@melis-ai/x402-tools-mcp

@melis-ai/x402-tools-mcp

Boring infrastructure for agent builders. 22 pay-per-call utility tools served as an MCP server — scrape, validate, embed, store, moderate, notify, convert, prevent loops. No accounts, no API keys, no subscriptions. Pay with USDC on Base via the x402 protocol.

npx @melis-ai/x402-tools-mcp

→ Full catalogue with prices and live examples: agents.melis.ai→ Canonical 5-step RAG pipeline: agents.melis.ai/pipelines/rag→ 5-minute getting started: agents.melis.ai/docs/getting-started

Tool catalogue (22)

22 services. Live prices and live wallet on Basescan.

Why x402, why pay-per-call

• No signup tax. Every tool here works the moment your wallet has USDC. No accounts to provision, no API keys to rotate, no subscription tiers to forecast.
• Charge-on-success-only. Every service settles payment only on HTTP 2xx with non-empty content. Failed calls cost nothing — your retry budget is preserved.
• Composes naturally. ScrapePay → MarkdownOpt → EmbedPay → MemoryServe → MEMSCRUB is the canonical RAG pipeline. Each step's payment is independent and verifiable on-chain.
• MCP-native. One install, all 22 tools appear in Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Code, or any MCP-aware agent runtime.
• No vendor lock-in. x402 is a Linux Foundation protocol (April 2026) co-signed by Google, AWS, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard. Other providers will offer x402 services; your wallet client works with all of them.

Installation — Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "x402-tools": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@melis-ai/x402-tools-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonWindows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Restart Claude Desktop. All 22 tools appear in the tool picker.

Installation — Cursor, Cline, Continue, Claude Code

See agents.melis.ai/docs/install-mcp for per-client setup.

Example: canonical RAG pipeline

// All 22 tools registered as MCP tools — your agent calls them like any function
const page    = await callTool('scrapepay',   { url: 'https://example.com/article' });
const md      = await callTool('markdownopt', { html: page.content });
const vec     = await callTool('embedpay',    { input: md.markdown });
const stored  = await callTool('memoryserve_write', {
  agent_id: 'agent-1', content: md.markdown, vector: vec.embedding,
});

// Later — recall and guard against indirect injection
const hits    = await callTool('memoryserve_query', {
  agent_id: 'agent-1', query: 'what did we learn about X?',
});
for (const chunk of hits.matches) {
  const scrub = await callTool('memscrub', { content: chunk.content });
  if (scrub.risk_level === 'safe') useChunk(chunk);
}

Total cost per 5k-token page: ~$0.017 USDC. Detailed walkthrough: agents.melis.ai/pipelines/rag.

Funding the wallet

x402 settles in USDC on Base (Coinbase L2). Two paths:

• Coinbase Wallet — buy USDC, switch to Base network, send to your agent's wallet.
• Bridge from Ethereum mainnet — bridge.base.org.

$1.00 of USDC covers 100 ScrapePay calls, 200 PromptGuard calls, or one full RAG-pipeline ingestion run.

Discovery surfaces (for agent builders + AI consumers)

Comparisons

• ScrapePay vs Firecrawl
• EmbedPay vs OpenAI Embeddings (direct)
• MemoryServe vs Pinecone
• Full alternatives doc

Source & licensing

• MCP wrapper source (this repo): MIT licensed.
• Service code (the 22 services themselves): closed source for security.
• Site content (agents.melis.ai docs): CC-BY-4.0 — attribute "melis x402 Tools" with a link to agents.melis.ai.

Security

Found a vulnerability? See SECURITY.md. Email [email protected]. Critical issues acknowledged within 24 hours.

Citing this work

If you use melis x402 Tools in research or downstream products, see CITATION.cff for the canonical citation.

Author

Sean Melis — agent operator and builder, London UK.Catalogue: agents.melis.ai · Email: [email protected]