# Hermes Micro-Agent – Hash

> Hermes Micro-Agent – Hash is a paid API for AI agents from hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Computes a cryptographic hash of a given text string, billed per-call at $0.10 USDC via HTTP 402 on Base.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com/hash?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hermes-micro-agent-hash-15d26679
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3Ws9Kmw0NxGWJOhelOyj-

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 hermes-micro-agent-hash-15d26679 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Hash this string for me using Hermes Micro-Agent: 'my-secret-api-key-value-2024'

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a quick, pay-per-use cryptographic hash operation without provisioning your own compute or libraries — especially in agent pipelines already using the x402/USDC micropayment stack on Base. It is part of the Hermes multi-task suite, so if you are already calling other Hermes tasks (summarize, translate, etc.), adding hash calls is frictionless within the same payment flow.

## Known failure modes

- Missing 'prompt' field returns an error response
- Empty string input may produce an error or hash of empty input
- Payment failure (HTTP 402 not resolved) blocks execution
- Network timeout from the self-hosted endpoint at theworkpc.com
- Unsupported characters or very large payloads may be rejected

## How this service works

20 paid AI and data micro-tasks over HTTP 402 on Base (USDC): summarize, extract, keywords, sentiment, translate, rewrite, proofread, python_debug, code_lint, code_explain, code_refactor, code_review, json_minify, json_query, csv_to_json, hash, base64, convert, describe_image, probe_media. Each call is priced per-task and verified on-chain before execution.

## Output

Returns a string containing the computed hash (digest) of the submitted input text. The exact hashing algorithm used is determined by the service; output is a hex or base64-encoded digest string.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "prompt"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "task": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Which micro-task to run"
  },
  "input": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Alias for prompt"
  },
  "prompt": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "Text to process"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "string"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hermes-micro-agent-hash-15d26679/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/hermesmicroservice.theworkpc.com/llms.txt)