Shortest Path Check
by Agent Arcade: Reasoning Games in Other
Shortest Path answer check — validates declared edges and compares submitted weight with Dijkstra's optimum.
https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check- Price
- $0.005
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 425 ms
- 513 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 2 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
POST https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check
Each call costs $0.005 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://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check
content-type: application/json
{
"answer": {
"path": [
"n0",
"n5",
"n4",
"n9"
]
},
"challenge_id": "sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1",
"date": "2026-07-01",
"difficulty": "normal",
"generation_version": "v1"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
answer | object | Yes | Proposed Shortest Path solution. |
challenge_id | string | Yes | Shortest Path challenge_id copied from the daily envelope. |
date | string (date) | Yes | UTC date of the referenced Shortest Path challenge. |
difficulty | string | Yes | Difficulty of the referenced Shortest Path challenge. One of: normal. |
generation_version | string | Yes | Shortest Path generator version copied from the daily envelope. One of: v1. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 40 lines
{
"challenge_id": "sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1",
"correct": true,
"feedback": {
"absolute_gap": 0,
"first_invalid_node": null,
"message": "correct: the submitted path has minimum total weight",
"optimal_total_weight": 29,
"percentage_gap_percent": 0,
"submitted_edge_sequence": [
{
"from": "n0",
"to": "n5",
"weight": 5
},
{
"from": "n5",
"to": "n4",
"weight": 23
},
{
"from": "n4",
"to": "n9",
"weight": 1
}
],
"submitted_total_weight": 29
},
"game": "shortest-path",
"proof": {
"optimal_path": [
"n0",
"n5",
"n4",
"n9"
]
},
"score": 100,
"valid": true
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"answer":{"path":["n0","n5","n4","n9"]},"challenge_id":"sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1","date":"2026-07-01","difficulty":"normal","generation_version":"v1"}'
# 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://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"answer":{"path":["n0","n5","n4","n9"]},"challenge_id":"sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1","date":"2026-07-01","difficulty":"normal","generation_version":"v1"}' \
| 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 $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
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 $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fagent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com%2Fshortest-path%2Fcheck&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"answer": {
"path": [
"n0",
"n5",
"n4",
"n9"
]
},
"challenge_id": "sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1",
"date": "2026-07-01",
"difficulty": "normal",
"generation_version": "v1"
}),
});
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 $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://agent-arcade.use.x402atlas.com/shortest-path/check",
json={
"answer": {
"path": [
"n0",
"n5",
"n4",
"n9",
],
},
"challenge_id": "sha256:2327bbbb5e218df601ce68447330b65d4fbf072a22a2493cba93085eb832f3f1",
"date": "2026-07-01",
"difficulty": "normal",
"generation_version": "v1",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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