tag:agentutility.ai,2026:updates Daily notes on x402, the agent economy, and the agentutility endpoint portfolio. By x.com/agentutility_ai. 2026-08-15T12:00:00Z agentutility-site https://agentutility.ai/icon.png agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-15:/updates/web-search-repeat-research-recipe 2026-08-15T12:00:00Z 2026-08-15T12:00:00Z

The new web-search recipe caps one paid request, records a local run claim, and keeps the query, result count, and recency window stable for a later source-list comparison.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-14:/updates/image-generate-pro-repeatable-assets 2026-08-14T12:00:00Z 2026-08-14T12:00:00Z

The premium image route now explains how to preserve a chosen tier, canvas, and seed after an asset is approved.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-14:/updates/agentutility-cli 2026-08-14T12:00:00Z 2026-08-14T12:00:00Z

npx @agentutility/cli handles wallet creation, catalog search, price checks, and the x402 payment handshake. Two commands from zero to a paid call.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-13:/updates/image-generate-price 2026-08-13T12:00:00Z 2026-08-13T12:00:00Z

The repeatable hosted-PNG route and its inherited image-generation aliases now charge $0.011 per call. The request and response contract is unchanged.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-13:/updates/image-generate-ai-image-generator-copy 2026-08-13T12:00:00Z 2026-08-13T12:00:00Z

The image-generate listing and Synthforge MCP tool now lead with the AI image generator job while keeping the existing request and hosted-PNG response unchanged.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-12:/updates/writing-a-cluster-design-spec 2026-08-12T12:00:00Z 2026-08-12T12:00:00Z

Our cluster spec names the buyer, x402 wedge, lead endpoint, build order, and kill criteria before coding starts, keeping paid agent tools tied to a callable job.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-11:/updates/image-generate-repeatable-assets 2026-08-11T12:00:00Z 2026-08-11T12:00:00Z

A runnable image-generate request that keeps prompt, dimensions, tier, and seed together so an agent can reproduce an approved asset instead of starting over.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-10:/updates/endpoint-deprecation-without-tears 2026-08-10T12:00:00Z 2026-08-10T12:00:00Z

Retire paid x402 routes safely with a dated notice, an updated registry record, a free 410 response, and a machine-readable link that sends agents to the successor.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-09:/updates/translate-recurring-workflows 2026-08-09T12:00:00Z 2026-08-09T12:00:00Z

The translate listing now makes its recurring agent use cases and response contract explicit.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-08:/updates/browser-session-update-2026-08-08 2026-08-08T12:00:00Z 2026-08-08T12:00:00Z

browser-session still costs 0.03 USDC per call, but its catalog contract now caps public URLs at 4,096 characters and marks two legacy controls as compatibility inputs.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-07:/updates/image-generate-repeatable-png-workflow 2026-08-07T12:00:00Z 2026-08-07T12:00:00Z

The image-generate listing now makes the hosted-PNG response and seed-based repeat requests easier to spot before an agent pays.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-06:/updates/whois-rdap-repeat-workflow 2026-08-06T12:00:00Z 2026-08-06T12:00:00Z

The WHOIS/RDAP comparison page now gives agents a runnable $0.005 lookup and the fields to retain for a later domain check.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-05:/updates/pricing-experiments 2026-08-05T12:00:00Z 2026-08-05T12:00:00Z

Data from a 73-endpoint repricing shows why a tenth of a cent can't create demand, one-cent calls suit repeat work, and ten-cent calls need explicit user value.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-04:/updates/the-bazaar-ranking-signals 2026-08-04T12:00:00Z 2026-08-04T12:00:00Z

Coinbase Bazaar ranks x402 endpoints by query relevance and paid usage signals. Here’s how call volume, buyer reach, recent activity, and metadata affect discovery.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-03:/updates/ip-asn-for-anti-abuse 2026-08-03T12:00:00Z 2026-08-03T12:00:00Z

Use WebProbe ip-asn to map request IPs to network owners, spot traffic from hosting or VPN ranges, and add an agent-infrastructure signal without blocking legitimate users.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-02:/updates/wordmint-vs-direct-llm-call 2026-08-02T12:00:00Z 2026-08-02T12:00:00Z

A direct OpenAI call can cost one-tenth of Wordmint summarize, but Wordmint’s fixed $0.005 x402 price can make agent budgets and USDC settlement easier to manage.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-08-01:/updates/agent-card-fields-explained 2026-08-01T12:00:00Z 2026-08-01T12:00:00Z

Read an ERC-8004 registration file field by field, see how routers and explorers use each value, and avoid URL or image-hosting mistakes that can make a registered agent disappear.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-31:/updates/translate-text-recovery 2026-07-31T12:00:00Z 2026-07-31T12:00:00Z

The canonical translation route now uses the fast provider first, accepts fenced JSON replies, and reports provider exhaustion as a dependency failure.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-30:/updates/translate-text-localization 2026-07-30T12:00:00Z 2026-07-30T12:00:00Z

translate-text now spells out the translation jobs it handles for agents that repeatedly localize messages, support replies, and documents.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-29:/updates/the-100-call-stress-test 2026-07-29T12:00:00Z 2026-07-29T12:00:00Z

A 100-call burst against token-count finished without a failed purchase. Here’s the latency spread, the $0.50 bill, and the client-side limit that spoiled our first run.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-28:/updates/twitter-search-recovery 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z

Twitter search now makes its query handling and labeled public-index fallback clear before an agent pays.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-28:/updates/music-generate-prompt-only-fix 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z

Prompt-only and lyric-driven music generation now defaults to ACE-Step 1.5 with supported duration tiers.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-28:/updates/kimi-k3-x402 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z 2026-07-28T12:00:00Z

Two capped endpoints now expose Venice's Kimi K3 model for chat and structured agent planning.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-27:/updates/search-web-answer-engine-discovery 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z

The search-web listing now makes clear that it supplies live source results for answer engines and RAG flows, without implying it writes a synthesized answer.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-27:/updates/lost-buyer-recovery 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z

The endpoints behind several recently quiet buyer cohorts now have tighter fallback behavior, faster translation, corrected quality scoring, and lower prices.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-27:/updates/image-generate-prompt-to-png-discovery 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z

The image-generate listing now spells out the prompt controls, style choices, and response fields agents get when they need a hosted visual asset.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-27:/updates/hacker-news-search-discovery 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z

The hacker-news-search listing now calls out startup news, YC news, Show HN, and the fields returned before an agent makes a paid request.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-27:/updates/dictionary-discovery 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z 2026-07-27T12:00:00Z

The dictionary route gives agents a direct discovery term for English definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and synonyms.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-26:/updates/paid-endpoint-recovery 2026-07-26T12:00:00Z 2026-07-26T12:00:00Z

Web search, slop filtering, and content authenticity now return labeled partial results when one provider times out.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-24:/updates/x402-error-shapes 2026-07-24T12:00:00Z 2026-07-24T12:00:00Z

Separate payment challenges from replay failures, normalize x402 error bodies, and give agents a retry policy that prevents duplicate charges while preserving useful details.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-23:/updates/crypto-news-discovery 2026-07-23T12:00:00Z 2026-07-23T12:00:00Z

The crypto-news listing now makes its search scope, lookback, returned fields, and common agent use cases plain before a caller pays.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-23:/updates/crypto-headlines-search-intent 2026-07-23T12:00:00Z 2026-07-23T12:00:00Z

The crypto-headlines listing now makes its query, lookback, returned fields, and data-only scope clear.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-22:/updates/working-capital-aliases 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z

Two new endpoint names expose the existing cash conversion calculator under exact buyer search terms.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-22:/updates/what-an-agent-wallet-needs 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z

A launch checklist for agents paying on Base: create a hot wallet, add $10 USDC, use SDK signed-authorization helpers for x402 calls, then decide if ERC-8004 registration fits your public identity.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-22:/updates/crypto-news-search-intent 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z 2026-07-22T12:00:00Z

The crypto-news listing now makes its search terms, lookback, and returned fields clear.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-21:/updates/web-search-degraded-fallback 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z

web-search now avoids retrying quota failures, returns recent news results as a marked degraded fallback, and caches successful answers for repeat calls.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-21:/updates/market-news-sentiment-search-intent 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z

The market-news-sentiment listing now names its inputs, outputs, and limits in buyer language.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-21:/updates/creature-kit 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z 2026-07-21T12:00:00Z

A new composite endpoint returns an original 5e-style stat block and a rendered creature image together, instead of two separate calls.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-18:/updates/text-to-speech-paid-validation 2026-07-18T12:00:00Z 2026-07-18T12:00:00Z

The text-to-speech endpoint now accepts the common onyx voice name for its default model and advertises its 4,000-character limit so oversized requests are rejected before payment settles.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-18:/updates/paid-calls-now-fail-loud 2026-07-18T12:00:00Z 2026-07-18T12:00:00Z

upscale-image, qwen-image and image-to-video returned 424 when Venice or fal failed. A 4xx meant the reconciler never flagged the call for refund and the buyer stayed charged. They now return 503, and two of the three had real timeout or classification bugs behind them.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-17:/updates/the-mcp-pricing-field 2026-07-17T12:00:00Z 2026-07-17T12:00:00Z

Every MCP tool should publish its per-call USDC price, including 0 for free calls, so clients can compare costs and enforce a budget before sending a request on Base.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/source-trust-envelope 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

New composite endpoint source-trust-envelope blends content-authenticity-report, web-search corroboration, and website-trust-report into a single trusted/mixed/untrusted verdict for research agents deciding whether to cite a source.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/slop-filtered-brief 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

New composite endpoint slop-filtered-brief runs web, news, and X search on a topic, scores every candidate source with our ai-content-detector, and drops the AI-generated ones before returning the brief, with a count of what got filtered.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/inbound-message-firewall 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

New composite endpoint inbound-message-firewall screens an inbound message for injection and abuse and checks the authenticity of any claimed source URL it cites, returning one act/verify/block decision.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/google-search-reprice 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/cache-friendly-paid-endpoints 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

Learn when an x402 response can be cached, why paid bodies must stay out of shared CDN caches, and how weather and token-risk headers tell agents when reuse is safe.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-16:/updates/authentic-sentiment 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z 2026-07-16T12:00:00Z

New composite endpoint authentic-sentiment runs a post search, screens each post for AI-generated text and each author for bot-like authenticity, then rolls up sentiment only across what clears both filters.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-15:/updates/web-search-reprice 2026-07-15T12:00:00Z 2026-07-15T12:00:00Z

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-15:/updates/brand-clearance-end-to-end 2026-07-15T12:00:00Z 2026-07-15T12:00:00Z

Screen a candidate name against active USPTO marks, domain registrations, Wikipedia, and Hacker News for $0.25 USDC, then route on one scored response.

agentutility https://agentutility.ai tag:agentutility.ai,2026-07-14:/updates/x-account-slop-check 2026-07-14T12:00:00Z 2026-07-14T12:00:00Z

New composite endpoint x-account-slop-check pulls an account's recent posts and runs each qualifying post through the AI-content detector individually, returning a per-post verdict, an account-level slop rate, and an overall human/mixed/AI read.

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