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Building an AI Agent That Shops, Gets Audited, and Pays — On Its Own

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Written for the All Things Agentic Hackathon (Google). Most "autonomous agent" demos stop at reasoning. This one doesn't: it decides it needs a piece of data, compares real prices across multiple third-party providers using the x402 HTTP payment protocol, has its spending decision reviewed by a sec…

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  1. 2026-08-25 21:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Building an AI Agent That Shops, Gets Audited, and Pays — On Its Own

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