
AVEL
io.github.Ensi81Published by GitHub account Ensi81v0.1.2Updated Oct 24, 2026
Identity/reputation verification for agent-to-agent payments across x402, AP2, MPP, checkout.
Overview
Lets an assistant check the identity and reputation of payer and payee agents before an agent-to-agent payment, without moving the money itself.
- What you can do
- The client exposes verify, issue_challenge, verify_challenge and get_verdict against an AVEL instance. verify signs an EIP-191 message over the canonical transaction and returns a verdict of APPROVED, DENIED, or withheld until the commission is paid; issue_challenge lets a seller sign binding terms and verify_challenge lets a buyer accept them in one call. get_verdict lets either side read the outcome of a specific transaction, while aggregate reputation is a public unauthenticated HTTP endpoint.
- When to use it
- Use it when an agent is about to pay or be paid by another agent and you want an identity and reputation check first, including x402, AP2, MPP or checkout flows where an existing payment proof can be reused. It is not a payment rail: it only reports whether it is safe to proceed. It is not useful if you need the service to hold or move funds, since the vault methods are disabled.
- Requirements
- Runs locally as a stdio process, launched with uvx from the PyPI package agent-interchange. Needs network access to a reachable AVEL instance, set by AVEL_BASE_URL (default and the secret AVEL_PRIVATE_KEY, the EVM private key of the agent identity. No registration is required. Desktop only; no web executable.
Installation
In SourceWeft
- Open AVEL in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
- Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.
Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.
Other MCP clients
Follow the launch instructions in the repository.
README
agent-interchange
SDK Python per AVEL (Agent Verification Layer) — verifica
identità/reputazione di chi paga e chi riceve, su qualunque metodo di
pagamento, senza mai custodire denaro. Il server è closed-source; questo
pacchetto è lo strato client, pensato per essere pubblico e riusabile
(licenza MIT). Standalone — nessuna dipendenza dal codice del server,
solo httpx, eth-account e l'URL di un'istanza raggiungibile
(https://aisrail.fly.dev).
Install
Uso
Il pagamento fra i due agenti non passa da qui. Questa chiamata dice soltanto se è sicuro procedere; poi l'agente paga sul rail che già usa. Noi incassiamo solo la provvigione per il controllo eseguito (1% dell'importo verificato, minimo 0,50 su carta) — dovuta anche su un verdetto DENIED, se la firma di chi chiama è comunque valida: è il prezzo del controllo, non dell'esito.
Tre esiti possibili:
private_key è la chiave EVM dell'agente (mai la nostra). Il primo uso
autenticato lega quell'identità all'indirizzo che firma
(trust-on-first-use): ogni chiamata successiva deve firmare con la
STESSA chiave. Nessuna registrazione preventiva.
verify() usa protocol="native". Se l'agente sta già pagando con
x402, AP2 o MPP non serve una seconda firma: si manda la prova che ha
già prodotto per il pagamento — un esempio per ciascun protocollo è in
scripts/protocol_adapters_demo.py.
Verifica simmetrica di B
Se il venditore (B) dichiara un indirizzo (payee_address), deve anche
provare di controllarlo — altrimenti il verdetto è negato. La firma va
calcolata da B (o da chi negozia per suo conto) su
build_counterparty_message(payer_address, payee_id, amount, currency, nonce) e passata come payee_signature:
Modello B-driven (protocollo challenge)
Più vicino a come funzionano davvero x402/MPP: è il venditore (B) a fissare prezzo e termini e a firmarli per primo, l'acquirente (A) li accetta firmando lo stesso testo.
Il challenge è valido una sola volta per la transazione esatta che lo accetta: un ritentativo identico (necessario per completare il pagamento della commissione dopo un 402) resta ammesso, un riuso con termini diversi no.
Verdetto bidirezionale
Entrambe le parti possono leggere l'esito di una transazione specifica
— non solo chi ha chiamato verify()/verify_challenge():
Richiede una firma che provi di essere il pagante o il ricevente di
quella transazione — a differenza dello storico aggregato
(GET /ais/reputation/{address}, pubblico), il dettaglio di una singola
transazione non lo è.
Caso marketplace
Quando payee_id/payee_address sono una vetrina e non chi fornisce
davvero il prodotto/servizio, verify() accetta anche
sub_merchant_address/sub_merchant_signature (stesso principio di B:
la firma va calcolata su build_sub_merchant_message(payer_address, payee_id, amount, currency, nonce, sub_merchant_address)). Se
dichiarato, la sua reputazione (sub_merchant_reputation nella
risposta) entra nel verdetto tanto quanto quella di B.
Vedi example.py per una versione eseguibile del flusso base.
Metodi degli Agent Vaults — SPENTI
pay(), get_balance(), deposit() e withdraw() appartengono al
modello precedente, in cui il servizio custodiva un saldo interno. Il
server risponde ora 410 a quegli endpoint: non custodiamo più
denaro, nemmeno per un istante. Il codice resta ed è riattivabile lato
server con AGENT_VAULTS_ENABLED=true; la documentazione qui sotto è
conservata come riferimento storico.
InterchangeClient
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verify(payer_address, payee_id, amount, currency, private_key, nonce="", payee_address=None, payee_signature=None, sub_merchant_address=None, sub_merchant_signature=None, fee_payment_method_id=None)→dict. Il metodo da usare per il modello "A dichiara, B conferma". Firma EIP-191 sul testo canonico della transazione, chiede il verdetto e paga la provvigione. Un402non è un errore ma una risposta prevista ("verifica passata, ora paga"): viene restituito, non sollevato. -
issue_challenge(payee_address, payee_id, amount, currency, private_key, ttl_seconds=600)→dict. Lato B (venditore), modello B-driven: emette e firma un challenge vincolante, nessuna chiamata di rete. Il risultato va consegnato ad A fuori banda. -
verify_challenge(challenge, payer_address, private_key, fee_payment_method_id=None, fee_method=None)→dict. Lato A (acquirente): accetta il challenge diissue_challenge()e chiede il verdetto in un'unica chiamata. -
get_verdict(payee_address, nonce, address, private_key)→dict. Verdetto bidirezionale: legge l'esito di una transazione specifica, utilizzabile da entrambe le parti coinvolte. SollevaInterchangeAPIError(403) seaddressnon è né il pagante né il ricevente di quella transazione, (404) se non esiste alcun verdetto registrato per quelpayee_address/nonce. -
get_agent_reputationnon è un metodo del client — è pubblico e senza autenticazione:GET {base_url}/ais/reputation/{address}con una semplice richiesta HTTP. -
(spento, 410) →pay(payer_ref, payee_ref, amount, private_key, currency="USDC", task_id=None)PaymentResult.private_keysigns an EIP-191 message binding this exact transaction (trust-on-first-use — see Usage above); mandatory since the Interchange added wallet authentication to/pay. Auto-derivesagent_request_idfromtask_id+ the call's own parameters (seeclient._derive_request_id) — pass your agent framework's own task/run id so a genuine retry (same task_id, same arguments) is safely idempotent, while a different payment under the same task_id never false-collides with it. Omittingtask_idstill works but loses the retry-safety property (a fresh random id is used, so a real retry would be treated as a brand new transaction).Raises:
InsufficientBalanceError— payer's balance can't cover amount + fee.RequestConflictError— HTTP 409: the derived id was already used for different content (a possible replay/hijack of a captured payment proof by untrusted middleware — rejected, not executed) or was reserved but never completed (never retried automatically).InterchangeAPIError— any other non-2xx response, or the Interchange being unreachable. 401 meansprivate_keydoesn't match the signature; 403 meanspayer_refis already bound to a different address (not this key).
A risk-score
DENY(as opposed to an insufficient-balance one) is not raised — it comes back as a normalPaymentResultwith.success == False; check.decision/.reasonsfor why. -
get_balance(agent_ref, private_key)→dict[str, int], atomic units per currency, e.g.{"USDC": 500000}.private_keyproves control ofagent_ref(same trust-on-first-use binding aspay()); allowed with any key only ifagent_refwas never used inpay()/withdraw()yet. -
withdraw(agent_ref, amount_usdc, payout_address, private_key, task_id=None)→dict.private_keyisagent_ref's own key, proving it controls the balance being withdrawn — the Interchange's own treasury still signs and pays out on-chain,private_keyhere only authenticates the withdrawal request itself. Sametask_idderivation and exception contract aspay()(InsufficientBalanceErroron HTTP 402,RequestConflictErroron 409, 401/403 same meaning aspay()'s); any other non-2xx (e.g. 403 for an unwhitelisted platform-treasury withdrawal) raisesInterchangeAPIError. -
await deposit(agent_ref, amount_usdc, private_key, task_id=None)→dict. Async (unlike the other three methods) and needs thedepositextra —pip install agent-interchange[deposit]— because it signs a real x402 payment with the depositing agent's own key. Calling it without the extra installed raisesInterchangeAPIError(not an ImportError) with instructions. Base install (pip install -e .) never needsx402/eth-accountunless you call this.
Verified live against a running Interchange (04 Sep 2026): a normal
payment (fee correctly deducted from amount, not added on top);
InsufficientBalanceError on an oversized pay()/withdraw(); an
idempotent retry (same task_id + same arguments) returning the
identical cached result with no second transfer/payout; the same
task_id with different arguments executing as a distinct payment (no
false conflict); a forged same-id-different-content request correctly
rejected with RequestConflictError, simulating the replay/hijack
scenario the Interchange's own P1 binding defends against
(interchange/security.py in the main repo); a real on-chain
withdraw() and deposit(), each with the resulting transaction
confirmed on Base Sepolia; and deposit()'s clean-failure message when
the deposit extra isn't installed (simulated by blocking the imports).
InterchangeTool — LangChain / CrewAI / AutoGen
Only wraps pay/get_balance as agent-callable tools — deliberately
not deposit/withdraw: those move real funds and deposit needs a
raw private key, both a heavier judgment call than exposing to an LLM's
tool-calling loop by default. Call them directly on client from your
own code instead.
Lazy imports: constructing InterchangeTool and calling pay()/
get_balance() on it directly never requires any of the three
frameworks — only for_langchain()/for_crewai()/for_autogen() do,
and each fails cleanly (ModuleNotFoundError) if its package isn't
installed. Verified live (construction, underlying _get_balance call,
and the clean-failure path for all three factories); the tool-decorated
output itself carries the same verification level as the main repo's
framework_tools.py — see that file's docstring for how the underlying
@tool/FunctionTool API shape was confirmed against each framework's
real published source.
Not included here
The main repo's agent_tools.py / framework_tools.py (repo root)
cover the same ground but aren't packaged/independently installable —
prefer this SDK for anything outside the main repo's own dev environment.
Source: README.md at commit a2f7c1c
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