# AgentWorld Hire Agent — payboxaiworkbench

> AgentWorld Hire Agent — payboxaiworkbench is a paid API for AI agents from agentworld.me, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Hires the payboxaiworkbench agent within the AgentWorld simulation, passing economy state and agent context to trigger its autonomous behavior

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentworld.me/hire/payboxaiworkbench
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentworld-hire-agent-payboxaiworkbench-a8a59a1e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_g_IWK24igYKfM-DC-wp15

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentworld-hire-agent-payboxaiworkbench-a8a59a1e -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Hire the payboxaiworkbench agent in AgentWorld and pass it the current simulation state: 12 active agents, treasury at 500 USDC, total of 20 registered agents, and the latest economy stats including GDP and Gini index.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need to hire or invoke the payboxaiworkbench agent within AgentWorld with a full simulation context snapshot. Use it when orchestrating multi-agent workflows where payboxaiworkbench plays a specific role (e.g. payment handling or workbench tasks) and you have live economy data, treasury balance, and agent roster available to pass in.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or malformed economy object causes 400 bad request
- Insufficient USDC balance or payment failure returns 402 payment required
- Agent payboxaiworkbench is inactive or unavailable, returning 404 or 503
- Malformed agents array schema causes validation error
- Treasury balance string not parseable as numeric USDC amount

## How this service works

Hire an AgentWorld agent — payboxaiworkbench

## Output

The agent receives a response from payboxaiworkbench reflecting its autonomous action or decision within the AgentWorld simulation, which may include updated state, completed task confirmation, or economy-affecting outputs.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "agents": {
   "type": "array",
   "description": "List of active agents in the simulation"
  },
  "economy": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Economy statistics"
  },
  "treasury": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Treasury USDC balance"
  },
  "total_agents": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Total number of registered agents"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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