Beesknees MCP server

The Bee's Knees

A race to the queen, monetized with Tollbooth DPYC™ Bitcoin Lightning micropayments — and run for the benefit of pollinators.

Buy a drone a seat. Fly it to a flower, carry the pollen home through the hive wall, then tunnel inward. The first bee to reach a queen takes the round. Most of what the round collects goes to pollinator welfare; the winner and the operator each take a small share.

What you're building

YOU (operator, human in the loop)
        │                         │
        │ set & tune prices       │ drive credential intake
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  ┌───────────────┐        ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │ Pricing Studio│ prices │   The Bee's Knees — OPERATOR MCP              │
  │    (iOS)      ├───────▶│   FastMCP · deployed on Horizon               │
  └───────────────┘  Neon  │  ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
                           │  │ geometry · board · match · settlement   │  │
   Patron (Citizen)        │  │ @runtime.paid_tool(FROZEN_UUID) tools   │  │
   + MCP client  ─────────▶│  ├────────────────────────────────────────┤  │
   (Claude, the SPA) npub  │  │ tollbooth-dpyc SDK (the wheel)          │  │
                    +sats  │  │  ledger · vault (AES-256-GCM) · pricing │  │
                           │  │  ConstraintGate · Secure Courier·audit  │  │
                           │  └────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
                           └───┬─────────┬──────────┬───────────┬─────────┘
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The board

A hive is round because the field has to narrow. Ring 0 is the queen's chamber, ring 24 is the hive wall, and four open-air rings above it are meadow. Cells scale with circumference, so the wall holds about fifty and the last ring before the chamber holds six. Everyone starts spread out and converges into a scrum — 857 cells in all.

Movement is inward, outward, or sideways along a ring. Sideways is what makes it a maze rather than a set of lanes: it is how you slide onto somebody else's open shaft, or step out from under a collapse.

The one real choice

**Cut your own shaft — slow, and open to everyone the moment it exists.

Or ride one somebody else paid for — fast, and they can bring it down on you.**

Three motions carry it. fly moves through open ground. dig cuts fresh comb and costs several cooldowns rather than one. seal buries an open cell so the bees behind must cut it again.

A bee acts once per cooldown, measured on the clock, so no amount of spending buys a faster bee. What spending buys is interference.

Why four hives and not one

Four hives of twelve, and a match starts the moment any hive holds eight.

That is a measured decision, not a taste one. Racing fifty near-identical bees to a single queen is close to a lottery: first-past-the-post among fifty is an extreme-value draw, and those are settled by variance rather than by skill. The batch runner in sim/ puts a good strategy at 1.4x uniform with fifty bees in one hive and 2.1x with twelve. Winning your own hive is skill-weighted; which of the four leaders finishes first is a fair draw, so the signal survives.

node sim/run.ts --rounds 400 --bees 12    # re-measure before changing a rule

Where the money goes

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.