A Spending Guardrail for Agentic Payments — Hands-On x402
Let Claude pay an x402 testnet paywall without holding the wallet key, then test payment limits, rolling budgets, and duplicate protection.
Notes on what I'm learning — code, systems, and everything in between.
Let Claude pay an x402 testnet paywall without holding the wallet key, then test payment limits, rolling budgets, and duplicate protection.
Agentic security starts from agent trust, and trust starts from verifiability: an agent can't monitor itself or declare itself secure. Why defense in depth needs a watcher underneath — read-only, open source, local-only — and why I built perch.