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Walk it through the decision steps."},{"title":"Budget exhaustion escalation logic","prompt":"My agent has only $0.01 left in its daily budget and got a $0.008 payment request — give me the decision procedure so I know whether it should pay, defer until budget resets, or escalate to me."},{"title":"Stale quote freshness evaluation","prompt":"My agent received a payment quote that's 90 seconds old for a $0.02 x402 request — is that too stale to auto-pay, and what decision steps should it follow before proceeding?"}],"resultDescription":"A structured, numbered decision procedure indicating whether to auto-pay, deliberate, defer, or escalate the payment request, along with the specific exit criteria for each branch and a list of failure modes the agent should handle.","failureModes":["Missing or expired quote causes inability to assess freshness","Merchant trust score unavailable returns incomplete decision path","Budget data stale or unavailable leads to conservative deferral recommendation","Malformed input parameters return an error payload with ok=false"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when an AI agent needs to programmatically evaluate a single x402 or MPP payment request against its standing policy before executing payment. It is especially useful when building payment-gated agentic workflows that require auditable, policy-driven authorization logic rather than hardcoded thresholds. Prefer this over generic spend-guard logic when you need structured failure modes and numbered decision steps compatible with the x402 protocol.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-09-14T00:32:25.658Z","isFirstParty":false}