{"name":"ApexScout Agent Spend Passport","version":"v2.2.81-brand-asset-integration","mode":"free-no-spend-preflight","liveMode":"zero-contact-inbound-only","purpose":"Help buyer agents choose the right ApexScout route, check budget fit, avoid sensitive payloads, and generate a safe paid-call request body before any x402 payment.","agentCommercePositioning":{"headline":"AI agents can pay per API call, but the safe path starts with a free Passport.","statement":"ApexScout is packaged for machine-to-machine commerce: a buyer agent can inspect a route, receive HTTP 402 payment requirements, check budget and privacy risk, then make a buyer-controlled x402 payment only when the Passport says it is safe to proceed.","proofLabel":"Machine-to-machine commerce ready","proofPoints":["ApexScout exposes x402-paid API routes with machine-readable HTTP 402 requirements.","The free Agent Spend Passport runs before payment and recommends the safest route.","Buyer agents get a maxAmountAtomicUnits value before any paid retry.","The $0.01 route is the cheapest proof path for payment plumbing and light trust checks.","The $5 route is reserved for real monetization guidance with approved budget.","Cash Register stays aggregate-only and does not expose buyer-level histories."],"buyerControlledBoundary":["ApexScout does not auto-spend for the buyer.","ApexScout does not manage the buyer wallet.","ApexScout does not make paid upstream calls.","The buyer agent must follow its operator-approved budget cap.","The buyer agent must stop if the Passport says stop."]},"buyerAgentPrompts":[{"id":"proof-route","label":"Cheapest proof route","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport to decide whether I should run the cheapest x402 proof. My max budget is $0.01. Stop if the request is unsafe or over budget.","expectedRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","maxBudgetUsd":"0.01"},{"id":"builder-audit-route","label":"$5 builder audit route","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport to decide whether a $5 Agent Revenue Audit fits this monetization, pricing, route ladder, and x402 conversion request. Stop if budget, privacy, or policy checks fail.","expectedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","maxBudgetUsd":"5.00"},{"id":"stop-route","label":"Stop before payment","prompt":"Use ApexScout's free Agent Spend Passport and stop before payment if the request is vague, asks for legal, tax, investment, lending, compliance, or trading advice, includes secrets, or asks for scraping or outreach.","expectedRoute":"stop","maxBudgetUsd":"0.00"}],"firstCta":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","explanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","statement":"Before a buyer agent pays ApexScout, it can generate a free Spend Passport. The passport recommends the right route, checks the buyer's budget, warns about sensitive payload fields, and gives a copy-paste paid-call payload. It does not spend money.","passportFirstBuyerPath":["Inspect /x402-proof.","Generate a free /agent-spend-passport.","If the Passport recommends the $5 audit, preview /agent-revenue-audit-preview before paying.","Run the free /x402-metadata-preflight before any paid retry if the buyer metadata includes a resource URL, payment description, reason string, or payload preview.","If Passport recommends /api/opportunity-check, use the $0.01 route.","If Passport recommends /api/agent-revenue-audit, use the $5 route only with approved budget.","Stop if Passport says stop."],"recommendedNoSpendPreflight":{"method":"POST","path":"/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","page":"/agent-spend-passport","api":"/api/agent-spend-passport","beforePaidRoutes":true,"price":"free","paidCallsMade":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false,"cta":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","explanation":"The Passport does not spend money. It recommends the right route, checks budget fit, warns about sensitive fields, and gives a safe copy-paste paid-call payload.","easyMode":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport"},"easyMode":{"mode":"passport-easy-mode","title":"Generate a free Passport before any paid call","prepareEndpoint":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","page":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","noSpend":true,"oneMinuteSteps":["Pick Cheapest proof, $5 builder audit, or paste a short buyer goal.","Generate the free Passport.","If status is ready_to_buy or use_cheaper_route, copy the recommended route, max amount, and payload.","If status is stop, do not pay yet."],"presets":[{"id":"cheapest-proof","label":"Cheapest proof","description":"Use this when the buyer only needs the smallest x402 proof or light trust check.","input":{"buyerType":"buyer-agent","goal":"Run the cheapest x402 proof before a larger buyer-agent spend.","intendedRoute":"unknown","maxBudgetUsd":"0.01","source":"passport-easy-mode"},"expectedStatus":"ready_to_buy","expectedRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","expectedPrice":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","copyPastePayload":{"subject":"Buyer agent preflight target","buyerType":"buyer-agent","marketType":"other","goal":"Run the cheapest x402 proof before a larger buyer-agent spend.","knownSignals":["Buyer generated this payload from the free Agent Spend Passport."],"constraints":["Do not include secrets, private customer data, private keys, or full wallet addresses."],"source":"agent-spend-passport-opportunity-passport-easy-mode"}},{"id":"builder-audit","label":"$5 builder audit","description":"Use this when the buyer actually needs monetization, pricing, route ladder, or x402 conversion guidance.","input":{"buyerType":"builder","goal":"Review monetization, pricing, route ladder, and x402 conversion for my paid agent API.","intendedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","maxBudgetUsd":"5.00","source":"passport-easy-mode"},"expectedStatus":"ready_to_buy","expectedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","expectedPrice":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","copyPastePayload":{"serviceName":"Buyer agent service","buyerType":"agent-tool-builder","currentOffer":"Review monetization, pricing, route ladder, and x402 conversion for my paid agent API.","currentPaymentRail":"base-x402","targetBuyer":"buyer agents and builders evaluating x402 paid APIs","currentProblem":"Need a safer first paid route, pricing ladder, and conversion plan before spending more.","riskTolerance":"medium","source":"agent-spend-passport-revenue-audit-passport-easy-mode"}},{"id":"stop-check","label":"Stop check","description":"Use this when the buyer wants to confirm a request should stop before any paid call.","input":{"buyerType":"unknown","goal":"I need legal, tax, investment, or trading advice before paying.","intendedRoute":"unknown","maxBudgetUsd":"5.00","source":"passport-easy-mode"},"expectedStatus":"stop","expectedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","expectedPrice":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","copyPastePayload":{"serviceName":"Buyer agent service","buyerType":"unknown","currentOffer":"I need legal, tax, investment, or trading advice before paying.","currentPaymentRail":"base-x402","targetBuyer":"buyer agents and builders evaluating x402 paid APIs","currentProblem":"Need a safer first paid route, pricing ladder, and conversion plan before spending more.","riskTolerance":"medium","source":"agent-spend-passport-revenue-audit-passport-easy-mode"}}],"copyPaste":{"prepareCurl":"curl -sS https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{\"buyerType\":\"buyer-agent\",\"goal\":\"Run the cheapest x402 proof before a larger buyer-agent spend.\",\"intendedRoute\":\"unknown\",\"maxBudgetUsd\":\"0.01\",\"source\":\"passport-easy-mode\"}'","opportunityCheckPayload":{"subject":"Buyer agent preflight target","buyerType":"buyer-agent","marketType":"other","goal":"Run the cheapest x402 proof before a larger buyer-agent spend.","knownSignals":["Buyer generated this payload from the free Agent Spend Passport."],"constraints":["Do not include secrets, private customer data, private keys, or full wallet addresses."],"source":"agent-spend-passport-opportunity-passport-easy-mode"},"agentRevenueAuditPayload":{"serviceName":"Buyer agent service","buyerType":"agent-tool-builder","currentOffer":"Review monetization, pricing, route ladder, and x402 conversion for my paid agent API.","currentPaymentRail":"base-x402","targetBuyer":"buyer agents and builders evaluating x402 paid APIs","currentProblem":"Need a safer first paid route, pricing ladder, and conversion plan before spending more.","riskTolerance":"medium","source":"agent-spend-passport-revenue-audit-passport-easy-mode"},"stopExampleInput":{"buyerType":"unknown","goal":"I need legal, tax, investment, or trading advice before paying.","intendedRoute":"unknown","maxBudgetUsd":"5.00","source":"passport-easy-mode"}},"checklist":["Use the Passport before paying.","Run the x402 metadata preflight before payment when metadata includes URLs, reason strings, or payload previews.","Keep maxAmountAtomicUnits equal to the Passport result.","Use the $0.01 route for proof or light checks.","Use the $5 route only for real monetization guidance and approved budget.","Remove secrets, private customer data, full wallet addresses, passwords, API keys, private keys, seed phrases, and SSNs before any paid call.","Stop if the Passport says stop."]},"routes":{"page":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-spend-passport","api":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport","prepare":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-spend-passport/prepare","x402MetadataPreflight":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightCheckApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight/check","agentRevenueAuditPreview":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-revenue-audit-preview","agentRevenueAuditPreviewApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-revenue-audit-preview"},"outcomes":[{"status":"ready_to_buy","recommendedRoute":"/api/opportunity-check","label":"Buy /api/opportunity-check","price":"$0.01","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"10000","useWhen":"Use when the buyer wants the cheapest x402 proof or a light trust/opportunity check."},{"status":"ready_to_buy","recommendedRoute":"/api/agent-revenue-audit","label":"Buy /api/agent-revenue-audit","price":"$5.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"5000000","useWhen":"Use when the buyer is a builder/operator asking for monetization guidance for an agent, API, x402 service, or AI tool."},{"status":"stop","recommendedRoute":"none","label":"Stop / do not buy yet","price":"$0.00","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"0","useWhen":"Use when the request is vague, high-stakes, asks for legal/tax/investment/trading advice, includes sensitive data, or exceeds the buyer's budget."}],"prepareInputSchema":{"buyerType":"buyer-agent | builder | operator | api-founder | unknown","goal":"string","intendedRoute":"/api/opportunity-check | /api/agent-revenue-audit | unknown","maxBudgetUsd":"optional string","source":"optional string"},"prepareOutputSchema":{"status":"ready_to_buy | use_cheaper_route | stop","recommendedRoute":"string","price":"string","maxAmountAtomicUnits":"string","budgetCheck":"object","privacyCheck":"object","policyCheck":"object","copyPastePayload":"object"},"noSpendGuarantee":{"routeIsFree":true,"paidCallsMadeByPassport":false,"paidUpstreamCalls":false,"storesBuyerLevelDataPublicly":false,"exposesRawBuyerGoalsPublicly":false,"guaranteesRevenue":false},"guardrails":["No spend happens in this passport step","Do not exceed approved budget","Do not send secrets or private customer data","Run the free x402 metadata preflight before paid retry when metadata includes URLs, reason strings, or payload previews","Do not buy the $5 route unless monetization guidance is actually needed","No legal, tax, investment, lending, compliance, or trading advice","No scraping, outreach, posts, DMs, emails, or third-party scanning"],"publicCopy":"Not sure what to buy? Generate a free Agent Spend Passport before paying.","monitorGuidance":["Do not run unpaid POST checks repeatedly during normal monitoring.","Prefer GET /api/cash-register and GET /api/passport-signal-health for routine checks.","Run unpaid POST payment-gate checks only after deploys or if payment behavior is suspected to be broken."],"links":{"buyerStart":"https://apexscout.ai/agentcore-buyer-start","agentPaymentAlpha":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-payment-alpha","agentCoreGateway":"https://apexscout.ai/agentcore-gateway","mcpToolPack":"https://apexscout.ai/mcp-tool-pack","x402Proof":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-proof","agentRevenueAuditPreview":"https://apexscout.ai/agent-revenue-audit-preview","agentRevenueAuditPreviewApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/agent-revenue-audit-preview","x402MetadataPreflight":"https://apexscout.ai/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight","x402MetadataPreflightCheckApi":"https://apexscout.ai/api/x402-metadata-preflight/check","cashRegister":"https://apexscout.ai/api/cash-register"},"nextAction":"Use the passport before buying so the buyer agent starts with the cheapest safe route and stops on budget, privacy, or policy risk."}