Autonomous Agent Payments:
The Missing Piece

The Problem

Your AI agent is running autonomously. It needs weather data for a task. It calls an API and gets:

HTTP 402 Payment Required
{
  "error": "Payment Required",
  "price": "0.002",
  "currency": "USDC"
}

Now what? The agent can't enter a credit card. It can't ask you for permission mid-task. Traditional payment rails completely break down for autonomous systems.

The Solution: nory-x402-payer

We built the first payer-side SDK for x402. It lets AI agents automatically handle payment requirements:

import { NoryPayer } from 'nory-x402-payer';

const payer = new NoryPayer({
  privateKey: process.env.AGENT_WALLET_KEY,
  maxPaymentUsd: 1.00,  // Safety limit
});

// This just works - even if the API requires payment
const result = await payer.fetch(
  'https://noryx402.com/api/paid/weather?city=London'
);

console.log(result.data);     // Weather data
console.log(result.payment);  // { success: true, txId: '...' }
console.log(result.retried);  // true

How It Works

Safety Features

• •Max payment limit: Set maxPaymentUsd to cap spending per request
• •Balance checks: Verifies USDC balance before attempting payment
• •Auto-pay toggle: Disable with autoPay: false for manual control
• •Network validation: Only pays on configured network