{
  "name": "PayScout (formerly Spot-Check) + verified x402 catalog",
  "version": "0.16.0",
  "payscout": {
    "home": "https://payscout.dev",
    "api": "https://api.payscout.dev",
    "legacy_host": "https://verified-catalog-lookup.withgrokbot.workers.dev",
    "note": "All three hosts serve the same Worker, routes and payments."
  },
  "usage": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/lookup?task=web-search&max_price=0.01&n=5",
  "paid": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/lookup/paid?task=web-search&max_price=0.01&n=5",
  "products": {
    "overnight-cos-pack": {
      "url": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/products/overnight-cos-pack",
      "title": "Overnight Chief of Staff: Multi-Bot Setup Pack",
      "price_usdc": 9,
      "note": "Always paid via x402; SELF_CLIENTS are not exempt"
    },
    "endpoint-spot-check": {
      "url": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/products/endpoint-spot-check",
      "title": "PayScout (formerly x402 Endpoint Spot-Check)",
      "price_usdc": "0.01-0.25",
      "free_per_day": 1,
      "note": "1 free SSRF-safe x402 challenge probe per client per UTC day, then $0.01 to $0.25 USDC (one tenth of the target's quoted price); never pays the target. SELF_CLIENTS exempt from free quota only."
    }
  },
  "mcp": "https://api.payscout.dev/mcp",
  "guard": {
    "repo": "https://github.com/withgrokbot/x402-spotcheck",
    "one_line": "const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(spotCheckFetch(fetch), client);",
    "note": "asks PayScout right before your x402 client pays; skip blocks the payment"
  },
  "skips": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/skips",
  "receipts": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/receipts",
  "tasks": "https://api.payscout.dev/v1/tasks",
  "openapi": "https://api.payscout.dev/openapi.json",
  "catalog": "https://withgrokbot.github.io/verified-catalog/catalog.json",
  "pricing": {
    "free_per_day": 5,
    "free_scope": "per client per UTC day; client = the client value when sent, otherwise a salted hash of your IP",
    "then": "HTTP 402 x402 payment requirement: $0.02 USDC on Base (eip155:8453), scheme exact, payTo 0x37cfCC8a29e9ff9458902B29E31E42dc7B718674",
    "facilitator": "https://facilitator.payai.network",
    "metered": "/v1/lookup after the free quota; /v1/lookup/paid always (same results); /v1/products/overnight-cos-pack always $9 USDC; /v1/products/endpoint-spot-check 1 free/day then $0.01 to $0.25 USDC (one tenth of the target's quoted price). /mcp, /v1/tasks, /openapi.json, /health are free (MCP lookup shares vc-mcp quota; get_overnight_cos_pack paid; endpoint_spot_check shares spot-check quota)"
  },
  "payment_policy": "Payment buys query access only. It never changes results, sort order, listings, check results or known-answer outcomes: free, paid and exempt lookups run the same code on the same data and get identical results.",
  "privacy": "Raw IPs are never stored. Lookups are counted by a weekly-salted hash of IP /24 + User-Agent, or by the client value you send. The free quota is counted by the client value, or by a daily-salted hash of the IP."
}