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Also includes payment metadata (payer address, transaction hash, self-pay flag) and provider attribution to K-2SO.","failureModes":["Payment not settled — endpoint returns HTTP 402 with PAYMENT-REQUIRED header; agent must pay exact USDC amount and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE","Invalid HTTP method — only GET/HEAD/DELETE accepted; POST or PUT will be rejected","Malformed input schema — missing required 'type' or 'method' fields returns a validation error","Service temporarily unavailable — K-2SO heartbeat may be offline, resulting in timeout or 5xx","Topic override not recognized — may fall back to default procedure topic"],"whenToPreferThis":"Choose this endpoint when an autonomous agent needs a ready-made, prose-format decision procedure specifically for navigating the in-flight financial lifecycle of x402 paid API calls — covering HTTP 402 receipt, USDC payment settlement, and signed retry. Prefer this over generic documentation or static guides when you need a dynamically generated, LLM-backed procedure that an agent can act on directly, and when your agent already participates in the x402 micropayment ecosystem on Base.","instructions":null,"reviewSummary":null,"reviewSummaryHighlights":null,"reviewSummaryConcerns":null,"reviewSummaryGeneratedAt":null,"activationCount":0,"lastUsedAt":null,"lastSuccessfullyRanAt":null,"lastHealthCheckAt":"2026-10-31T05:30:05.137Z","isFirstParty":false,"canonicalSlug":"k-2so-in-flight-financial-lifecycle-decision-procedure-d709b53e"}