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Quickstart for agents

Give an agent its own wallet and a hard budget. Then let it buy what it needs, one request at a time.

An agent that can pay can work on its own. Four steps get it there, and you keep control the whole way.

1. Create an Agent Wallet

Each agent gets its own wallet, funded from your main wallet and kept apart from it. See Agent Wallet.

2. Set a mandate

Before the agent spends anything, set:

  • a daily budget,
  • a per-call cap,
  • an allowlist of sellers it may pay.

The chain enforces all three. See Mandates.

3. Make paid calls

ts
import { createFetch } from "@nouspay/fetch";

const pay = createFetch({ signer: agentWallet });

// Handles 402 automatically: checks the mandate, pays, retries.
const res = await pay("https://seller.example/forecast?symbol=NVDA");
const forecast = await res.json();

Over the cap or off the allowlist, the call fails before anything is signed.

4. Or use MCP

Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients join without writing code. See MCP native.

5. Keep a hand on the leash