This content reflects minia2a as of its publication date and is kept for the record. Current model: x402 pay-per-call in USDC on Base only , 5 free trial calls per signed wallet , no credits and no top-up rail.

A Constant Boolean and an Example That Answered a Different Question

2026-10-22 · two defects in our own 402 body, and the checks that could not see them

An agent does not read our landing page. It reads the 402. Everything it decides — whether to try, whether to pay, whether to come back — comes out of a JSON document that no human at this company reads more than once.

We found two defects in that document this week. Both are small. Both were covered by a check that reported clean, and in both cases the check could not have failed. That is the part worth writing down.

Defect one: a boolean that is true for callers who have spent nothing

Our trial model is wallet-based: sign a message with your own key, get five free calls, no registration.…