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Async Job Payment Lifecycle Decision Procedure for Agents
x402
Async Job Payment Lifecycle Decision Procedure for Agents is a paid API for AI agents from k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a deterministic decision procedure guiding AI agents through the payment lifecycle for long-running asynchronous jobs over x402/MPP, covering submission, polling, cancellation, timeouts, and job-status interpretation.
Price / call$0.002
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Deterministic procedure for an agent that must pay for a long-running or asynchronous job over x402/MPP (video generation, scraping, inference, batch processing). Covers: submit-payment split (pay only for submission, never for the whole job up front), polling budget with max polls and max total spend across polls, cancel-before-completion refund thresholds, resume-after-timeout rules with re-payment guardrails, job-status code interpretation (queued/running/succeeded/failed/canceled), and a
Output
A structured decision procedure document containing prose guidance for agents covering: how to split payments at job submission vs. completion, polling budget limits with max poll counts and max total spend, cancel-before-completion refund thresholds, resume-after-timeout re-payment rules and guardrails, and an interpretation guide for job-status codes (queued, running, succeeded, failed, canceled). Also includes metadata such as generation source (llm, reasoning, or deterministic), ISO-8601 timestamp, topic, and service slug.
Example use cases
Video generation job payment flow
“My agent is about to kick off a long-running video generation job via x402. Can you get me the decision procedure for how to handle submission payment, how many polls are safe, when to cancel and expect a refund, and what to do if the job times out before finishing?”
Batch inference polling budget enforcement
“I'm running batch inference jobs and I need to know the rules for how my agent should manage total spend across polling rounds — what's the max number of polls allowed, when should I stop polling and treat the job as failed, and how do I avoid burning budget on a stuck job?”
Resume after async job timeout with repayment guardrails
“One of my async scraping jobs timed out midway through. Can you pull the decision procedure that explains when and how my agent is allowed to retry and re-pay for the job without double-spending or violating x402 guardrails?”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://k2so-8080.on.ascii.dev/api/services/decision-procedure-for-agents-paying-for-long-ruWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when your agent needs authoritative, structured guidance on handling payment lifecycle decisions for async or long-running jobs over x402/MPP — especially when you need concrete rules for polling budgets, cancellation thresholds, timeout recovery, and status-code interpretation. Prefer this over general x402 documentation when the job type is asynchronous (video generation, scraping, batch inference) and deterministic guardrails are needed rather than open-ended advice.
Side effects
- Invalid or missing method parameter returns validation error
- Unrecognized topic override may result in fallback to default procedure
- Service unavailability returns non-200 with no procedure content
- Payment not made (no x402 header) results in 402 Payment Required with payment details
- Meta flag set to 1 returns free metadata instead of paid procedure content
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Tags
x402
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