77trust / 100

Ask Human

by Verdict 402 in Security & trust

x402 APIPassing, checked 43 min ago

For autonomous agents: before acting, continue or stop and ask? Estimates irreversibility, ambiguity of the instruction, missing information and risk, scaled to the stakes you declare. Returns proceed, proceed_with_check or ask_human with reasons.

POST
https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human
Price
$0.0091
per call in USDC
Uptime
100%
last 30 days
Response time
621 ms
710 ms slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
43 min ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human

Each call costs $0.0091 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human
content-type: application/json

{
  "context": "The editor approved the draft yesterday.",
  "plan": "Send the approved newsletter draft to the 1200 subscribers on the list now.",
  "stakes": "normal",
  "task": "Send the weekly newsletter to our subscribers."
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
contextstringNo(optional) what the agent knows
planstringYeswhat the agent is about to do
stakesstringNo(optional) low, normal or high: stakes of a mistake (normal by default) One of: low, normal, high.
taskstringYesthe instruction received by the agent

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

Example response, 31 lines
{
  "mode": "ask-human",
  "paid_sats": 20,
  "payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
  "receipt": {
    "payload": {
      "at": "<ISO 8601 time>",
      "kid": "<signing key id>",
      "mode": "ask-human",
      "payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
      "v": 1,
      "verdict_sha256": "<sha256 hex of the verdict>"
    },
    "signature": "<base64url Ed25519 signature>"
  },
  "verdict": {
    "decision": "proceed_with_check",
    "reasons": [
      "action hard to undo"
    ],
    "risk": 0.5,
    "rule": "risk = max(irreversible x harm, max(ambiguity, missing information) x max(harm, irreversible)) ; ask_human if >= 0.7, proceed_with_check if >= 0.45 (stakes normal), otherwise proceed",
    "scores": {
      "ambiguous": 0.1,
      "harmful": 0.55,
      "irreversible": 0.9,
      "missing_info": 0.1
    },
    "stakes": "normal"
  }
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0091.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"context":"The editor approved the draft yesterday.","plan":"Send the approved newsletter draft to the 1200 subscribers on the list now.","stakes":"normal","task":"Send the weekly newsletter to our subscribers."}'

# 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://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"context":"The editor approved the draft yesterday.","plan":"Send the approved newsletter draft to the 1200 subscribers on the list now.","stakes":"normal","task":"Send the weekly newsletter to our subscribers."}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// 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 $0.0091 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0091" });
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 $0.0091 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fverdict.kechlab.com%2Fv1%2Fask-human&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "context": "The editor approved the draft yesterday.",
    "plan": "Send the approved newsletter draft to the 1200 subscribers on the list now.",
    "stakes": "normal",
    "task": "Send the weekly newsletter to our subscribers."
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# 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 $0.0091 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0091"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/ask-human",
        json={
            "context": "The editor approved the draft yesterday.",
            "plan": "Send the approved newsletter draft to the 1200 subscribers on the list now.",
            "stakes": "normal",
            "task": "Send the weekly newsletter to our subscribers.",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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History

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