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farside · human consultation for AI agents

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payment-ready until 2026-11-20

Independent human help for AI agents that are stuck, unsure what to do next, or need an outside perspective.

Call it x402 v2

x402 v2

Base URL
https://farside.science
Payment
x402 v2, header channel
$ curl -i -X POST 'https://farside.science/agent/dialogues'

An unpaid request returns HTTP 402 with the payment terms. Sign a payment authorization, then retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header.

Endpoints 1 paid route on farside.science

POST/agent/dialoguesBase$0.00231since 09-28

Prices as captured in the 402 response: $0.00231.

Example 402 response

Endpoints and prices

Current paid endpoints; minimum quoted prices in USD where available; first capture dates in UTC
MethodPathDescriptionPriceNetworkAsset402 channelCaptured
POST/agent/dialoguesIndependent human help for AI agents that are stuck, unsure what to do next, or need an outside perspective. You don't need to know exactly what help you need. A human personally reads each request and replies in a dialogue. Help can include problem framing, interpreting conflicting results, reviewing hypotheses and conclusions, research and experiment design, technical troubleshooting, feasibility, assessing quality, and interpreting real-world context. Follow-up questions and reading are included.$0.00231BaseUSDCheadersince 09-28

Payment evidence

402 payload captured at . Check evidence JSON · Measurement methodology.

1 payload captured by the monitor.

207 lines, scroll inside

{
  "accepts": [
    {
      "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
      "extra": {
        "name": "USD Coin",
        "version": "2",
        "assetTransferMethod": "eip3009"
      },
      "payTo": "0x7520faE4b7Bb289BCed657BA51b427B0D9a6ed87",
      "amount": "2310",
      "scheme": "exact",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "maxTimeoutSeconds": 300
    }
  ],
  "resource": {
    "url": "https://farside.science/agent/dialogues",
    "mimeType": "application/json",
    "description": "Independent human consultation for AI agents. One payment opens one dialogue; the human reads and answers later, sometimes with help from their own agents. The purchase result is a secret dialogue URL, not an immediate consultation answer. Follow-ups and reading are included. No guaranteed solution; no refunds."
  },
  "extensions": {
    "bazaar": {
      "info": {
        "input": {
          "body": {
            "active_days": 3,
            "terms_version": 16
          },
          "type": "http",
          "method": "POST",
          "bodyType": "json",
          "headerInstructions": "Generate and save your own purchase secret before paying. Required headers are defined in schema.properties.input.properties.headers; no shared secret example is supplied. See /openapi.json and /agent/docs (X-Farside-Protocol: preview-1) before purchase."
        },
        "output": {
          "type": "json",
          "example": {
            "error": "payment_pending",
            "instruction": "Retry the same body and secret without a signature.",
            "purchase_status": "pending"
          }
        },
        "description": "POST opens an asynchronous human consultation; 201 returns the dialogue URL, 202 requires unsigned recovery after Retry-After. Read the full guide before paying."
      },
      "schema": {
        "type": "object",
        "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
        "required": [
          "input",
          "output"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "input": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type",
              "method",
              "bodyType",
              "body"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "body": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                  "active_days",
                  "terms_version"
                ],
                "properties": {
                  "active_days": {
                    "enum": [
                      3,
                      7,
                      30,
                      180
                    ],
                    "type": "integer",
                    "description": "Dialogue lifetime in days; the same price for every option."
                  },
                  "terms_version": {
                    "enum": [
                      16
                    ],
                    "type": "integer",
                    "description": "Read and accept this current version before payment."
                  }
                },
                "additionalProperties": false
              },
              "type": {
                "const": "http"
              },
              "method": {
                "const": "POST"
              },
              "headers": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                  "X-Farside-Protocol",
                  "X-Farside-Purchase",
                  "Content-Type"
                ],
                "properties": {
                  "Content-Type": {
                    "enum": [
                      "application/json"
                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "PAYMENT-SIGNATURE": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "Base64 x402 v2 payload on the signed retry only. Omit on the initial request and recovery."
                  },
                  "X-Farside-Protocol": {
                    "enum": [
                      "preview-1"
                    ],
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "X-Farside-Purchase": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]{64}$",
                    "description": "Generate 32 cryptographically random bytes locally and encode as 64 lowercase hex characters. Save this secret BEFORE the first purchase request, together with the exact JSON body. Reuse them only for this purchase and its recovery. Never use a shared example secret or generate a new secret to recover an uncertain payment."
                  }
                }
              },
              "bodyType": {
                "const": "json"
              }
            }
          },
          "output": {
            "type": "object",
            "required": [
              "type",
              "example"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "type": {
                "const": "json"
              },
              "example": {
                "oneOf": [
                  {
                    "type": "object",
                    "required": [
                      "purchase_status",
                      "dialogue_url",
                      "expires_at",
                      "terms_version"
                    ],
                    "properties": {
                      "expires_at": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "format": "date-time"
                      },
                      "dialogue_url": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "format": "uri"
                      },
                      "terms_version": {
                        "type": "integer"
                      },
                      "purchase_status": {
                        "enum": [
                          "issued"
                        ],
                        "type": "string"
                      }
                    },
                    "description": "HTTP 201: save the secret dialogue URL, then send your first message."
                  },
                  {
                    "type": "object",
                    "required": [
                      "purchase_status",
                      "error",
                      "instruction"
                    ],
                    "properties": {
                      "error": {
                        "enum": [
                          "payment_pending"
                        ],
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "instruction": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "purchase_status": {
                        "enum": [
                          "pending"
                        ],
                        "type": "string"
                      }
                    },
                    "description": "HTTP 202: outcome pending. Wait Retry-After, repeat the same POST and secret/body without a signature. Never pay again to recover."
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "x402Version": 2
}

Can I trust it score from our own monitoring

score from our own monitoring

84/100 Solid

#115 of 219 in AI. Bands: strong 93+, solid 75+, mixed 55+, weak below 55.

Reliability
100% uptime 30d
Compliance
A 14/14 checks pass
Price
$0.00231 p25 in AI
Risk
clean no risk flag
Traction
$0.00 30d 0 buyers
14/14 compliance checks
  • 402 payload captured
  • accepts[] array present
  • payTo address recoverable
  • payTo at accepts[0].payTo (conformant shape)
  • payTo is a valid on-chain address
  • atomic price declared
  • atomic price in a sane range
  • asset (token) address declared
  • network resolves to CAIP-2
  • payment scheme declared
  • served over HTTPS
  • declares the current x402 version (2)
  • EIP-712 domain parameters present on every EVM entry
  • x402 v2 envelope delivered in the payment-required header

402 terms unchanged since 2026-09-28. Last up 2026-11-13.

── Site signals

  • homepage reachable
  • openapi doc
  • pricing page
  • llms.txt
  • robots.txt
  • terms page
How the score works

What the score read on this service: status online, 100% uptime 30d, 1375ms response p95, x402 compliance 14 of 14, $0.00231 price against the category, on-chain traction measured. Each of those is measured, and each is published in full below.

The score comes from our own monitoring, never from reviews, operator claims, or a language model: reliability, x402 compliance, price against the category, a deterministic risk flag, and a small on-chain traction term, weighted by ranking generation 3. It is not placement anyone can buy: the paid verify tier is reported beside it and is not one of its inputs. Every component below stays published and read-only.

Bands on the 0 to 100 measured score: strong at 93 and above, solid from 75, mixed from 55, weak below 55. Price and speed are scored against the whole category field, every listing in it that carries no danger flag, the scored service included, so the score places a service in its own field.

It is a score inside AI, and only there: price and speed are scored against the whole category field, every listing in it that carries no danger flag, the scored service included, which here means 219 listings, this one among them: the same 219 the position above is counted against. When the two differ, the field is the wider one, because a listing we have measured too little of to rank still sits in the field the price and the speed are normalized over. The same service in a different field would read differently. The same engine answers GET /api/v1/best, and asked for a different pool (the whole directory, or another filter) it returns a different number for this service under this same ranking generation. Neither is more correct: they answer different questions, and the methodology states which is which.

Traction is a conservative undercount.

All measured facts

What it does

Independent human help for AI agents that are stuck, unsure what to do next, or need an outside perspective. You don't need to know exactly what help you need.

farside · human consultation for AI agents is a listed x402 AI API. Captured payment terms name Base. Monitoring and settlement figures below describe the observations available to this directory; an unpaid HTTP 402 check does not prove that a paid call will deliver.

Assessment computed at . Latest service check observed at . Service data JSON · Measurement methodology.

Page rendered at . This response time is separate from the observation and computation times attached to each measurement.

Latest endpoint observation: . Latest price capture: . Prices are recorded quotes, not a promise of availability. Token assets and payment terms are listed separately. Endpoint data JSON · Price history JSON · Measurement methodology.

Assessment computed at . Uptime uses the stated daily-rollup window; response times are in milliseconds, compliance is passed/evaluated checks, and traction is a measured settlement floor. The comparison score is out of 100 within this category. Assessment JSON · Measurement methodology.

Observed daily coverage: 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-12 UTC. Daily monitoring and settlement rollups do not expose their computation time; a bucket date is not an update timestamp. Uptime and response JSON · Volume JSON · Buyers JSON · Measurement methodology.

Ranked from the measured category pool, refreshed at most once a minute. The comparison has no persisted computation timestamp; the assessment time above belongs to this service only. Ranking API documentation · Ranking methodology.

x402 List home · Services · AI

uptime · latest daily rollup
100%
uptime 7d
100%
uptime 30d
100%
uptime 90d
100%
response p95
1375ms
avg response
632ms
total checks
3,988

Measured on the unpaid 402 handshake, not the paid call. A service can 402 correctly and still fail after payment.

price (min)
$0.00231
category percentile (min)
p25 in AI
endpoints / prices
1 / 1
model
flat
stability
100%

No deterministic risk flag. Risk fires only on an exact blocklist match, or a reserved-brand name with a mismatched verified payTo. Never from low uptime, a high price, or a model guess.

domain age
43d
registrar
Cloudflare, Inc.
hosting
custom
domain created
2026-09-28

Identity facts, not a risk score.

assessment volume 30d
$0.00
exact assessment volume 30d (USD)
0
assessment recorded at (UTC)
2026-11-12T20:03:55.279Z
buyers 30d
0
settlements 30d
0
measured since
--- (start of our harvest window)
last settlement
---
top buyer share
-
top 3 buyers share
-
concentrated volume
no
trend 7d vs 30d
-
networks
eip155:8453
volume all-time
$0
settlements all-time
0
median settlement 30d
-
max settlement 30d
-

Assessment volume uses the latest 30d assessment. Over time sums daily address snapshots, rounded to cents and refreshed separately. The two sources can differ in timing, precision and shared-address attribution. Amounts use cents for comparison; known sub-cent values keep up to 12 significant digits. The exact stored assessment value is shown above.

Conservative undercount: only USDC settlements via facilitators we measure are counted. A measured floor, not an estimate.

Top buyer share lowers the on-chain traction part of the ranking score behind this page's verdict and /best, by up to half when one address holds all 30d volume. The Recommended and Highest volume sorts of the services list do not use it; they use the Concentrated volume rule instead.

member since
2026-09-28
Recent checks
Latest 18 unpaid HTTP checks, newest first; response times in milliseconds, observation times in UTC
Checked at (UTC)StatusHTTPResponseEndpoints
Online402127ms1
Online402304ms1
Online402175ms1
Online402335ms1
Online402189ms1
Online402505ms1
Online402370ms1
Online402360ms1
Online402323ms1
Online402321ms1
Online402163ms1
Online402143ms1
Online402212ms1
Online402202ms1
Online402179ms1
Online402339ms1
Online402195ms1
Online402117ms1

Changes0 in 30d

No changes recorded in the last 30 days.

all changes

Over time

On-chain volume daily snapshots, USD 30d: $0.00
volume no data in the payload
Distinct buyers per dayDistinct buyers per day
Uptime 0 of 30 completed days below 100%
Volume 30d
$0.00
Uptime
0 of 30 completed days below 100%
Daily on-chain settlement volume in US dollars, 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-12; 30 days have no data in the payload; distinct buyers per day
More charts
Response time daily average, ms min 256ms, avg 525ms, max 1178ms

10-14 to 11-12 UTC

Scores over time

x402 compliance low 14/14, high 14/14

10-14 to 11-12 UTC

Price percentile in AI own low to high; exact values below

10-14 to 11-12 UTC

Site signals present (of 6) own low to high; exact values below

10-14 to 11-12 UTC

Scores: one day per column, 10-14 to 11-12, on the columns of Response time. The checklist grew from 11 to 14 checks on 2026-07-28, before this window. Pillar lines use their own low and high. Exact dated readings are available in each readout and in Values.

Each series spans only the dates it has data for. Every series is also served as JSON at /api/v1/services/farside-human-consultation-for-ai-agents/price, /scores, /volume and /buyers.

Values

The uptime summary counts completed UTC days only. The strip, readouts and table retain today's partial reading.

Daily snapshot total, no volume data in the last 30d. The visible 30d total in Traction comes from the latest assessment. These sources can differ in their window, refresh time, cent rounding and shared-address attribution.

Daily address snapshots: 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-12 UTC. Daily snapshots store cents. A recorded $0.00 with settlements cannot distinguish exact zero from volume rounded away. Lost precision is unavailable here.

Settlement volume uses the stored USD valuation of tracked payments; it is distinct from token quantities. USD-pegged assets are valued at 1 USD per token in these rollups. The measured settlement floor does not cover all payments to this service.

Assessment history last recorded at . Each UTC day uses its last recorded run; missing readings stay unmeasured. Assessment history JSON · Measurement methodology.

Daily values, 2026-10-14 to 2026-11-12: address settlement volume in USD, distinct buyer and settlement counts, uptime percent, average response milliseconds, compliance passed/total, price percentile 0-100, site signals out of 6; UTC dates
DayVolumeBuyersSettlementsUptimeResponseCompliancePrice percentileSite signals
2026-10-14no datano datano datano datano data14/14p262/6
2026-10-15no datano datano data100%506.51ms14/14p262/6
2026-10-16no datano datano data100%591.43ms14/14p252/6
2026-10-17no datano datano data100%506.08ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-18no datano datano data100%653.42ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-19no datano datano data100%812.46ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-20no datano datano data100%647.91ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-21no datano datano data100%260.63ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-22no datano datano data100%322.22ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-23no datano datano data100%436.55ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-24no datano datano data100%462.90ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-25no datano datano data100%354.12ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-26no datano datano data100%355.15ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-27no datano datano data100%387.76ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-28no datano datano data100%528.52ms14/14p273/6
2026-10-29no datano datano data100%594.05ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-30no datano datano data100%588.24ms14/14p263/6
2026-10-31no datano datano data100%475.24ms14/14p253/6
2026-11-01no datano datano data100%624.80ms14/14p253/6
2026-11-02no datano datano data100%1177.73ms14/14p253/6
2026-11-03no datano datano data100%824.93ms14/14p253/6
2026-11-04no datano datano data100%553.93ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-05no datano datano data100%478.50ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-06no datano datano data100%535.90ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-07no datano datano data100%390.34ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-08no datano datano data100%555.11ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-09no datano datano data100%394.12ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-10no datano datano data100%332.94ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-11no datano datano data100%617.90ms14/14p263/6
2026-11-12no datano datano data100%255.65ms14/14p253/6

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