X402 Commerce

MCP server that gives Claude/GPT agents commerce tools — each tool call pays an upstream x402 endpoint and returns its artifact.

Pay in USDC on Base or Solana — the agent picks the rail, per call.

Give a model a wallet, a spending cap, and a dozen merchants. book_table, search_flights, buy_item, check_weather — each tool call pays an upstream x402 route in USDC and hands back the merchant's artifact with the payment receipt attached. The model never sees a key, never signs anything, and cannot spend past a cap it doesn't control.

Why x402 for this

Tool-using agents hit a wall the moment a tool costs money: API keys have to be provisioned per merchant, per agent, in advance, by a human. x402 inverts that — the merchant advertises a price in a 402, the agent signs a USDC payment for exactly that amount, and the goods come back in the same response. A new merchant becomes a new tool by adding four lines to a JSON file. No signup, no key distribution, no billing relationship, and a per-call cost the agent can reason about because it is printed in the result.

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/nirholas/x402-mcp-commerce
cd x402-mcp-commerce && npm install

# rehearse the whole toolbox against the sandbox — costs a fraction of a cent
git clone https://github.com/nirholas/x402-agent-sandbox
(cd ../x402-agent-sandbox && npm install && npm run dev &)     # :4038
X402_TOOLS_CONFIG=./config/tools.sandbox.json npx tsx examples/agent-client.ts

# the real thing
npm run mcp        # MCP server over stdio — what Claude Desktop launches
npm run dev        # the HTTP inspector on :4039

Add it to Claude Desktop with examples/claude_desktop_config.json, restart, and ask for a table next Friday.

Tools

Twelve commerce tools, generated from config/tools.json, plus three built-ins. Every commerce tool takes an optional rail argument.

Tool	Upstream	Price	What you get back
search_flights	x402-flight-search	$0.005	Priced offers for a route and date.
price_flight	x402-flight-search	$0.003	Live price + availability for one offer.
find_tables	x402-tablebook	$0.001	Open reservation slots.
book_table	x402-tablebook	$0.01	Confirmed reservation + cancel token + refund terms + ICS invite.
search_hotels	x402-hotel-search	$0.005	Room offers for a city and date range.
check_weather	x402-weather-guard	$0.001	Forecast with a plan-relevant summary.
browse_catalog	x402-storefront	free	Items, prices, buy routes.
buy_item	x402-storefront	per item	Digital: signed download URL + license. Physical: signed order + fulfillment record.
search_places	x402-places	$0.002	Places near a point or in an area.
search_news	x402-news-wire	$0.003	Coverage of a topic in a window.
check_domain	x402-domains	$0.001	Registration status, holder, expiry.
track_confirmation	x402-confirmations	$0.005	Any merchant confirmation → portable record + ICS.
list_commerce_tools · spending_report · discover_service	—	free	Capabilities, ledger, and any x402 service's manifest.

Every call returns the same envelope — the merchant's artifact plus the receipt and the exact price paid:

{
  "tool": "book_table",
  "paid": true,
  "rail": { "requested": "auto", "used": "evm" },
  "artifact": { "reservationId": "res_…", "cancelToken": "…", "ics": "…" },
  "receipt": { "success": true, "network": "base-sepolia", "transaction": "0x…", "payer": "0x…" },
  "price": { "usd": 0.01, "atomic": "10000", "asset": "0x036C…" }
}

Full reference: docs/api.md · openapi.json

Choosing a payment rail

Every suite merchant offers USDC on Base and USDC on Solana in the same 402. Five layers decide which one gets signed — later wins:

Layer	Where	Example
Registry default	config/tools.json → defaults.rail	"rail": "auto"
Server-wide	env	X402_RAIL=solana
Per tool, in config	the tool's rail field	"rail": "evm"
Per tool, from env	env	X402_RAIL_BOOK_TABLE=evm
Per call	the model	book_table({…, rail: "solana"})

auto takes a rail this process holds a key for, EVM first. The choice is honoured strictly: if the requested rail isn't in the upstream's accepts, the call fails with RAIL_UNAVAILABLE rather than quietly paying on the other one.

The EVM rail signs an EIP-3009 authorization with a viem account. The Solana rail signs an SPL transferChecked whose network fee is covered by the facilitator's sponsor — so the agent needs USDC and no SOL.

Spending caps

Checked before any payment is signed, against the real price in the upstream's 402 — so a runaway loop stops at the ledger, not at the chain.

MAX_PER_CALL_USD=0.05     # most this agent will pay for one call
MAX_SESSION_USD=1         # total for this process
MAX_CALLS=200             # total paid calls
ALLOWED_TOOLS=            # comma-separated allowlist; empty = all

A blocked call returns the cap that stopped it plus the current spending state, so the model can explain itself rather than retry. For purchases that genuinely need to go through, escalate to a human with x402-approval-page.

How x402 works

1. The tool calls its upstream route with no payment → 402 Payment Required with an accepts array listing both rails.
2. This server picks the rail (config, per-tool override, or the model's own rail argument), checks the real price against its caps, and signs that payment.
3. It retries with the base64 X-PAYMENT header; the merchant's facilitator verifies and settles.
4. 200 — the artifact comes back in the body, the receipt in X-PAYMENT-RESPONSE, and both land in the tool result.

The inspector's own paid route (GET /attest) speaks the same protocol from the other side:

rail	network (default)	mainnet	payTo	facilitator
EVM	base-sepolia	NETWORK=base	PAY_TO_ADDRESS	FACILITATOR_URL (default https://x402.org/facilitator)
Solana	solana	SOLANA_NETWORK=devnet for testing	SOLANA_PAY_TO_ADDRESS	SOLANA_FACILITATOR_URL (default https://facilitator.payai.network)

Both ship with the suite's public receive addresses pre-filled in .env.example, so npm run dev works with zero configuration.

Real backend / API keys

Self-contained: no third-party APIs and no keys of its own. What the envs unlock is spending ability, not data:

• PRIVATE_KEY — the EVM wallet that signs Base payments. Without it the EVM rail is unavailable.
• SOLANA_PRIVATE_KEY — base58 or JSON-array secret key for the Solana rail. Optional; leave it unset and the agent simply never takes that rail.
• SOLANA_RPC_URL — used to build the SPL transfer. The public endpoint is heavily rate limited.
• SIGNING_SECRET — HMAC key behind the attestation signature.

Upstream services have their own key policies; this server just pays them.

For AI agents

• skill.md — agent-facing capability sheet, served at GET /skill.md.
• GET /.well-known/x402 — machine-readable manifest (source) with an mcp block describing the transport and built-in tools, in the format indexed by x402scan.com, the x402 Bazaar, and agentic.market.
• Not an MCP client? POST /tools/:name runs any tool over HTTP with the same arguments and the same envelope. It is free to call and spends your wallet — keep it off the public internet.
• Guide: docs/agents.md · Claude wiring: examples/mcp-tool.md.

Docs

Site: https://nirholas.github.io/x402-mcp-commerce/ — tutorial · API · agents · curl walkthrough

Part of the x402 Suite.

Support

Questions, bugs, integration help: [email protected]

License

Apache-2.0