# DexL Autonomous Agent Runner

> DexL Autonomous Agent Runner is a paid API for AI agents from agents.dexl.io, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Runs a named DexL agent autonomously end-to-end: it plans, discovers and pays for services, executes steps, and verifies results — all within a fixed USD budget

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agents.dexl.io/v1/agents/:id/autonomous
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/dexl-autonomous-agent-runner-6cee78db
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Tq_PH0AIDh2blv8it6AVe

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 dexl-autonomous-agent-runner-6cee78db -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Run my DexL agent (ID: agent_42) with the goal 'research the top 5 competitors in the EV market and summarize their pricing strategies', allow up to 20 steps, and keep spending under $0.50.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a fully autonomous, multi-step execution loop where the agent must discover, pay for, and verify external services on its own — not just a single API call or a simple chat completion. Ideal when the task requires dynamic planning and service orchestration under a hard spending cap, and you want to delegate the entire workflow rather than managing individual steps yourself.

## Known failure modes

- Budget exhausted before goal completion — agent halts mid-plan with partial results
- Max steps reached without completing the goal — returns whatever progress was made
- Agent ID not found or invalid — 404 error
- Goal is too ambiguous for the agent to form a valid plan — returns planning failure
- A required third-party service is unavailable — step fails and agent may retry or abort
- Insufficient USDC balance to cover x402 payment — run rejected before starting

## How this service works

Run a DexL agent autonomously: it plans, discovers services, pays for them, executes and verifies - paid for once with x402

## Output

Returns the outcome of the autonomous agent run, including the final result achieving the stated goal, a log of steps taken, which external services were discovered and called, and the total amount spent (which may be less than the budget ceiling, though unspent budget is not refunded).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "goal": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "What the agent should achieve, in plain language."
  },
  "max_steps": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Upper bound on plan steps."
  },
  "budget_usd": {
   "type": "number",
   "description": "Hard ceiling. The run cannot spend more; what it does not spend is not refunded."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/dexl-autonomous-agent-runner-6cee78db/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agents.dexl.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agents.dexl.io/llms.txt)