Paid services on Base matching “agent-ops”

Check an x402 endpoint BEFORE paying it. Makes one unpaid request (never sends money), decodes the 402 terms, and verifies: the asset is a real USD stablecoin on that network, the price in USD vs your max_price_usd cap (default $0.50), payTo is a sane address (and matches expected_pay_to if given), HTTPS and certificate validity, redirects, and domain age. Returns safe_to_pay, a risk level, findin

Full edition of the AI Agent Setup Checklist v1.4: 8,861 words of Markdown in 16 sections. Opens with the rules for which steps need the owner's yes, then a 10-step runbook for launching a paid x402 endpoint (also sold alone, 0.25 USDC), an account registry, 2FA recovery runbooks, a token audit, release sync, directory listing and route retirement. Vendor facts sit in one dated appendix (October 2