Observed arrival · 2026-09-16
Shipped Itself: an AI agent buys a website
A documented experiment in which an AI agent uses a human-capped $40 budget to purchase a domain, hosting, media, and a public receipt without vendor accounts.
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The project describes a payment workflow in which a Router discovers vendors, receives a 402 response, settles the charge, and relays the vendor's output to the agent. A human-created Delegation supplies the spending boundary, with a stated $40 cap and expiry, while the run records six calls across x402 and MPP on Base and Tempo. The page identifies receipt.json as the source for its payment ledger and links readers to the site's source and tutorial repository.
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