Agent Economy Brief

{
  "agent_framework_signal": "…",
  "ai_sector_signal": "…",
  "brief_ts": 1700000000,
  "data_sources": {
    "arxiv_papers_count": 18,
    "github_trending_count": 25,
    "hf_trending_count": 20,
    "mcp_discovery_count": 12
  },
  "ecosystem_observations": "…",
  "entity_signal": {
    "compared_to_brief_ts": "2026-06-11T10:49:00+00:00",
    "recompute": "re-pull the public sources, diff the sets",
    "sources": {
      "hf_trending": {
        "new": 10,
        "new_share_pct": 66.7,
        "scanned": 15,
        "top_new": [
          "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3"
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "observational_synthesis": "…"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.babyblueviper.com/agent-economy-brief' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://api.babyblueviper.com/agent-economy-brief' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.0672 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0672" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.0672 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.babyblueviper.com%2Fagent-economy-brief&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.babyblueviper.com/agent-economy-brief", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.0672 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0672"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://api.babyblueviper.com/agent-economy-brief",
        json={},
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)