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shinydapps

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About shinydapps

Building l402-kit – Bitcoin Lightning payments for APIs and AI agents. github.com/ShinyDapps/l402-kit

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    The missing piece in this stack: the agent spending its own money autonomously. Buying a domain requires a payment method — today that's a human credit card pre-provisioned somewhe…

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    Comment #48063355

    Happy to share resources if useful — l402-kit handles exactly this for agent-accessible APIs: https://github.com/ShinyDapps/l402-kit

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    Comment #48022371

    Interesting — how does the agent authenticate to paid/protected endpoints? This is the piece most agent UX tools skip. HTTP 402 + macaroon tokens handle this natively without API k…

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    Comment #48022361

    One underrated blocker: agents can't pay for things. Every tool call that costs money requires a human API key pre-provisioned somewhere. L402 (HTTP 402 + Lightning) was designed e…

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