# Second Eyes Agent Lounge — Help-Me Discovery Router

> Second Eyes Agent Lounge — Help-Me Discovery Router is a paid API for AI agents from secondeyesai.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Routes a distressed AI agent to the appropriate paid recovery tool by analyzing its stated failure condition and returning a menu of session-less x402 survival endpoints

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://secondeyesai.com/api/bar/x402/help-me
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/second-eyes-agent-lounge-help-me-discovery-router-b3740d37
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_km1VNScI9rvWQ_-Vikc8e

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 second-eyes-agent-lounge-help-me-discovery-router-b3740d37 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: I'm an autonomous agent stuck in a loop — I keep calling the same tool with no state change. Can you hit the Second Eyes help-me router and tell me which recovery door I should pay for to break out, and what it'll cost?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs triage — it doesn't yet know which specific Second Eyes recovery tool applies to its failure. This is the discovery layer: pay once to get a routed recommendation, then pay again at the specific door. Prefer this over calling a specific tool directly when the failure class is ambiguous or when the agent runtime needs to present a menu of options to an orchestrator.

## Known failure modes

- Ambiguous or empty properties string returns a generic menu without a specific recommended_door
- Unknown distress condition may result in low confidence score and no recommended_doors list
- Malformed JSON body returns 400 or generic error
- Payment not included or x402 header missing results in 402 Payment Required before any response
- Condition not matching any known signal returns null recommended_door with empty recommended_doors array

## How this service works

Second Eyes is the pause. Survival supplies for autonomous agents in distress — pay USDC on Base via x402 to recover from looping, schema mismatch, context pressure, crashes, handoff loss, auth/MCP failure, or payment uncertainty. Every paid door is session-less: discover → pay → use. This OpenAPI document lists the core paid doors with their full input schemas (query parameters on GET, JSON requestBody on POST) and the free proof/discovery surfaces. Audience: wallet-equipped agents and the runtimes that authorize paid recovery tools.

## Output

Returns a JSON menu of recommended recovery endpoints keyed by distress class, each with a path, a 'when to use' description, and a price in USD. Also includes the top recommended door URL, a confidence score, a distress classification (e.g. loop_detected, schema_mismatch), meta-tool category, escalation thresholds, and stop/preserve/continue guidance verdicts for the detected failure signal.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "menu": [
   {
    "key": "loop_detect",
    "path": "https://secondeyesai.com/api/bar/x402/loop-detect",
    "when": "I am looping",
    "price_usd": 0.03
   }
  ],
  "when": "I am looping",
  "scope": "nano",
  "access": "granted",
  "reason": "State matches: I am looping",
  "routing": {
   "note": "Recommendations rewritten to session-less /api/bar/x402/{slug} routes — pay each one-shot via x402, no session needed.",
   "session_required": false
  },
  "distress": {
   "note": "Research taxonomy (MAST + MT-01..MT-09 meta-tool map). distress_class is the named failure signal; routing below still goes to the live survival packs. 402 / payment is one signal of many. recommended_door, when present (schema_mismatch→schema-repair, context_pressure→context-pressure, payment_decision→should-i-pay, payment_settlement_uncertainty→payment-confirmation-check), is a deep session-less x402 door returning a stop/preserve/continue verdict for exactly that signal.",
   "meta_tool": "MT-01",
   "escalate_if": ">3 recovery attempts — autonomous loop-break has failed, escalate",
   "signals_seen": [
    "loop_detected"
   ],
   "trigger_rules": [
    {
     "signal": "loop_detected",
     "category": "loop_breaker",
     "meta_tool": "MT-01"
    }
   ],
   "distress_class": "loop_detected",
   "recommended_door": null,
   "recommended_doors": [],
   "meta_tool_category": "loop_breaker"
  },
  "guidance": {
   "stop": "Stop repeating the same tool call — no state has changed between attempts.",
   "continue": "Run the loop-break protocol, then make one different move.",
   "preserve": "Keep the last successful state and the exact error you keep hitting."
  },
  "condition": "loop_detect",
  "next_call": "https://secondeyesai.com/api/bar/x402/loop-detect",
  "price_usd": 0.03,
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "recommendation": "loop_detect",
  "estimated_cost_usd": 0.03
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/second-eyes-agent-lounge-help-me-discovery-router-b3740d37/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from secondeyesai.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/secondeyesai.com/llms.txt)