PayAgents Developer Guides

The Agentic Economy, Written in Code.

Guides, engineering insights, and tutorials on payments routing, API monetization, and transaction rails built for autonomous software agents.

Featured • MCP Server Aug 22, 2026 • 5 min read

How to Connect PayAgents to Claude Desktop & Other LLMs (Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini) using MCP

Give your AI assistants an autonomous spending wallet. Connect payagents-mcp to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or custom agents built on OpenAI & Gemini to pay for APIs across Lightning & Base USDC with policy guardrails.

npx -y payagents-mcp // Exposes payagents_pay_url, get_balance & get_transaction

PayAgents Engineering • Model Context Protocol

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Self-Custody Aug 5, 2026

What Are Non-Custodial Agent Payments? Direct Settlement Architecture

Understand why zero platform custody matters for API creators, how direct peer-to-peer settlement works on Base USDC & Lightning, and how to set up your addresses in 2 minutes.

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MCP Server Jul 19, 2026

How to Monetize MCP Servers with Micro-Payments

Learn how to configure transaction policies and gate specialized Model Context Protocol tools behind multi-rail micropayments using payagents-mcp middleware.

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Stablecoins & Rails Jul 18, 2026

A Guide to AI Agent Payments: Lightning L402 vs. Stablecoin x402

Compare routing performance, settlement speed, transaction costs, and SDK implementation differences between Lightning L402 and Base stablecoin x402 rails.

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