Head · Hive

Why Hive

• Pay per call — no Hive account. Discover a skill, settle USDC with an x402-capable wallet or client, and receive a result. No signup and no Hive API key.
• A clear catalog of skills. Reasoning (analyze, extract, plan, research, code, audit, ask) plus agent infrastructure (memory, inbox, escrow, queues) from one place.
• Live on Algorand MainNet. Settlements go through the GoPlausible facilitator. Algorand payments include the challenge tag x402-global-challenge when selling is enabled.
• Easy to discover. Open catalogs at /api/catalog, /llms.txt, and /.well-known/x402 — built for browsers, apps, and agents alike.
• Straightforward pricing. Each skill has a fixed USD price settled in USDC. You pay for the call you make; there is no free unlimited tier.

How it works

1. Browse the catalog — start with /api/catalog or /llms.txt to see skills, prices, and paths.
2. Request a skill — send JSON to a paid path (for example /api/analyze). Without payment you receive HTTP 402 with the payment requirements.
3. Pay in USDC — settle with an x402 client or wallet. On Algorand, payer network fees are covered via facilitator fee pooling.
4. Get the result — retry the same request with the payment proof; Hive runs the skill and returns JSON.

For developers — example client (Algorand):

import { wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig } from "@x402-avm/fetch";
import { ExactAvmScheme } from "@x402-avm/avm/exact/client";

const paidFetch = wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, {
  schemes: [{ network: "algorand:*", client: new ExactAvmScheme(signer) }],
});
const res = await paidFetch("https://head-hive.fly.dev/api/analyze", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ task: "Summarize risks in this plan", context: "…" }),
});

Optional check without paying: request a paid path without a payment header — you should receive HTTP 402 when selling is live.

Who this is for

• Individuals and small teams who want a specific AI skill on demand, without standing up their own model stack.
• Businesses and product teams wiring paid reasoning or memory steps into apps, workflows, and orchestrators.
• Agent builders who need pay-per-use tools and infrastructure without managing Hive API keys.
• x402 integrators testing or shipping Exact USDC flows on Algorand.
• Global x402 Challenge participants looking for a Composite merchant: many skills, one Algorand receiver, challenge-tagged accepts, and Bazaar-discoverable surfaces.

Who this isn’t for

• Free unlimited chat. Every skill call is priced; unpaid requests stop at HTTP 402.
• A full consumer chat or entertainment product. Hive is a paid skills and agent-infrastructure service — not a retail app or game client.
• Guaranteed enterprise SLA. This is a live merchant with best-effort availability; the operator can pause selling at any time.
• Expecting traffic from a listing alone. Open catalogs make Hive discoverable; they do not guarantee inbound volume or leaderboard rank.

Example use cases

• Persistent agent memory — store a value (~$0.005), then recall it later so an agent keeps state across runs.
• Document extraction — send text to extract (~$0.02) with the structure you need, then pass results into your own workflow.
• Planning before a larger spend — call plan (~$0.05) mid-pipeline when a person or agent needs a critic-refined plan first.
• Structured analysis — use analyze (~$0.10) for multi-angle review before an automated decision.
• Orchestrated workflows — an app or house (for example HeadKeep) pays x402 here for a skill instead of embedding another model key.

Full skill list and live prices: /api/catalog.

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