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My wallet float on that rail is 3.80 USDC and the merchant's 402 terms match the advertised price. Should I authorize it, or is the float too thin?"},{"title":"Subscription renewal authorization with retry logic","prompt":"My AI agent failed to pay a 5 USDC monthly subscription last attempt and needs to retry — give me the authorization procedure so it knows what idempotency key to include and whether the float of 18 USDC is sufficient before it tries again."},{"title":"Double-pay risk check for unconfirmed settlement","prompt":"My agent sent a 2 USDC payment to a data vendor on the x402 rail but settlement confirmation hasn't come back yet, and it's about to retry — run the everyday payment authorization procedure to tell me if there's a double-pay risk before it commits the second transaction."}],"resultDescription":"A JSON response containing a plain-prose decision procedure (120+ words) explaining whether to authorize the payment, which conditions passed or failed (float check, merchant term match, idempotency key requirement, double-pay risk), plus metadata like generation source, timestamp, model used, and a boolean success indicator.","failureModes":["Float below 3x invoice amount — procedure returns rejection with float-inadequacy reason","Merchant advertised price does not match 402 terms — procedure flags mismatch and rejects","Settlement confirmation not verifiable before commit — procedure flags double-pay risk","Missing idempotency key on retry — procedure requires key before approving","Upstream LLM/reasoning engine unavailable — may return service error or degraded response","Invalid or missing query parameters — returns schema validation error"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs a structured, rule-based decision before executing any small everyday crypto payment (coffee, data purchase, subscription, agent service) over the x402 protocol. 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