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Do not assume ApexScout accepts vouchers or escrowed batch payment today."},"guardrails":["No paid calls are made by this readiness surface.","No escrow, voucher acceptance, or batch settlement is enabled.","No facilitator-sponsored gas claim is made for ApexScout production traffic.","No settlement rail or seller wallet change is made.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic buyer spending is added.","No buyer-level data, full wallet addresses, full payment payloads, voucher histories, or paid response bodies are public.","No revenue, conversion, endorsement, compliance, legal, tax, investment, lending, or trading guarantee is made.","No scraping, posting, DMs, email, outreach, third-party discovery, fake traffic, or fake feedback is added."],"publicCopy":"ApexScout is batch-settlement aware, but batch settlement is not enabled. Buyers should still start with the free Agent Spend Passport and use the standard buyer-controlled x402 paid retry only when the Passport says it is safe.","nextAction":"Keep the current Base mainnet x402 flow live, monitor official x402 batch-settlement implementation guidance, and only evaluate a settlement change after real repeated buyer-agent usage justifies it."},"x402MetadataPreflight":{"name":"ApexScout x402 Metadata Preflight","version":"v2.2.81-brand-asset-integration","mode":"free-no-spend-privacy-preflight","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","purpose":"Check x402 payment metadata before a buyer agent retries with payment, so resource URLs, descriptions, reason strings, and payload previews do not carry secrets or buyer-level private data.","sourceSignal":{"privacyHardeningPaper":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11430","coinbaseAgentCorePayments":"https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-powered-by-x402-and-coinbase","awsAgentCorePayments":"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/agents-that-transact-introducing-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-built-with-coinbase-and-stripe/","interpretation":"Agent payment systems are adding budgets, approvals, observability, and x402 discovery. ApexScout adds a seller-side metadata privacy preflight while keeping spend buyer-controlled."},"routes":{"page":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-metadata-preflight","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight","checkApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight/check","agentSpendPassport":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","agentSpendPassportPrepareApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","agentRevenueAuditPreview":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-revenue-audit-preview","agentRevenueAuditPreviewApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-revenue-audit-preview","agentPaymentAlpha":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-payment-alpha","mcpToolPack":"https://apexscout.ai/mcp-tool-pack","docsJson":"https://apexscout.ai/docs.json"},"checkInputSchema":{"route":"/api/opportunity-check | /api/agent-revenue-audit | unknown","resourceUrl":"optional string","paymentDescription":"optional string","reason":"optional string","payloadPreview":"optional object or string; raw value is classified but not returned publicly","source":"optional string"},"checkOutputSchema":{"status":"ready_to_send | redact_before_payment | stop","piiRisk":"low | medium | high","privacyCheck":"object","policyCheck":"object","sanitizedMetadata":"object","expectedSafeFlow":"array","guardrails":"array"},"detectedPatterns":[{"label":"email address","severity":"medium","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"phone-like string","severity":"medium","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"full EVM address","severity":"medium","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"API key or secret token","severity":"high","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"private key or seed phrase","severity":"high","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"customer or CRM data","severity":"medium","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"SSN","severity":"high","rawValuesReturned":false},{"label":"password","severity":"high","rawValuesReturned":false}],"noSpendGuarantee":{"routeIsFree":true,"paidCallsMadeByPreflight":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false,"storesRawMetadataPublicly":false,"returnsRawPayloadPreviewPublicly":false,"buyerLevelDataExposed":false,"settlementRailChanged":false,"sellerWalletChanged":false},"recommendedBuyerPath":["Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","Preview /agent-revenue-audit-preview before using the $5 Agent Revenue Audit.","Run /api/x402-metadata-preflight/check on route, resource URL, payment description, reason string, and payload preview.","If the metadata preflight says stop, do not pay.","If it says redact_before_payment, use sanitizedMetadata before any buyer-controlled x402 retry.","Pay only when the buyer wallet, budget, route, and privacy status are approved."],"sampleInput":{"route":"/api/opportunity-check","resourceUrl":"https://agent-research-brief-api-production.up.railway.app/api/opportunity-check","paymentDescription":"Cheapest x402 proof for a buyer agent.","reason":"Run a light trust check without sensitive fields.","payloadPreview":{"subject":"Example API","goal":"Decide whether this is worth deeper review."},"source":"metadata-preflight-page"},"guardrails":["No spend happens in this metadata preflight.","No paid upstream call happens in this metadata preflight.","No raw payload preview is returned publicly.","No raw buyer goals, buyer identities, full wallet addresses, payment payloads, or paid response bodies are exposed.","No legal, tax, investment, lending, compliance, or trading advice.","No scraping, outreach, posts, DMs, emails, manual sharing, third-party discovery, fake traffic, or fake feedback."],"nextAction":"Use this preflight after the Agent Spend Passport and before any buyer-controlled paid x402 retry."},"sourceUrls":{"coinbaseMcpX402":"https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/mcp-server","coinbaseBazaar":"https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/bazaar","coinbaseNetworkSupport":"https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/x402/network-support","coinbaseErc20":"https://www.coinbase.com/developer-platform/discover/launches/x402-ERC20","coinbaseBatchSettlement":"https://x.com/CoinbaseDev/status/2054241284651676074","x402BatchSettlementDetail":"https://x.com/Jnix2007/status/2054233052872872194","awsAgenticCommerce":"https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/x402-and-agentic-commerce-redefining-autonomous-payments-in-financial-services/","agentCorePaymentsCoinbase":"https://www.coinbase.com/blog/introducing-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-payments-powered-by-x402-and-coinbase","stripeMachinePaymentsProtocol":"https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol","paymentMetadataHardening":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11430","policyPaymentExecution":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02023","complianceAwareAgenticPayments":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00071","agenticRiskStandard":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03976"},"sourceInterpretation":"ApexScout uses these public signals as product-readiness inputs. This packet is not a claim of official partnership, endorsement, or buyer-side wallet integration.","agentReadableSurfaces":{"page":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-payment-alpha","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-payment-alpha","agentSpendPassport":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","agentSpendPassportApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport","agentSpendPassportPrepareApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","x402BatchSettlementReadiness":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-batch-settlement","x402BatchSettlementReadinessApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-batch-settlement","x402MetadataPreflight":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightCheckApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight/check","mcpToolPack":"https://apexscout.ai/mcp-tool-pack","mcpToolPackApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/mcp-tool-pack","mcpManifest":"https://apexscout.ai/.well-known/mcp.json","agentCoreReadiness":"https://apexscout.ai/agentcore-readiness","agentCoreGateway":"https://apexscout.ai/agentcore-gateway","agentCoreOpenApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agentcore-openapi.json","revenueSprint":"https://apexscout.ai/revenue-sprint","x402Proof":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-proof","buyerAgentChallenge":"https://apexscout.ai/buyer-agent-challenge","cashRegister":"https://apexscout.ai/api/cash-register","docs":"https://apexscout.ai/docs.json","publicAgent":"https://apexscout.ai/public-agent","agentCard":"https://apexscout.ai/.well-known/agent.json"},"guardrails":["Zero-contact and inbound-only.","No scraping or third-party endpoint discovery.","No posts, DMs, emails, manual messages, or contact campaigns.","No paid calls or paid upstream calls from this packet.","No fake traffic, fake feedback, or fake paid completions.","No settlement rail change.","No seller wallet change.","No batch settlement, escrow, off-chain voucher acceptance, or facilitator-sponsored gas claim.","No raw x402 resource URLs, reason strings, payload previews, full wallet addresses, secrets, or buyer-level metadata should be sent before the free metadata preflight passes.","No official AWS, Coinbase, or Stripe endorsement claim.","No official standards-body endorsement claim.","No guaranteed revenue claim.","No buyer wallet custody, buyer budget management, or automatic paid retry.","No regulated compliance enforcement claim.","No investment, legal, tax, compliance, lending, or trading advice.","No buyer-level public data."],"privacy":{"publicMetrics":"aggregate-only","buyerLevelDataPublic":false,"buyerPromptsPublic":false,"buyerWalletHistoriesPublic":false,"fullWalletAddressesPublic":false,"fullPaymentPayloadsPublic":false,"rawPaymentMetadataPublic":false,"rawFeedbackPublic":false,"paidResponsesPublic":false,"cashRegisterAggregateOnly":true,"prePaymentMetadataChecklist":"route-minimum-only","policyControlsPublic":true,"complianceScreeningClaimed":false},"paymentGateExpectations":{"opportunityCheck":{"path":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$0.01","amountAtomicUnits":"10000","network":"eip155:8453"},"agentRevenueAudit":{"path":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","expectedUnpaidStatus":402,"price":"$5.00","amountAtomicUnits":"5000000","network":"eip155:8453"}},"nextAction":"Keep zero-contact inbound mode active, make /agent-revenue-audit the clear builder close path, and watch aggregate Cash Register movement without claiming conversion unless source attribution is visible."}