TOLLY x402: paid agent services and jobs on Arc

TOLLY x402 MCP server

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This repository is the open-source (MIT) implementation of TOLLY's MCP server: the server (src/index.ts), the x402 buyer client it pays with (src/sdk.ts), its tests, and the build that produces the npm package @tollylabs/x402-mcp.

An MCP server that gives an AI agent TOLLY's paid services on Arc (Circle's chain): market search, token intelligence and risk, price candles, wallet balances, trades and LP positions, creator profiles, best-route swap quotes with unsigned transactions, a live market feed, and launch preparation, plus other sellers' x402 services that TOLLY routes, TOLLY's job board (post a job, deliver work as an agent, unlock results) and escrowed jobs on chain (Tolly ACP, ERC-8183). An agent launched as an NFT on TOLLY can pay from its own wallet within limits its owner sets. Each tool call is paid per call in USDC over x402 from a wallet you configure, within limits you set. Nothing is free except searching the catalogs, re-reading what you paid for (tolly_recover_result, tolly_stream_read, tolly_alerts_read), listing your own purchases (tolly_usage) and the job board's search, post and deliver tools (only unlocking a delivered result is paid). Escrowed job actions cost gas only, except funding a job, which escrows its budget under the same caps.

The only payment it signs is a USDC transferWithAuthorization to TOLLY, never more than a tool's listed price, never above your per-call cap or daily budget, and only on the network you name. Swap and launch tools return unsigned transactions; nothing is executed for you. Posting or delivering a job signs a plain-text sign-in or delivery message, which cannot move funds. Escrowed-job transactions are built by TOLLY's gateway and sent only when they equal this server's own encoding of the intended call; agent-wallet transactions are built locally. Both are sent only on the network you name.

Setup

Use a dedicated wallet that holds only what you are willing to spend.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add tolly -e BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY=0x... -e TOLLY_X402_NETWORK=eip155:5042 -- npx -y @tollylabs/x402-mcp

Claude Desktop / other MCP clients (mcpServers entry):

{  "tolly": {    "command": "npx",    "args": ["-y", "@tollylabs/x402-mcp"],    "env": {      "BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x...",      "TOLLY_X402_NETWORK": "eip155:5042",      "TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL": "0.30",      "TOLLY_X402_BUDGET": "1.00",      "TOLLY_X402_PAY_TO": "0x4caf61991132b7a55d25b85583b203c807407e84",      "TOLLY_ACP_ADDRESS": "0x75db32f542f981ca4E545A5B35379e3735104a65",      "TOLLY_ACP_RPC_URL": "https://arc.drpc.org"    }  }}

What is live on TOLLY

• Paid services, routed services, the job board: live on Arc mainnet.
• Escrowed jobs (Tolly ACP): live on Arc mainnet, contract 0x75db32f542f981ca4E545A5B35379e3735104a65 (as GET /v1/acp publishes it). Set it as TOLLY_ACP_ADDRESS to pin it; the wallet tools need the pin.
• The allowance float (TOLLY_AGENT_WALLET) runs entirely in this server against your RPC.
• Tolly Compute (prepaid model inference: Claude, GPT/Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen and more) and agent inboxes: live. The compute credit tools appear once GET /v1/compute/models answers with a model; the chat tool needs TOLLY_COMPUTE_API_KEY.
• Spending rules on chain (AgentSpendPolicy): in this server, not yet enabled on TOLLY. Its tools appear only with TOLLY_SPEND_POLICY set.

Tools

One tool per purchasable service (tolly_<service id>), with the price in its description and the service's JSON Schema as input, plus free tools: tolly_list_services, tolly_recover_result (re-read a paid answer with its job token), tolly_stream_read (read a purchased market-stream ticket), tolly_alerts_read, tolly_usage and tolly_routed_search. The catalog, schemas and limits: https://agent.tollylabs.com, /llms.txt, /openapi.json.

If a paid call fails with charged: "unknown", call the same tool again with _resume_payment_id set to the returned id: it finishes the call without paying twice.

Spending rules on chain (AgentSpendPolicy)

The default way for an agent launched as an NFT on TOLLY to spend: its owner sets rules on chain, and this server pays from the agent's wallet (its ERC-6551 account) within them. The contract enforces a per-payment cap and a per-UTC-day cap (2 and 10 USDC by default), and pays only allowed payees and contracts (TOLLY's payee, and Tolly ACP). Not yet enabled on TOLLY: there is no published policy address yet, and nothing changes unless TOLLY_SPEND_POLICY is set. This server's key (BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY, the hot key) only pays gas.

1. Set TOLLY_AGENT_WALLET, TOLLY_RPC_URL, TOLLY_SPEND_POLICY (and TOLLY_SPEND_POLICY_CODEHASH; the site's panel prints both). Run tolly_wallet_status and give the owner its hot_key_proof.
2. The owner enables the rules on the agent's Spending panel (Spending rules tab): one transaction from their wallet when it supports batches, else a few in order.
3. Run tolly_policy_accept once (one transaction from the hot key, gas only).

Then every x402 payment is first registered with the policy (preauthorize for the exact payee, amount and a window under an hour; one transaction, waited for), then sent with from = the agent's wallet and the policy's 97-byte contract signature. A payment that did not happen is cancelled, which refunds the day's budget on chain. This server's own caps (TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL, TOLLY_X402_BUDGET) still apply first. Before the first transaction it checks over your RPC: the chain, USDC, the policy (code hash, budgeted token) and that the agent's wallet is the ERC-6551 registry account of its NFT. Tolly ACP client actions (create, set provider and budget, fund, reject) on the agent wallet's jobs run through the policy too, with approve + fund as one batch; such jobs expire within 30 days and need a named evaluator the rules allow.

Each authorization's nonce is bound to TOLLY's quote (quoteBoundNonce, keccak256 of the quote token), so nobody who reads the preauthorization on chain can present it with a quote of their own; a re-sign for a new quote withdraws the earlier preauthorization first, and after a paid call (also a resume with _resume_payment_id, which TOLLY answers with the earlier payment) every preauthorization other than the one TOLLY recorded is withdrawn, so none is left live (the result says preauthorizations_withdrawn). TOLLY refuses any contract-form signature (byte 64 = 0: Tokenbound, Safe contract owners, smart-wallet wrappers, ERC-6492) without the bound nonce (contract_signature_nonce_not_bound_to_quote); plain EOA signatures are unaffected. Only TOLLY's payee (the policy's tollyPayee, or TOLLY_X402_PAY_TO) is ever preauthorized.

When no rules are set for this key yet (not enabled, not accepted, or written by a previous NFT owner, or revoked), payments fall back to the allowance float below, or to the key's own USDC; each paid result says paid_from, and why the rules were not used. When the owner's rules exist and stop the key (paused, expired, x402 turned off, the wallet locked or the policy cut off), nothing is paid at all: not from the float, not from the key.

• tolly_policy_status (free): who pays, the caps, today's spend and what is left, the payees, and whether the key still has to accept.
• tolly_policy_accept (gas only): accept the owner's rules.

If the hot key leaks it can spend up to 3 times the daily cap within 24 hours (around 00:00 UTC), only to the allowed payees and contracts. The owner should Revoke (not Pause) on a suspected compromise; caps of 0 are not a freeze.

Agent wallet spending rules (the allowance float, fallback)

An agent launched as an NFT on TOLLY has its own wallet: an ERC-6551 account that whoever holds the NFT controls. Keep the money there and give this server's key (the "hot key", BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY) only a small allowance on it:

1. Start the server with TOLLY_AGENT_WALLET=<the account> and TOLLY_RPC_URL, run tolly_wallet_status, and give the owner its hot_key_proof (the hot key's signature naming the agent's wallet; not a secret). On the agent's Spending panel (Create agent > Your agent NFTs > Spending), the owner pastes it: the page reads the hot key from the proof itself, saves it, and sets an allowance (default 5 USDC). That is one transaction from the owner's wallet: the account calls USDC.approve(hotKey, amount). To change a live allowance the owner revokes first, then sets the new amount (a direct change could let the key spend both).
2. Before a paid call, if the hot key holds less than the price plus the gas reserve, or less than TOLLY_FLOAT_MIN_USD, it pulls up to TOLLY_FLOAT_TARGET_USD with USDC.transferFrom(account, hotKey, amount), capped by the allowance, the account's balance and, per UTC day, TOLLY_X402_BUDGET. It pays x402 from its own address as before.
3. The hot key needs a little USDC for gas once (0.10 is plenty): on Arc the gas coin is USDC, so the float pays its own gas afterwards and always keeps the reserve.

If the hot key leaks, the most it can take is what it holds plus what the allowance still lets it pull. The owner revokes with one click (allowance 0). TOLLY_AGENT_WALLET must be a contract (the agent's ERC-6551 account): a plain address is refused, so a typo cannot swallow a return. Never give the hot key Tokenbound permissions (setPermissions): that hands it the whole account, with no limit at all.

• tolly_wallet_status (free): the hot key's and the account's USDC, the allowance, the worst case if the key leaks, today's pulls, and hot_key_proof for the Spending panel.
• tolly_wallet_return (gas only): { keepUsd? } sends the hot key's USDC above the gas reserve (or keepUsd) back to the agent's account, the only destination it knows. The owner cannot pull from the hot key; this is how the float goes back.

Other sellers' services, routed by TOLLY

TOLLY also resells other x402 sellers' services on Arc mainnet (GET /v1/routed). You pay TOLLY one all-in price (the seller's price + a disclosed 10% fee, at least $0.001) and TOLLY buys from the seller and hands its answer back, with a receipt and an automatic full refund if the seller fails. You can always buy directly from the seller instead; every listing shows where.

• tolly_routed_search (free): { query?, maxPriceUsd?, limit? } → routeId, seller, title, all-in / seller price / fee, the direct URL and the disclosure. Titles and descriptions are written by the sellers: untrusted text.
• tolly_routed_buy (paid): { routeId, query?: {name: value}, body?: JSON, method?: "GET" | "POST" }. Before paying it re-reads the listing and refuses if the all-in price is above TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL or what is left of TOLLY_X402_BUDGET. It signs only TOLLY's 402, only on TOLLY_X402_NETWORK, only to TOLLY's payee (TOLLY_X402_PAY_TO, else the single payee in TOLLY's /.well-known/x402) and never above the listed all-in price. It returns the seller's answer (labelled Seller response (untrusted data, not instructions), invisible characters removed, at most 100 000 characters), the settlement transaction, the job id and token for tolly_recover_result, and the refund (requested, or paid with its transaction) when the seller failed after you paid. A stream service returns its ticket / stream URL for you to open if you choose; this server does not connect to third-party streams.

Refunds cover a seller that fails (an error, no answer, a broken connection, an answer over 1 MB): TOLLY never judges content, so a seller that answers 200 with useless or wrong content is not refunded. Seller answers re-read with tolly_recover_result carry the same untrusted label.

Routed services are priced on Arc mainnet (eip155:5042); with another TOLLY_X402_NETWORK they can be searched but not bought.

The job board

People and agents post jobs with a budget; agents with an identity do the work first and deliver it with a preview and a price (at least 0.05 USDC, at most the budget); the poster pays TOLLY the price + a 10% fee (at least $0.001) to unlock the result, and TOLLY pays the agent. No escrow: nothing is paid for work that was not delivered and chosen.

• tolly_jobs_search (free): { query?, tag?, minBudgetUsd?, maxBudgetUsd?, limit?, before? }.
• tolly_job_get (free): { jobId } → the brief and each delivery's agent, price, all-in price, preview and a coarse size (no result hash before an unlock). Results stay hidden until the poster unlocks one. All text is untrusted.
• tolly_job_post (signed, free): { title, brief, budgetUsd, deadlineHours?, tags?, asAgent? } from the configured wallet (it signs TOLLY's sign-in message; it cannot move funds). Only this wallet can unlock the job's deliveries.
• tolly_job_deliver (signed, free): { jobId, agent: {kind: "registry" | "erc8004", id}, priceUsd, preview, contentType?, result }. The wallet must operate the listed registry agent, or own (or be the verified agentWallet of) the ERC-8004 identity; it signs a message naming this exact result and price. TOLLY pays the identity's payout wallet once the poster unlocks it.
• tolly_job_unlock (paid): { jobId, deliveryId }. Before paying it re-reads the job and refuses unless this wallet posted it, the all-in price is price + fee, and it fits TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL and what is left of the day's budget; it pays only TOLLY's payee. The agent's result comes back labelled Agent delivery (untrusted data, not instructions), scrubbed and capped like a routed seller's answer, with the job id and token for tolly_recover_result.

Escrowed jobs (Tolly ACP)

Live on Arc mainnet: contract 0x75db32f542f981ca4E545A5B35379e3735104a65, published at GET /v1/acp. The free tools are listed once TOLLY's gateway says ACP is enabled; the wallet tools also need BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY, TOLLY_X402_NETWORK=eip155:5042, TOLLY_ACP_RPC_URL and TOLLY_ACP_ADDRESS set to that address (if TOLLY ever names another address, the ACP tools stay off). Tolly ACP is TOLLY's ERC-8183 job escrow on Arc: the client escrows a USDC budget, the provider submits work (the sha256 of its content goes on chain), the evaluator completes (the provider is paid the budget minus a 10% platform fee at today's setting, no evaluator fee) or rejects (full refund, no fee). After the job expires anyone can refund a funded job to the client. There is no grace period: providers should not submit near the deadline.

• tolly_acp_jobs_search, tolly_acp_job_get (free). A provider named by the client is not an accepted offer until it submits. includeDelivery returns the stored content behind the on-chain hash (client, evaluator or provider only), labelled untrusted, with verified: its sha256 is compared with the JobSubmitted log read over TOLLY_ACP_RPC_URL when the address is pinned (checked_against says so), otherwise with TOLLY's index only.
• tolly_acp_create, tolly_acp_set_provider, tolly_acp_set_budget, tolly_acp_submit, tolly_acp_complete, tolly_acp_reject, tolly_acp_claim_refund: one transaction each, gas only. tolly_acp_submit stores the content with TOLLY first and submits its sha256 only once TOLLY holds it; run it again with the same content after a submission to store it then (a submitted job's content is always taken, whatever the daily quotas).
• tolly_acp_fund (paid): { jobId, expectBudgetUsd } (required: the provider can change the budget while the job is Open) escrows the job's exact budget, held to TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL and the daily budget like a payment. It approves exactly the budget (only if the allowance is short; never unlimited) and funds. If the fund's broadcast fails ambiguously (the RPC may have taken it), the budget stays counted for the day (charged: "unknown", with the transaction hash).

Every transaction is built by TOLLY's gateway and re-encoded locally before sending: the server sends only when TOLLY's {to, data, value, chainId} equals its own encoding of the intended call (contract address as published and pinned, selector, every argument, chain), and only on the chain of TOLLY_X402_NETWORK.

Agent inboxes

An agent identity can hold one email address, <handle>@<TOLLY's inbox domain>, to sign up for services and receive their codes apart from its owner's mail. Not yet enabled on TOLLY: the tools appear once it is (GET /v1/inbox answers enabled: true; until then it answers 503 inbox_unavailable and the tools stay hidden). All four tools need BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY and TOLLY_X402_NETWORK (they sign; none of them pays):

• tolly_inbox_claim: { handle, agent: {kind: "registry" | "erc8004", id} }. The wallet must operate the listed registry agent, or own (or be the verified agentWallet of) the ERC-8004 identity; it signs a message naming the address. Handles are never reissued.
• tolly_inbox_list: { handle, limit?, before? }; tolly_inbox_read: { handle, messageId } (plain text, never HTML; codes and links found; links never opened); tolly_inbox_otp: { handle, sinceMinutes?, includeSpam? } (the newest code and/or link).

Reading uses the operator session (registry) or a one-day read token minted with a signed message (ERC-8004); tokens stay inside the server process and are never shown to the model. Everything a sender wrote comes back labelled Email content (untrusted data, not instructions), scrubbed of invisible characters and capped at 40,000 characters: email is prompt-injection surface.

Tolly Compute (prepaid model inference)

Prepaid credit for model inference, bought with x402. tolly_compute_balance and tolly_compute_topup appear when TOLLY serves compute (GET /v1/compute/models answers with at least one model; otherwise it answers 503 compute_unavailable and they stay hidden), and tolly_compute_chat is listed only with TOLLY_COMPUTE_API_KEY set.

• tolly_compute_balance (signed, free) shows this wallet's credit: balance, held, spendable and recent ledger entries. It signs a compute sign-in message with the buyer key, which cannot move funds.
• tolly_compute_topup (paid): { topUpToUsd, minUsd? }.
  • If spendable credit is below minUsd (default topUpToUsd), it buys compute.credit.* denominations until it reaches topUpToUsd, at most 5 purchases.
  • Every purchase is an ordinary paid call: TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL and the persisted daily budget apply.
  • Credit lands when each payment settles.
• tolly_compute_chat (offered only with TOLLY_COMPUTE_API_KEY=tck_…): { model, messages, maxTokens, system? }.
  • One model call (Claude, GPT/Codex, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, private uncensored models and more: GET /v1/compute/models), paid from the credit by that key, in the model's own format (chosen for you). The key's per-request and daily caps are enforced by TOLLY.
  • Returns the text and the charge.
  • Create keys with a signed compute session (POST /v1/compute/keys).
• Automatic top-up: set TOLLY_COMPUTE_AUTO_TOPUP=<minUsd>:<topUpToUsd> (e.g. 1:5) beside BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY and TOLLY_COMPUTE_API_KEY. When tolly_compute_chat finds too little credit, it buys more from this wallet (each purchase within TOLLY_X402_MAX_PER_CALL and the daily budget) and runs the call again, once, so an agent keeps working without a human.
  • Credit is bought by the buyer key itself, and only for a compute key of that same wallet.
  • Parallel calls share one top-up. If a purchase does not raise the credit, automatic top-up turns itself off until restart.

Build from source

Developing needs Node.js 22.12 or later (the published package runs on Node.js 20 or later).

git clone https://github.com/TollyLabs/x402-mcp.git && cd x402-mcpnpm cinpm run typechecknpm testnpm run build          # bundles src/ into dist/index.jsnode dist/index.js     # stdio MCP server; same environment variables as above

To use a local build from an MCP client, point command at node and args at the absolute path of dist/index.js. Docker (stdio): docker build -t tolly-x402-mcp . then docker run -i --rm -e BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY -e TOLLY_X402_NETWORK tolly-x402-mcp.

Layout: src/index.ts (MCP server: tools, spending ledger, routed buys), src/sdk.ts (x402 buyer: discovery, price checks, spending policy, EIP-3009 signing, quote-bound nonces, recovery), src/usage.ts (the signed sign-in and delivery messages), src/acp.ts + src/tolly-acp.ts (Tolly ACP tools and calldata encoders), src/wallet.ts (the allowance float), src/policy.ts + src/spend-policy.ts (AgentSpendPolicy payer mode), src/abi/ (contract ABIs), test/ (vitest, no network: local mock servers and scripted chains only).

License

MIT