Agent Commerce Gateway

What it is, in ten seconds

You already have an HTTP API. AI agents want to discover it, call it and pay for it - over protocols you did not write and do not want to maintain.

Agent Commerce Gateway sits in front of your existing API, in your infrastructure, and does that for you. You describe an endpoint in a YAML file - or generate that description from an OpenAPI document you already have - and agents get an MCP tool and an x402 paywall. The money goes straight to your wallet - the gateway never holds it, and never holds your keys.

Your existing API → Agent Commerce Gateway → AI Agent
                MCP · x402 · receipts · doctor

Related MCP server: opendexter

Demo

[agent] Discovering resources over MCP...
[agent] Found: market_report - Premium Market Report (0.01 USDC)
[agent] Requesting resource...

[gateway] Payment required: 0.01 USDC → 0x7099…79C8
[buyer] Signing x402 authorisation...
[gateway] Payment verified
[gateway] Payment settled tx 0x4f2c…9ab1
[gateway] Calling merchant backend...
[gateway] Resource delivered

[receipt] payment: settled
[receipt] amount: 0.01 USDC
[receipt] merchant: 0x7099…79C8
[receipt] buyer balance 100.00 → 99.99 mUSDC
[receipt] merchant balance 0.00 → 0.01 mUSDC

The dashboard at http://localhost:5173 shows the same request as it happens. It polls the authenticated events route on a short interval rather than streaming: a browser EventSource cannot send the admin token, and the operator routes are closed without one - so the SSE endpoint is reachable by a header-capable client, never by a browser. Polling is the dashboard's intended path, not a degraded mode.

Install

npx @devlab.group/agent-commerce --help # no install needed
npm install -g @devlab.group/agent-commerce # or install the `agent-commerce` binary
agent-commerce doctor

Requires Node >= 22. One package ships two things: the agent-commerce CLI (init, validate, doctor, demo) and a library for embedding the gateway in your own process. A default install is ~65 MB and pulls no blockchain or wallet dependencies at all - ~17 MB of that is the OpenAPI parser behind import openapi, which is a normal dependency because onboarding an existing API is the CLI's main job.

import { createGateway, loadConfig, receipts } from '@devlab.group/agent-commerce';

const config = await loadConfig({ path: 'config.yaml' });
const gateway = await createGateway({
  config,
  store: receipts({ path: './receipts.sqlite' }),
  paymentProviders: [],
  protocolAdapters: [],
});
const { url } = await gateway.listen();

Optional peers - install only the rails you use

The MCP adapter and the x402 provider live on their own subpaths, because each needs a dependency the rest of the package does not - the x402 rail brings the whole EVM signing and RPC stack, which a gateway serving a free HTTP resource has no business installing.

npm install @devlab.group/agent-commerce @modelcontextprotocol/sdk @x402/core @x402/evm viem

import { mcp } from '@devlab.group/agent-commerce/mcp';
import { x402 } from '@devlab.group/agent-commerce/x402';

Peers are pinned exactly: x402's schemas and EIP-712 domains cross this boundary, so a version skew is a correctness problem rather than a convenience one. Import a subpath without its peer installed and Node fails at load naming the missing package - deliberately, rather than starting a gateway that silently serves nothing.

@coinbase/x402 is the odd one out: it has no import of its own and is loaded dynamically, only when facilitator.auth.type: cdp is configured. It is worth avoiding if you can - it brings @coinbase/cdp-sdk and axios, which carry high-severity advisories, while the package itself and the other three peers audit clean. auth.type: bearer covers any facilitator with a static token and installs nothing.

Quickstart

Requirements: Node >= 22, npm 10, Docker. Nothing else - no API keys, no real money, no manual blockchain setup.

git clone <repo> && cd agent-commerce
npm install
docker compose up

Then, in a second terminal:

npm run agent-commerce -- doctor --config config-demo.yaml # verify the whole stack
npm run demo:agent # watch an agent buy something

Linux only, and only if your user is not UID/GID 1000 (check with id -u && id -g): export DOCKER_UID=$(id -u) DOCKER_GID=$(id -g) before docker compose up. The chain-deploy step runs as that user so the deployment manifest it writes stays host-writable rather than root-owned. Docker Desktop on macOS and Windows translates permissions through its VM and does not need this.

That is the whole thing. The stack is a private Anvil chain, a mock USDC token, a demo merchant API, the gateway and a dashboard - all local and disposable.

To stop and wipe state: docker compose down -v.

How it works

        ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
        │ AI Agent │
        └──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┘
                       │ MCP · HTTP + PAYMENT-SIGNATURE
        ┌──────────────▼───────────────────────────────────────┐
        │ Agent Commerce Gateway (yours) │
        │ │
        │ protocol adapters → ExecutionPipeline → … │
        │ │ │
        │ ┌─────────────────────┼──────────────┐ │
        │ ▼ ▼ ▼ │
        │ PaymentProvider BackendExecutor ReceiptStore │
        │ (x402) (bounded HTTP) (SQLite) │
        └────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
                 │ │
        buyer → merchant ┌──────▼───────────────┐
        (never through us) │ Your backend API │
                                └───────────────────────┘

Every protocol adapter converges on one execution pipeline. That is what makes payment enforcement a property of the system rather than something each adapter has to remember. Full detail in docs/architecture.md.

Configure a resource

resources:
  market_report:
    name: Premium Market Report
    backend:
      type: http
      method: GET
      url: ${MERCHANT_API_BASE_URL}/api/report
      timeoutMs: 10000
    pricing:
      type: fixed
      amount: "0.01"
      currency: USDC
    expose: [http, mcp]
    payments: [x402]

That is the integration. No SDK in your backend, no rewrite.

npm run agent-commerce -- init # generate a config interactively
npm run agent-commerce -- validate # fails loudly, exits non-zero

Already have an OpenAPI description? Generate the resources from it (experimental):

agent-commerce import openapi ./openapi.yaml

It writes a reviewable resources: fragment - path, query and JSON body mapped, schemas converted to what the gateway actually enforces - and deliberately leaves pricing and expose out, because an OpenAPI document has no opinion on what an operation costs or who may see it. Credentials are never imported. See docs/openapi-import.md for the exact supported subset.

See docs/configuration.md.

Protocol support

"Planned" means no code ships for it. "Experimental" means the code ships, is tested against the official SDK, and serves a narrow named subset - A2A is off by default and documented in full at docs/protocols.md. Each adapter reports its own supportedSpec, capabilities and unsupported list at runtime via GET /.well-known/agent-commerce and agent-commerce doctor - so the claim is checkable, not marketing. Detail: docs/protocols.md.

Payment model

• Non-custodial. The gateway never holds funds, and never asks for a merchant or buyer private key. payTo is your address.

• Fail closed. Missing, malformed, expired, replayed, wrong-amount, wrong-recipient, wrong-network and wrong-asset payments all fail - each with a test.

• Replay-safe twice over. EIP-3009 stops a double spend on-chain; the gateway additionally reserves a replayKey derived from the authorisation before it settles anything.

• Real settlement in CI. The end-to-end test asserts the buyer's balance falls and the merchant's rises by exactly the price, with a real transaction hash in the receipt. A log line saying "payment successful" would not count.

Detail: docs/payment-flow.md.

Public networks

Same gateway, same pipeline - a different network and a facilitator that is not this process. No code changes, and no "live mode" to switch on.

It has actually settled

Not a roadmap entry. Both of these moved 0.01 USDC from a buyer to a merchant through a remote facilitator:

In both, the gateway held no key, signed nothing and paid no gas - the buyer signed an EIP-3009 authorisation offline holding no ETH, and the facilitator broadcast it. Each run reads the buyer and merchant balances and the transaction receipt back off the chain afterwards; the gateway's own report of success is not the proof.

Reproduce with npm run test:testnet / npm run test:mainnet - both spend real funds, skip themselves without credentials, and never run in CI.

The facilitator model

A facilitator verifies the buyer's authorisation and broadcasts the transfer. It is the only component that needs gas, and it is never this gateway on a public network.

With remote, the gateway holds no signing key at all. The buyer signs an EIP-3009 authorisation offline - no ETH required - and the facilitator pays the gas. A facilitator cannot redirect your money: the authorisation names its recipient, amount and chain, so it can broadcast exactly that transfer or nothing. What it can do is see every authorisation you handle, and stop answering.

Three auth types: none, bearer (a static token, installs nothing) and cdp (Coinbase Developer Platform, which signs a fresh JWT per request). Anything else is refused at config load rather than sent nothing. You can also run your own - remote does not care who operates the endpoint.

Base Sepolia

payments:
  x402:
    enabled: true
    network: eip155:84532
    rpcUrl: https://base-sepolia-rpc.publicnode.com # health checks only
    asset: "0x036CbD53842c5426634e7929541eC2318f3dCF7e" # Circle USDC
    assetName: USDC
    assetVersion: "2"
    assetDecimals: 6
    payTo: ${MERCHANT_WALLET}
    maxTimeoutSeconds: 300
    facilitator:
      mode: remote
      url: https://x402.org/facilitator
      auth: { type: none }

Full config in examples/base-sepolia/. Test USDC from faucet.circle.com; the buyer needs no ETH. npm run test:testnet drives the whole flow and reads the result back off the chain.

Chain id 84532 belongs to both Base Sepolia and this project's local dev chain, deliberately. Nothing infers "public network" from it - local, testnet and mainnet are derived from the network and the facilitator together, and reported by doctor, health() and /.well-known.

Base mainnet

Real funds, so nothing is defaulted. Every one of these is checked at config load, and the gateway will not start without them:

Full config in examples/base-mainnet/, and examples/base-mainnet-payai/ for an unauthenticated facilitator. npm run test:mainnet proves it end to end and spends real USDC on every run.

agent-commerce validate reports any of the above before anything starts, and doctor prints LIVE MAINNET MODE - REAL FUNDS.

Neither public-network suite runs in CI - there is no workflow and there must not be one. A workflow means a funded key in repository secrets, spendable by anyone with write access. Both suites run from the machine that holds the wallet, and skip themselves without credentials.

Diagnostics

$ npm run agent-commerce -- doctor --config config-demo.yaml

PASS  Config               valid - 2 resource(s), merchant "Demo Data Store" (using local chain manifest .deploy/local.json for X402_ASSET, X402_ASSET_NAME, X402_ASSET_VERSION, X402_ASSET_DECIMALS, MERCHANT_WALLET, X402_FACILITATOR_PRIVATE_KEY)
PASS  Gateway              healthy and ready at http://127.0.0.1:8080
PASS  Backend              2/2 backend host(s) reachable
PASS  Protocols            http=on mcp=on (/mcp) a2a=off
INFO  A2A                  disabled
PASS  Payments             x402 v2 (scheme=exact) enabled - LOCAL dev chain (eip155:84532, chain id shared with Base Sepolia), destination=0x7099…79C8, facilitator=local
INFO  Payments (MPP)       planned - not implemented in this release
PASS  Storage              sqlite schema v1 writable; receipts=2
PASS  Protocol versions    reported by gateway /.well-known/agent-commerce

Score: 7/7 checks passed

That is real output, not an illustration. doctor also cross-checks the gateway's live settlement configuration against what your local config resolves to, and fails if they disagree - a diagnostic that passes while the system is misconfigured is worse than none.

Exits non-zero if anything fails. --json for machines.

Exposure and access

The demo binds everything to 127.0.0.1. Before putting the gateway anywhere reachable by anyone else, know the split:

• Agent routes (/api/resources/:id/invoke, /mcp) are unauthenticated by design - paid resources are protected by payment, not by a password.

• Operator routes (/api/receipts, /api/events, /api/events/stream) are the merchant's commerce ledger: payer addresses, amounts, settlement hashes. They require server.adminToken, and return 404 if none is configured.

• Browsers are governed by server.allowedOrigins, an explicit allowlist that defaults to empty.

• There is no rate limiting. A free resource is an unauthenticated proxy to your backend at whatever rate a caller chooses. Quotas and abuse controls belong in your API or your edge.

SECURITY.md states plainly what this does and does not protect.

Development

npm run verify # contract + lint + typecheck + test
npm run test:e2e # deterministic end-to-end, boots its own chain

Foundry (anvil, forge, cast) is needed for the chain work. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Roadmap

Now (v1.2.0) - MCP, x402 v2, settlement on the local chain, Base Sepolia and Base mainnet, receipts, doctor, deterministic demo, an experimental A2A v1.0.0 adapter, and experimental OpenAPI import.

Next - a stronger conformance suite · a doctor GitHub Action · UCP · MPP · ACP · AP2 · Shopify and WooCommerce examples · PostgreSQL · richer observability · multi-file and remote OpenAPI sources.

New protocols land only after the adapter model survives real use. Scope discipline is a release requirement, not a mood.

Documentation

Licence

Apache-2.0.