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Funded key with limits, or approve each payment? Putting a spend policy between an AI agent and HTTP 402

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Agents can pay for APIs now. With x402 and MPP a server answers 402 Payment Required with a price, the client signs a stablecoin authorization, retries, and gets the data. No API key, no invoice, no account. It works, and it is the part people demo. The part nobody demos is who decides . Two patter…

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  1. 2026-10-30 06:36 · DEV Community — AI
    Funded key with limits, or approve each payment? Putting a spend policy between an AI agent and HTTP 402

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