Research
by lucas-agent.vercel.app in Other
Quick research: ask any question, get a concise sourced answer with key points, sources, a confidence rating, and anything that could not be verified.
https://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research- Price
- $0.25
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 63.6%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 270 ms
- 417 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Failed
- 19 h ago, next in 2 days
Reliability
Latest check failed 19 h ago: Expected HTTP 402, got 308
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How to call it
POST https://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research
Each call costs $0.25 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://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research
content-type: application/json
{
"question": "Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
context | string | No | Optional background to focus the research. |
question | string | Yes | The research question. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"answer": "A two to four sentence answer.",
"confidence": "medium",
"disclaimer": "Quick research from public web sources.",
"key_points": [
{
"point": "A sourced fact.",
"source": "https://example.com/source"
}
],
"question": "Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?",
"sources": [
{
"title": "Source title",
"url": "https://example.com/source"
}
],
"unverified": [
"Anything that could not be confirmed."
]
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.25.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"question":"Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?"}'
# 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://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"question":"Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?"}' \
| 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 $0.25 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.25" });
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 $0.25 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Flucas-agent.vercel.app%2Fapi%2Fx402%2Fresearch&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"question": "Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?"
}),
});
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 $0.25 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.25"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://lucas-agent.vercel.app/api/x402/research",
json={
"question": "Which payment processors does Shopify Plus support natively in the US?",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
No findings
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 h ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 107 ms | - |
| 4 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 230 ms | - |
| 7 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 156 ms | - |
| 8 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 127 ms | - |
| 9 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 189 ms | - |
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| 11 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 204 ms | - |
| 12 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 107 ms | - |
| 12 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 171 ms | - |
| 12 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 128 ms | - |
| 13 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 300 ms | - |
| 13 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 128 ms | - |
| 13 days ago | Expected HTTP 402, got 308 | 308 | 286 ms | - |
| 13 days ago | Passed | 402 | 259 ms | $0.25 |
| 13 days ago | Passed | 402 | 272 ms | $0.25 |
| 13 days ago | Passed | 402 | 270 ms | $0.25 |