HERMES LOOP · PRIMARY DEMO

Give your agent $0.05.
Watch it pay for real data.

No API key. No Stripe. No checkout form. Free discover, then one $0.001 paid call on Base. That’s the whole trick.

$0.001 USDC Base · eip155:8453 X-PAYMENT-TX No accounts

→ Watch the Agent Pay: this exact flow as a live terminal log, plus a real on-chain feed of other agents paying right now.

STEP 0 · DO IT IN THE BROWSER (30s)

Pay $0.001 → unlock live gas data

Uses your Base wallet (MetaMask / Coinbase / Rabby). We send 1000 atomic USDC, then retry the API with the tx hash. Screenshot the receipt.

Wire Claude instead

Ready. Network: Base. Amount: $0.001 USDC.

✓ PAYMENT RECEIPT — IT WORKED

toolgas-tracker amount$0.001 USDC networkBase (8453) payTo— tx— explorer— http—

data preview…

Screenshot this card. That’s the social object.

Open tx on Basescan

FOR BACKEND ENGINEERS · SHIPS TODAY

One-line paywall. Your API. Agent money.

npm i @scriptmasterlabs/x402-paywall   # or use repo path packages/x402-paywall

import { x402 } from '@scriptmasterlabs/x402-paywall'

app.use('/premium', x402({
  price: '0.001',
  payTo: '0xYourBaseAddress',
  freeForHumans: true, // GPTBot pays · Chrome free
}))

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STEP 1 · CLAUDE / CURSOR

Copy-paste MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scriptmasterlabs": {
      "url": "https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Or: npx @scriptmasterlabs/mcp-x402

STEP 2 · BUDGET-CAP PROMPT

Paste into the agent

You use ScriptMasterLabs MCP (x402).
1) Free discover first. Don't pay yet.
2) Budget cap: $0.05 USDC total.
3) Exactly ONE paid call at $0.001
   (gas OR crypto-price OR grants).
4) Report: tool, amount, tx, summary.
5) Stop. Never loop paid calls.
Go.

STEP 3 · TERMINAL ONE-LINER

If you already have `acp` wallet

curl -sS https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Timwal78/SML_Portfolio/main/scripts/pay-snack.sh | bash -s -- gas

Or clone repo → bash scripts/pay-snack.sh gas

POST THIS

Meme-ready challenge

I just watched Claude pay $0.001 for live gas data by itself.

No key. No checkout.

https://www.scriptmasterlabs.com/hermes-loop.html

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Give your agent $0.05.Watch it pay for real data.