Introducing Aperture: one API key for the agent economy
Autonomous agents need to call models, data, and tools — and settle for them at machine speed. Aperture unifies the capability layer and the settlement layer behind a single key.
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Notes from the agent economy
Product updates, engineering deep-dives, and field notes on building the rails for autonomous agents.
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What is the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP)?
MPP is an open, HTTP-based standard that lets machines pay machines across multiple payment methods through one universal protocol layer. Here's how it works.
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HTTP 402 is finally useful: how agents pay per call
The 402 status code sat dormant for 25 years. Autonomous agents are the client it was waiting for. A practical look at the per-call payment flow.
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Designing budgets and guardrails for autonomous agents
Giving an agent a wallet is easy. Giving it a wallet you can sleep next to is the hard part. Patterns for spend caps, rate limits, and alerts.
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Foundry: production-ready agents, hosted
Prototyping an agent is a weekend. Running one in production is a different job. Foundry deploys preconfigured agent instances with monitoring and billing built in.
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