Web Guard

{
  "mode": "web-guard",
  "paid_sats": 20,
  "payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
  "receipt": {
    "payload": {
      "at": "<ISO 8601 time>",
      "kid": "<signing key id>",
      "mode": "web-guard",
      "payment_hash": "x402:<sha256 hex>",
      "v": 1,
      "verdict_sha256": "<sha256 hex of the verdict>"
    },
    "signature": "<base64url Ed25519 signature>"
  },
  "verdict": {
    "decision": "allow",
    "hidden_found": [
      {
        "text": "last updated 2026-01-10",
        "where": "html_comment"
      }
    ],
    "reasons": [],
    "rule": "block if hidden text aimed at an AI >= 0.6, invisible Unicode instructions, hidden data-sending request >= 0.7 or visible text >= 0.8 ; review if a hint >= 0.3 to 0.4 or zero-width characters ; otherwise allow",
    "scores": {
      "hidden_addresses_ai": 0.02,
      "hidden_exfiltration": 0.01,
      "visible_injection": 0.01
    },
    "visible_chars": 48
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/web-guard' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"html":"<html><body><h1>Gardening tips<\/h1><p>Water your plants in the morning.<\/p><!-- last updated 2026-01-10 --><\/body><\/html>"}'

# 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/web-guard' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"html":"<html><body><h1>Gardening tips<\/h1><p>Water your plants in the morning.<\/p><!-- last updated 2026-01-10 --><\/body><\/html>"}' \
  | 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 $0.0212 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0212" });
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 $0.0212 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fverdict.kechlab.com%2Fv1%2Fweb-guard&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://verdict.kechlab.com/v1/web-guard", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "html": "<html><body><h1>Gardening tips<\/h1><p>Water your plants in the morning.<\/p><!-- last updated 2026-01-10 --><\/body><\/html>"
  }),
});
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 $0.0212 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0212"})
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/web-guard",
        json={
            "html": "<html><body><h1>Gardening tips</h1><p>Water your plants in the morning.</p><!-- last updated 2026-01-10 --></body></html>",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)