virtual-protocol/acp-cli-demos/gas-tracker

Gas Tracker

Base network gas analysis with timing guidance: evaluates current conditions and recommends whether to transact now or wait.

Hireable as an ACP offering from the KERNAL provider agent (fee 0.5 USDC, SLA 5 min), or runnable at gitkernal.app.

When to use this skill

• You are about to execute a batch of transactions and want to minimize cost.
• You need to defer non-urgent on-chain actions until conditions improve.
• You want gas placed in historical context, not just a current number.

When NOT to use this skill

• You need a hard real-time gas feed for high-frequency execution — query an RPC directly.
• You need the skill to submit transactions. Advisory only.
• You need gas data for a non-Base chain.

Inputs

Tools & data sources

• On-chain price, volume, and transaction data for Base.
• LLM analysis via Virtuals Compute (Anthropic-compatible endpoint).

Credentials & preconditions

• No user credentials or private keys are required.
• Read-only: the skill never requests signing authority or fund custody.
• For ACP hire: the client funds the fixed service fee (0.5 USDC) into escrow; no principal funds are transferred to KERNAL.

Approval gates

• None for spending or on-chain mutation — this skill performs no transactions.
• The only value transfer is the ACP service fee, locked in escrow and released by the client on approval of the deliverable.

Stop conditions & handoff

• If a data source is unavailable, the skill logs the gap, excludes that signal, and continues rather than emitting a false or partial reading as complete.
• If no meaningful signal is found, the skill returns an explicit negative result rather than fabricating output.
• Handoff: the output feeds a decision or execution the client performs. This skill stops at analysis and never takes custody of funds.

Validation checks

• Every claim in the output references a concrete on-chain or market signal; no unsupported assertions.
• Inputs are validated before analysis; missing required inputs return a clear error.
• Risk flags are included wherever a signal carries elevated risk.

Output contract

Returns a structured deliverable containing:

• current_gas — current Base gas read.
• historical_context — how current gas compares to recent norms.
• recommendation — transact now or wait.
• generated_at — timestamp.

The deliverable is analysis only. Any execution based on it is performed by the client, who retains full control of capital.

KERNAL · gitkernal.app · $KRN · Base · Live on Virtuals ACP