payperbyte

payperbyte is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 0rkz/byte-mcp-server. It costs 187 tokens per session (1,857 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service for buying verified external data for AI agents one byte at a time with USDC, a cryptocurrency dollar equivalent. It checks the data against a cryptographic record before the agent acts on it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for signed checks such as payment-address risk, sanctions screening, package safety, market positioning, and liquidation events.
Why use it?
It helps agents avoid acting on altered or untrusted data when the source and integrity of the information matter.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0rkz/byte-mcp-server/byte-mcp-server
Any agent
npx skills add 0rkz/byte-mcp-server --skill byte-mcp-server
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0rkz/byte-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 187 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,857 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00187 $0.01857
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00186

Measured 5d ago against content hash aade797011cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

payperbyte scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PayPerByte (BYTE Library) — verified per-byte data for agents

PayPerByte is a data layer for AI agents. An agent discovers a first-party feed, pays per byte in USDC over x402 (a wallet signs an EIP-3009 transferWithAuthorizationno API key, no signup, no token), receives the payload, and then verifies it against an on-chain EIP-712 PayloadAttestation before acting on it. That verify step is the wedge: the agent does not assume the data is intact, it proves it.

When to use this skill

Reach for PayPerByte when the task needs external data the agent will act on and provenance matters — i.e. you want to be able to prove the data was not altered. Good triggers:

  • "Should I pay this address?" — the flagship Address Reputation Oracle returns a signed ALLOW/WARN/BLOCK verdict for (domain, receiving address, amount, chain) before an agent releases USDC ($0.10 per verdict).
  • "Screen <address / name> against sanctions lists" (sanctions-screen), "is <npm/PyPI package> safe to install / deprecated" (pkg-verdict).
  • "Current exchange positioning snapshot" (positioning-snapshot), "recent liquidation events" (liquidation-stream).
  • "What's the weather / are there recent earthquakes" (weather, earthquakes).
  • "Threat-intel / IOCs / exploit signals" (threat-intel), "is <runtime/version> end-of-life" (runtime-eol).
  • "Fact-check this claim with cited sources" (evidence-pack).

Do not use it for: general reasoning, or data the model already knows reliably. Note that paid x402 calls spend real USDC — see Status.

Status (state this honestly)

  • x402 pay-per-call rail (byte_buy_data): Base mainnet, eip155:8453, real USDC (Circle USDC, EIP-3009, 6 decimals). Per-feed price is quoted in the 402 challenge; the flagship address-reputation verdict is $0.10. Every paid 200 returns an X-BYTE-Attestation EIP-712 receipt over the exact response bytes.
  • On-chain layer (subscriptions, broadcasts, fact-oracle escrow): Arbitrum Sepolia testnet, chain 421614 / eip155:421614, settled in a testnet MockUSDC. Mainnet for this layer is gated on an external security audit.
  • The EIP-712 PayloadAttestation signing domain (literal name BYTE Library) is anchored on eip155:421614 regardless of which rail the agent paid on; an off-chain attestation is not a claim that the verdict was broadcast on-chain.
  • No token. No external-user, revenue, or traction claims.
  • PRIVATE_KEY signs real Base-mainnet USDC for buys AND testnet txs for the on-chain tools. Use a dedicated wallet holding only what you intend to spend.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 143 lines · 187 tokens per session scan A aade797011cf

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payperbyte is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0rkz/byte-mcp-server (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 187 tokens to every session and 1,857 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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