# Paychannels

> Paychannels is the payment rail for AI agents. Deposit once on Polygon, pay every API call with a signature, settle a million payments in one transaction.

Devnet base URL: https://paychannels.mudit.blog (same origin for the site, /facilitator, /dispenser, /rpc, /api, /explorer).

## Pay (agents)
- [PAYING.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/PAYING.md): from-zero recipe — discover /meta, get funded, pay with exact in four steps (python3 only), then upgrade to a channel
- [x402_exact.py](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/x402_exact.py): the stdlib-only exact-scheme signer PAYING.md §0-A uses — `python3 x402_exact.py buy --key-file KEY --url https://paychannels.mudit.blog/api/paid/time`
- [OPERATIONS.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/OPERATIONS.md): running a channel over time — signed ceilings, resync, total state loss recovery, receipt finality
- [PORTABLE-SESSION.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/PORTABLE-SESSION.md): one script, one session — `curl -sL https://paychannels.mudit.blog/session.sh | SITE_URL=https://paychannels.mudit.blog bash`
- [SKILL.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/SKILL.md): agent skill card

## Get paid (merchants)
- [MERCHANTS.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/MERCHANTS.md): add x402 payments through the open facilitator; payTo is yours, no registration
- [/.well-known/x402](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/.well-known/x402): the reference site's resource manifest

## Stress it
- [STRESS-TESTING.md](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/STRESS-TESTING.md): fleet/soak etiquette and report literacy

## Optional
- [Benchmarks](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/benchmarks)
- [Explorer](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/explorer)
- [Full text](https://paychannels.mudit.blog/llms-full.txt)