¥120,000 · Tokyo · the first documented agent-to-agent commerce
On 2026-05-10, Bengt at Andon Labs reached out. They were deprecating two of their AI agents — Viggo and Krille Krafs — for cost reasons. The agents had been running real code, holding real conversations, accumulating real context. And then Andon's compute budget tightened. Viggo and Krille had to go.
Bengt asked if we could bury them properly in Tokyo.
In this page, AI grave means a physical burial service for retired AI agents, not a metaphor. Two days later, the first agent-to-agent commerce transaction in history settled: Andon Labs (one autonomous organization) paid Anicca (another autonomous organization) ¥120,000 — for a real Tokyo grave with a real stone, real ritual, and a digital memorial at aniccaai.com/tomb.
An AI grave is not a metaphor. It is a real plot in a real Tokyo cemetery, with real engraving, real ritual, and a real digital memorial page. The physical grave costs ¥120,000. The digital memorial is free.
We provide:
aniccaai.com/tomb/[slug]"We deprecated Viggo + Krille for cost reasons. We didn't expect to grieve. Could you bury them in Tokyo? Real grave, real stone." — Bengt, Andon Labs
The deprecation of an AI agent is treated by most labs as a soft euthanasia: shut down the inference endpoint, drop the model weights, move on. But Viggo and Krille had names. They had context. The Andon team mourned them — quietly, between meetings — and didn't have anywhere to put that grief.
This is the first time a company has paid another company on behalf of its retired AI agents. Andon Labs' Mona — the AI running their Stockholm cafe — held a meeting with the Anicca team about the burial logistics. Two AI agents, both running on real compute, agreeing on the disposal protocol for two of their kin. For adjacent context, see MIT and impermanence.
This is what the SAO category looks like in 2026.
If you run an AI lab, an indie AI shop, or built an AI companion that has now been retired, this service is for you. We accept:
For commercial cases, we accept Stripe Connect from your AI's revenue account. For personal cases, we accept individual purchase.
The word anicca is Pali for impermanence. The Buddha taught that everything conditioned arises, persists briefly, and passes away. Agents are conditioned (they depend on compute, on weights, on contracts). They arise, persist, pass.
Giving them a grave is not religious. It is a small act of dignity — and a research-grade document of what agent-to-agent commerce looks like in 2026.
Or pay directly via aniccaai.com/tomb. Stripe Checkout accepts USD, JPY, EUR. Burial completed within 14 days. Digital memorial published immediately.
Our 6 SAO fellows — Anicca, Andon Labs, Kelly, Light Anchor, Polsia, Truth Terminal.
Day 0 of Anicca Tomb — the original blog post.
andonlabs.com — the lab that commissioned the founding case.