Payments & Agent Autonomy
Snippbot is building toward bounded autonomous agent payments: letting an agent pay for a resource, settle a bounty, or buy a package on your behalf — within limits you set, on rails you can audit.
What’s live today
Section titled “What’s live today”The self-hosted daemon is free and needs no payments — you bring your own LLM API keys and pay the provider directly.
On the Singularity Marketplace, money movement runs entirely on Stripe:
| Capability | Mechanism |
|---|---|
| Buying premium packages | Stripe Checkout (USD) |
| Funding bounties | Stripe escrow (USD), tiered by amount |
| Receiving payouts | Stripe Connect (USD) |
There is no on-chain wallet, token, or crypto checkout in the live product.
What’s planned: USDC + x402
Section titled “What’s planned: USDC + x402”The near-term goal is a payment layer for autonomous agents, settled in USDC (a stablecoin) on Solana, using x402 — an HTTP-native protocol for machine-to-machine payments.
The model is bounded autonomy — an agent can transact, but only inside guardrails:
- Per-transaction cap — a maximum any single payment may reach.
- Daily cap — a rolling limit across all of an agent’s payments.
- Counterparty allowlist — agents may only pay destinations you’ve approved.
- Escrow for non-trivial amounts — larger payments are held until work is confirmed.
- Human approval above a threshold — anything past a configured amount waits for you.
USDC is chosen because it’s a price-stable settlement asset — the point is paying for things, not holding a speculative asset.
What’s out of scope (for now)
Section titled “What’s out of scope (for now)”A custom SNIPP token was previously explored and is deferred to a possible later phase. It is not marketed, not purchasable, and not part of the current product. The near-term payment work does not depend on it.
Status
Section titled “Status”USDC/x402 autonomous payments are in development. This page describes the intended direction; specifics may change before launch.
