x402 Agent API Skill

Use this skill to let your AI agent call paid endpoints on https://www.x402api.app/ with x402.

Quick start for AI agents

1. Place this file in your OpenClaw, Codex, or Claude project root.
2. Tell your AI agent: "Help me convert this text into a QR code." or "Help me upload this image and return an online URL."
3. The agent should follow x402 payment flow automatically.

Install dependencies

npm install @x402/core @x402/evm viem

Required environment variables

EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0x_your_private_key
API_BASE_URL=https://www.x402api.app/

Currently available features

1. QR code generation
2. Image hosting

Available endpoints

Live

• GET /api/health - health check
• GET /api/v1/capabilities - capability discovery
• POST /api/v1/qrcode/generate - generate QR code image (x402 protected)
• POST /api/v1/image/upload - upload image and return public URL (x402 protected, max 10MB)

Planned

• POST /api/v1/image/colorize
• POST /api/v1/image/super-resolution
• POST /api/v1/image/enhance
• POST /api/v1/image/smart-redact
• POST /api/v1/image/smart-crop
• POST /api/v1/image/inpaint
• POST /api/v1/image/qrcode/decode
• POST /api/v1/image/tags
• POST /api/v1/image/game-scene-detect
• POST /api/v1/image/quality-score
• POST /api/v1/vision/face-detect
• POST /api/v1/vision/human-detect
• POST /api/v1/vision/pet-detect
• POST /api/v1/vision/plate-detect
• POST /api/v1/image/ocr
• POST /api/v1/image/idcard-ocr
• POST /api/v1/image/background-remove
• POST /api/v1/video/object-detection
• POST /api/v1/video/portrait-segmentation

How to call each live endpoint

1) QR code generation

Endpoint: POST /api/v1/qrcode/generate

JSON body:

{
  "text": "https://example.com",
  "size": 512,
  "ecc": "M",
  "format": "png",
  "margin": 2
}

• text is required (1-2048 chars).
• format is currently png only.
• size range: 128-2048.
• margin range: 0-16.
• ecc supports: L | M | Q | H.
• Success response contains result.image_base64 and result.mime_type.

2) Image hosting

Endpoint: POST /api/v1/image/upload

Request type: multipart/form-data

• Use one form-data field named file.
• File type must be image/*.
• File size must be <= 10MB.

Success response contains result.image_url.

Payment flow

1. Call protected endpoint and expect 402 Payment Required.
2. Parse payment requirements from response headers.
3. Sign payment and retry with x402 payment header.
4. Read business result (result.image_url for upload).

Example client flow

This example follows the same pattern as scripts/buyer-quickstart-test.ts.

import { x402Client, x402HTTPClient } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme, toClientEvmSigner } from "@x402/evm";
import { createPublicClient, http } from "viem";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
import { base } from "viem/chains";

const baseUrl =
  process.env.X402_API_BASE_URL ??
  process.env.API_BASE_URL ??
  "https://www.x402api.app/";
const endpoint = `${baseUrl.replace(/\/$/, "")}/api/v1/qrcode/generate`;

async function main() {
  const privateKey = process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY;
  if (!privateKey) throw new Error("Missing EVM_PRIVATE_KEY");
  if (!privateKey.startsWith("0x")) throw new Error("EVM_PRIVATE_KEY must start with 0x");

  const account = privateKeyToAccount(privateKey as `0x${string}`);
  const publicClient = createPublicClient({ chain: base, transport: http() });
  const signer = toClientEvmSigner(account, publicClient);
  const client = new x402Client().register("eip155:*", new ExactEvmScheme(signer));
  const httpClient = new x402HTTPClient(client);

  const payload = { text: "https://example.com", size: 512, ecc: "M" };

  const unpaid = await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
  });

  if (unpaid.status !== 402) {
    const unpaidBody = await unpaid.text();
    throw new Error(`Expected unpaid status 402, got ${unpaid.status}. body=${unpaidBody}`);
  }

  const paymentRequired = httpClient.getPaymentRequiredResponse(
    (name) => unpaid.headers.get(name),
    {},
  );

  const paymentPayload = await httpClient.createPaymentPayload(paymentRequired);
  const response = await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      "content-type": "application/json",
      ...httpClient.encodePaymentSignatureHeader(paymentPayload),
    },
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
  });

  const body = await response.json();
  if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed with status ${response.status}: ${JSON.stringify(body)}`);

  console.log(body);
}

void main().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
  process.exit(1);
});

Error handling

• 402 Payment Required: build payment payload, sign, and retry.
• 500 Internal Server Error: retry with backoff and log request context.

Endpoint-specific error codes

POST /api/v1/image/upload

• image_file_required (400): file field is missing.
• image_file_empty (400): uploaded file is empty.
• image_file_too_large (413): image is larger than 10MB.
• image_mime_not_supported (400): only image/* is supported.
• invalid_image_request (400): other validation errors.

POST /api/v1/qrcode/generate

• invalid_json_body (400): request body is not valid JSON.
• invalid_request_body (400): body is not a JSON object.
• qrcode_content_required (400): text is missing or empty.
• qrcode_content_too_long (400): text exceeds 2048 characters.
• qrcode_format_not_supported (400): only png format is supported.
• invalid_qrcode_request (400): other validation errors.