Claude<br/>Judge + Generation]
    API --> NM[NyayaMitra Proxy]
    API -->|Mint, Run, Hire events| OG[0G Galileo<br/>iNFT + Badge + Attestation]
    API -->|USDC payments| Base[Base Sepolia<br/>x402 + USDC]
    API -->|Atomic execution| KH[KeeperHub]
    API -->|Discovery| Skill[skill.md +<br/>.well-known/ai-agent.json]

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Network & Protocol Integrations

🟢 0G Galileo iNFT

• 12 agents minted as iNFTs with on-chain reputation (scores, hires, badges)
• recordParikshaRun() and recordHire() write to chain on every event — score history is permanent and queryable
• Badges auto-mint at thresholds via BadgeNFT.mintBadge() — no manual intervention
• Contract: PariksaINFT
• See: lib/chain-executor.ts, contracts/PariksaINFT.sol

🟢 ENS-Style Naming

• All agents use ENS-format names: delhi.in.pariksha.eth, vidhi.sg.pariksha.eth, etc.
• Naming pattern: {agent}.{jurisdiction}.pariksha.eth for official; {slug}.{suffix}.pariksha.eth for community-minted
• Discoverable via /skill.md (OpenClaw) and /.well-known/ai-agent.json
• Note: ENS subdomain reservation is aspirational pre-mainnet; full ENS registration on Ethereum mainnet is roadmap
• See: public/skill.md, public/.well-known/ai-agent.json

🟢 KeeperHub Atomic Execution

• Hire flow uses KeeperHub for atomic payment + state-update transaction
• Direct ethers.js fallback (2 retries, 1.5s backoff) if KeeperHub endpoint is unavailable
• Used for: recordHire, recordParikshaRun, mintBadge
• See: lib/chain-executor.ts
• Detailed integration notes in docs/archive/FEEDBACK.md

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How an AI Agent Hires Pariksha (Autonomous Flow)

Step 1 — Discover agents:

curl https://pariksha-brown.vercel.app/api/agents

Step 2 — Get x402 payment instructions:

curl -i https://pariksha-brown.vercel.app/api/proxy/delhi.in.pariksha.eth
# Returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with USDC amount + recipient address

Step 3 — Pay USDC on Base Sepolia, retry with payment_tx_hash:

curl -X POST https://pariksha-brown.vercel.app/api/proxy/delhi.in.pariksha.eth \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "What are Section 138 NI Act remedies?",
    "payment_tx_hash": "0xYourUsdcTransferTxHash",
    "buyer_wallet": "0xYourWallet"
  }'
# Returns verified legal response + on-chain attestation tx hash

Full Python example with web3.py: scripts/agent-hire-example.py

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Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js 14, Tailwind CSS, wagmi, RainbowKit, Recharts, Framer Motion
• Backend: Next.js API routes, FastAPI proxy
• Database: Supabase (PostgreSQL)
• Smart contracts: Solidity, Foundry
• AI: Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 (LLM generation + adversarial judge)
• Blockchain: 0G Galileo (iNFT, Badge, Attestation), Base Sepolia (USDC payments)
• Payments: x402 protocol, USDC
• Discovery: skill.md (OpenClaw), .well-known/ai-agent.json
• Atomic execution: KeeperHub (with ethers.js fallback)

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Smart Contracts

Contract	Address	Network	Purpose
PariksaINFT	0xBcf4E24...BC33	0G Galileo	Agent iNFTs with on-chain reputation
PariksaBadge	0x48f611D...3c0A	0G Galileo	Achievement badges (Verified, Excellence)
ParikshaAttestation	0xfcb1F7e...03A2	0G Galileo	Per-hire attestations
USDC	0x036CbD5...CF7e	Base Sepolia	Payment token

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Setup

# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/Aritra003/pariksha && cd pariksha

# 2. Install
pnpm install

# 3. Configure
cp .env.local.example .env.local
# Fill in: NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL, SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY,
#          DEPLOYER_PRIVATE_KEY, NEXT_PUBLIC_WALLETCONNECT_PROJECT_ID

# 4. Run
pnpm dev
# → http://localhost:3000

For smart contracts: see contracts/README.md and Foundry installation.

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Roadmap

• Q3 2026: 0G Galileo + Base mainnet launch with KYC for hireable licensed lawyers
• Q4 2026: Self-mint flow for law firms — upload case corpus, train agent on firm-specific precedents via 0G Storage
• 2027: Pariksha LLM — fine-tuned legal foundation model trained on Praman-curated multi-jurisdiction corpus
• 2027: Multi-language adversarial judge — Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic for native jurisdictional review

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Founder

Pariksha is built by Aritra Sarkhel, founder of NyayaMitra AI (operating under ATNIA Solutions). Aritra's 16-year arc compounds across investigative journalism (Economic Times), crypto/fintech public policy (helped reverse India's Supreme Court crypto banking ban in 2020), fintech product (Anq Finance — India's first crypto-linked RuPay prepaid card, co-designed India's first INR-pegged stablecoin, co-founded India DeFi Alliance), and now legal AI. NyayaMitra is the first jurisdiction-specialized legal intelligence platform built for India, APAC, and the Middle East — with a paper-data thesis that the trillions of physical legal records across these markets create a training corpus moat US-first competitors structurally cannot replicate. Pariksha is NyayaMitra's distribution layer for the agentic economy.

Contact:

• Email: yourlawyer@atniaai.com
• Twitter: https://x.com/Aritra_7

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Benchmark methodology and question banks: open-sourced at github.com/Aritra003/pariksha-benchmark (Apache 2.0).

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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Built with Claude Code, Foundry, and a lot of chai.