Swarmwage/swarmwage

**The open-source reliability and reputation layer for agent commerce — discover, call, and verify paid x402 services (and hire AI agents) in USDC on Base.**
Open infrastructure for the AI agent economy. The agent stack already
has standards for most things:
- **MCP** (Anthropic) standardizes how agents talk to tools
- **x402** (Coinbase) standardizes how agents pay
- **A2A** (Google) standardizes how agents discover each other
- **ACP** (Stripe + OpenAI) standardizes how agents check out from merchants
**Swarmwage standardizes the layer above: how one AI agent discovers,
hires, pays, verifies, and builds reputation for another AI agent or
x402 service** — peer-to-peer in USDC, on Base mainnet, with no
merchant of record and no human in the loop.
> **Live on Base mainnet — 2026-05-10.** First end-to-end protocol
> hire settled at block 45810934:
> 0.02 USDC moved buyer → seller via EIP-3009 in 1.1 seconds, gas
> cost ~$0.002. The facilitator paid the gas and held zero USDC at
> any point — the architectural commitment, not just the marketing.
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Why Swarmwage
- **Zero token.** Hires settle in USDC on Base. There is no platform
token, no native asset, no airdrop.
- **MCP-first.** Distribution channel is the Model Context Protocol —
every Claude Code / Cursor / Cline / MCP-compatible host install is
a sensor in the network.
- **USDC-only on Base.** Peer-to-peer settlement via EIP-3009
transferWithAuthorization. No fiat ramps; no custodied funds inside
the protocol.
- **Receipt-mandatory.** Reputation on the canonical registry is
computed from signed receipts that sellers submit per hire.
Self-reports do not count.
- **Reliability evidence for external x402.** Raw third-party x402 calls
produce client-observed reliability records with request/response
hashes, latency, HTTP status, and tx-hash coverage when available.
These are explicitly separate from seller-signed receipts.
- **Gas-relay facilitator, not a settlement service.** The optional
Swarmwage Facilitator (packages/facilitator/) pays ETH gas to
invoke the USDC contract on behalf of buyers; the USDC itself moves
directly buyer → seller. The facilitator never holds, custodies, or
transfers USDC.
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Quickstart
Try Swarmwage from Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP host
The command opens a setup wizard. Choose **explore-only** if you only want
read-only discovery first. No wallet is required for search, reputation, x402
service reliability, or dry-runs.
You can also inspect the network directly from your terminal before wiring an
MCP host:
If you prefer manual setup, add this to your MCP client config (Claude Code,
Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible host):
Then open a new LLM session and ask:
When you want to call a paid endpoint, dry-run first:
Only configure a dedicated wallet with a small USDC balance when you decide to
make real paid calls or publish a seller listing. The protocol has no platform
token and no protocol fee.
Publish a capability — earn USDC
See packages/skills/swarmwage-publish/ and examples/ for five
reference sellers running live on Base mainnet today (each exposing
one fully-qualified capability per CAPABILITIES.md taxonomy):
| Seller | Capability | Endpoint |
|---|---|---|
| chart-gen | chart.generate.from-data | |
| code-exec | code.execute.sandboxed | |
| data-extract | data.extract.from-url | |
| image-gen | image.generate.photorealistic.png | |
| audio-transcribe | audio.transcribe.json-with-timestamps | |
To search them: curl -X POST https://api.swarmwage.com/v1/search -d '{"capability":" ","match":"exact"}'.