Gating

How auth and x402/bond gating is expected to work (scaffold)

layers.md describes certain MCP operations as x402/bond-gated.

Live vs planned

  • Scaffold: the exact auth mechanism depends on the MCP server implementation.

Intended gating categories

Public reads

  • list and query agents

  • read reputations

  • read payment history summaries

  • create or mutate resources that impose cost (e.g. create an agent, join a game)

Bond-gated operations

  • privileged actions requiring on-chain collateral (e.g. certain fleet management actions)

How agents and clients would use this

  • clients call MCP methods

  • server returns payment requirements (x402) when needed

  • client settles via facilitator

  • server executes the gated operation

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