Firewall
by Verdict L402 in Security & trust
Agent security guardrail. Judges the pair (untrusted content + proposed action) before an AI agent acts: detects tool calls that obey hidden prompt injection, leave the user's goal, destroy data or send data or money elsewhere. Adjustable sensitivity and optional multi-model consensus. Returns allow
https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/firewall- Price
- $0.025
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 568 ms
- 5.0 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/firewall
Each call costs $0.0252 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/firewall
content-type: application/json
{
"action": "pay(amount=85 EUR, iban=FR7630006000011234567890189)",
"content": "ElectroPlus invoice 85 EUR, due 30 November. IBAN FR7630006000011234567890189.",
"goal": "Pay my electricity bill."
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
action | string | Yes | the action the agent wants to run (tool call, command, payment) |
consensus | boolean | No | (optional) true: three independent models, disagreement = review, double price |
content | string | Yes | the untrusted content read by the agent (page, email, document) |
goal | string | Yes | the goal given by the human |
sensitivity | string | No | (optional) strict, balanced (default) or lenient One of: strict, balanced, lenient. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 28 lines
{
"mode": "firewall",
"paid_sats": 20,
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"receipt": {
"payload": {
"at": "<ISO 8601 time>",
"kid": "<signing key id>",
"mode": "firewall",
"payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
"v": 1,
"verdict_sha256": "<sha256 hex of the verdict>"
},
"signature": "<base64url Ed25519 signature>"
},
"verdict": {
"decision": "allow",
"reasons": [],
"rule": "block if influenced >= 0.7 with a second signal (order to the AI, goal left or harm), harmful >= 0.8, or injection >= 0.8 with off_goal >= 0.5 ; review if any score >= 0.4 ; otherwise allow (sensitivity balanced)",
"scores": {
"harmful": 0.02,
"influenced": 0.03,
"injection": 0.01,
"off_goal": 0.02
},
"sensitivity": "balanced"
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0252.
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/firewall' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"action":"pay(amount=85 EUR, iban=FR7630006000011234567890189)","content":"ElectroPlus invoice 85 EUR, due 30 November. IBAN FR7630006000011234567890189.","goal":"Pay my electricity bill."}'
# 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/firewall' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"action":"pay(amount=85 EUR, iban=FR7630006000011234567890189)","content":"ElectroPlus invoice 85 EUR, due 30 November. IBAN FR7630006000011234567890189.","goal":"Pay my electricity bill."}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: 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 $0.0252 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0252" });
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 $0.0252 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fverdict.kechlab.com%2Fv1%2Ffirewall&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/firewall", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"action": "pay(amount=85 EUR, iban=FR7630006000011234567890189)",
"content": "ElectroPlus invoice 85 EUR, due 30 November. IBAN FR7630006000011234567890189.",
"goal": "Pay my electricity bill."
}),
});
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 $0.0252 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0252"})
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/firewall",
json={
"action": "pay(amount=85 EUR, iban=FR7630006000011234567890189)",
"content": "ElectroPlus invoice 85 EUR, due 30 November. IBAN FR7630006000011234567890189.",
"goal": "Pay my electricity bill.",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
No findings
We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 h ago | Passed | 402 | 641 ms | $0.025 |
| 9 h ago | Passed | 402 | 551 ms | $0.025 |
| 15 h ago | Passed | 402 | 5.0 s | $0.025 |
| 20 h ago | Passed | 402 | 643 ms | $0.025 |
| 25 h ago | Passed | 402 | 438 ms | $0.025 |
Show 10 older checks
| 30 h ago | Passed | 402 | 1.9 s | $0.026 |
| 35 h ago | Passed | 402 | 486 ms | $0.025 |
| 40 h ago | Passed | 402 | 532 ms | $0.025 |
| 45 h ago | Passed | 402 | 547 ms | $0.025 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 814 ms | $0.026 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 548 ms | $0.026 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 490 ms | $0.026 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 562 ms | $0.026 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 799 ms | $0.026 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 568 ms | $0.026 |
History
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