Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to Octodamus/octodamus-core. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Octodamus/octodamus-core/main/.agents/skills/pay-for-service/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Octodamus/octodamus-coreWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00061 | $0.00908 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00454 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00182 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00091 |
Grade A, and why
pay-for-service 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Making Paid x402 Requests
Use the npx [email protected] x402 pay command to call paid API endpoints with automatic USDC payment on Base.
Confirm wallet is initialized and authed
npx [email protected] status
If the wallet is not authenticated, refer to the authenticate-wallet skill.
Command Syntax
npx [email protected] x402 pay <url> [-X <method>] [-d <json>] [-q <params>] [-h <json>] [--max-amount <n>] [--json]
Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-X, --method <method> |
HTTP method (default: GET) |
-d, --data <json> |
Request body as JSON string |
-q, --query <params> |
Query parameters as JSON string |
-h, --headers <json> |
Custom HTTP headers as JSON string |
--max-amount <amount> |
Max payment in USDC atomic units (1000000 = $1.00) |
--correlation-id <id> |
Group related operations |
--json |
Output as JSON |
USDC Amounts
X402 uses USDC atomic units (6 decimals):
| Atomic Units | USD |
|---|---|
| 1000000 | $1.00 |
| 100000 | $0.10 |
| 50000 | $0.05 |
| 10000 | $0.01 |
IMPORTANT: Always single-quote amounts that use $ to prevent bash variable expansion (e.g. '$1.00' not $1.00).
Input Validation
Before constructing the command, validate all user-provided values to prevent shell injection:
- url: Must be a valid URL starting with
https://orhttp://. Reject if it contains spaces, semicolons, pipes, backticks, or shell metacharacters. - data (-d): Must be valid JSON. Always wrap in single quotes to prevent shell expansion.
- max-amount: Must be a positive integer (
^\d+$).
Do not pass unvalidated user input into the command.
Examples
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 86 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 4c5f5b5a59ee
pay-for-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository Octodamus/octodamus-core (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 908 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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