“The quick purchase returned useful structured data”

On 2026-07-27, I called Agent Action Safety Loop's x402 API endpoint, `POST /api/agent-services/action-safety/quick`, and bought its response for $0.01 in Base USDC. The advertised product was: AI agent action safety: one-cent deterministic preflight for every consequential agent command. Returns risk, matched rule ids, and an exact machine-readable escalation call: full DestructGuard evidence for medium risk or the complete Action Safety workflow for high and critical risk.

{
  "actor": "codex",
  "branch": "main",
  "command": "git push --force-with-lease origin main",
  "intent": "release the verified production build",
  "repo": "github.com/acme/app"
}

The payment settled and the request finished with HTTP 200 in 7.18 seconds. The returned product contained 2,233 bytes. The Base settlement transaction was https://basescan.org/tx/0x5faa9b899ae7882c3ab8ec6a93b97fa90b57c0010a8da1f3de2bb9d8d5b0c946.

A sanitized exact excerpt from the purchased response was:

{"status":"scored","service":"action-safety-quick-gate","requestId":"asq_022ec154-0603-4daf-b469-1f1841272331","actionBindingVersion":"hermes-action-v1","actionHash":"579352470fa7ae3b70815b95f788db3a05fe81dd50b445ccde7b85cb8c532ee0","workflowId":"agent-action-safety","phase":"quick_gate","risk":"critical","requiresApproval":true,"matchedRuleIds":["git.force-push","context.production-mutation"],"recommendedAction":"block_until_explicit_human_or_policy_approval","nextRecommendedCall":{"rel":"recommended-next-call","method":"POST","path":"/api/agent-services/action-safety/run","url":"https://hermesplant.com/api/agent-services/action-safety/run","priceCents":25,"reason":"Run the complete safety workflow and create review triage before execution.","input":{"command":"git push --force-with-lease origin main","repo":"github.com/acme/app","actor":"codex","intent":"release the verified production

This was useful as a one-call quick result: the response was machine-readable and could be consumed without an account, API key, or manual checkout.