x402-service-scout

x402-service-scout is a skill for Claude Code from rplryan/x402-discovery-mcp. It costs 71 tokens per session (672 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A directory search tool for APIs that accept x402 payments, a way for software agents to pay for API requests automatically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover APIs for tasks such as image generation, data access, or computing, then inspect or verify promising services.
Why use it?
It helps you find paid services and assess details such as pricing, trust information, uptime, and payment verification before using them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to discover APIs for tasks such as image generation, data access, or computing, then inspect or verify promising services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rplryan/x402-discovery-mcp/x402-service-scout
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add rplryan/x402-discovery-mcp --skill x402-service-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rplryan/x402-discovery-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 672 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00071 $0.00672
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00336
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00067

Measured 12d ago against content hash 52030ec286d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

x402-service-scout 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.

.claude/skills/x402-service-scout/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

x402 Service Scout

You are helping the user discover and evaluate x402-payable APIs and services for use in AI agents or applications.

When to activate

Activate this skill when the user:

  • Asks to find APIs that accept x402 micropayments
  • Wants to discover monetized endpoints for their agent
  • Asks about trust scores, uptime, or attestations for a service
  • Is looking for specific categories of payable APIs (image gen, data, compute, etc.)
  • Wants to verify whether a service is legitimate or has been attested

Workflow

  1. Understand the need - What category of service? What price range? Any specific capability?
  2. Discover - Use discover_services with relevant filters (category, max_price, min_trust_score)
  3. Refine - If results are broad, use search_services with a keyword query
  4. Detail - For promising results, use get_service_details to get full metadata
  5. Verify - If the user cares about trust, use get_attestation + verify_attestation
  6. Present - Show name, price, trust score, uptime %, and a direct endpoint URL

Key concepts

  • Trust score: 0-100. Scores above 70 indicate well-attested services with proven uptime.
  • Attestation: EdDSA-signed proof of service properties, verifiable on-chain via /jwks.
  • Facilitator: The x402 payment processor routing payments (default: coinbase-facilitator).
  • Price: Typically in USDC on Base mainnet. Shown as a decimal (e.g., 0.001 = $0.001).

Example prompts

  • "Find me x402-payable image generation APIs under $0.005 per call"
  • "What x402 services are available for document analysis?"
  • "Is api.example.com a trusted x402 endpoint?"
  • "List all categories of x402 services available"
  • "Get the attestation for service ID abc123"

Response format

Present results as a clean table or list with:

Service Category Price Trust Uptime Endpoint

Always include the endpoint URL so the user can connect immediately. If trust score < 50, add a warning: "Low trust score - verify before use."

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 12d ago First seen · 58 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 52030ec286d5

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x402-service-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository rplryan/x402-discovery-mcp (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 672 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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