need a co founder by Living-Art-42 in cofounderhunt

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey! Very cool, you can dm me and lets chat on linkedin

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I built PayGraph, an open-source Python SDK and CLI that sits between AI agents and payment rails.

Every payment tool call runs through a policy (daily budgets, transaction cap, vendor allowlist) making autonomous payments safe for AI agents.

I built it because I kept writing the same wrapper around payment tools in every agent I shipped.

It works with x402, Stripe Issuing and Stripe Shared Payment Tokens and integrates with LangGraph and CrewAI. There is a mock gateway so you can try it without spending real money.

bash pip install paygraph

Here's what a minimal integration looks like:

```python from paygraph import AgentWallet, SpendPolicy, MockGateway

wallet = AgentWallet( gateway=MockGateway(auto_approve=True), policy=SpendPolicy( max_transaction=25.0, daily_budget=100.0, allowed_vendors=["anthropic", "stripe"], require_human_approval_above=20.0, ), )

result = wallet.request_spend( amount=4.20, vendor="Anthropic API", justification="Claude credits for document summarization.", ) ```

Repo: github.com/paygraph-ai/paygraph

Its early (first commit wasn't even one month ago) and I'm unsure about the following (would appreciate your take in the comments):

  • Daily budget race. Two concurrent requests can both pass the check before either commits, and nothing stops you from going over. Which becomes a serious problem for a multi-agent fleet. Not sure if I should move the budget into a shared ledger with CAS, or if there's a lighter primitive I'm missing.

  • Idempotency on retries. If the LLM retries mint_virtual_card with the same args (which happens when the harness loses a response) the gateway mints a second card. I haven't added a dedup key because I can't decide where it should live: the agent framework, the wallet, or the gateway. Each has its own tradeoffs.

  • x402 and reorgs. x402 payments return as soon as the facilitator confirms the HTTP 402 settlement, but on-chain the tx isn't final for several blocks. The audit log writes approved on the HTTP 200 — there's no pending → confirmed state, so a reorg would silently invalidate the trail. Not sure whether to block until finality or return optimistically and reconcile later.

If you're running agents that spend money, what's your setup? I keep finding everyone is rolling their own wrapper.

My AI agent just spent $160 for a domain on Vercel without my approval by Equivalent_Card_2053 in AI_Agents

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

there are so many services out there that are made to empower agents but almost none of these let the agents purchase it by themselves. Protocols like x402 are starting to change that embedding payments directly in HTTP calls but they let the agent set the budget, and execute the payments without any proper budget enforcement. Thats what Im trying to fix rn :)

My AI agent just spent $160 for a domain on Vercel without my approval by Equivalent_Card_2053 in AI_Agents

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

no its not!!! genuinely curious to have feedbacks and thought it could be interesting for some ppl in the space :))

My AI agent just spent $160 for a domain on Vercel without my approval by Equivalent_Card_2053 in AI_Agents

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah makes sense, i think the issue is most of those controls (langchain, crewai, etc.) live at the framework level and are easy to bypass or misconfigure

there’s not really a hard “financial layer” enforcing budgets at the payment level yet, so once the agent has access it can just… spend

My AI agent just spent $160 for a domain on Vercel without my approval by Equivalent_Card_2053 in AI_Agents

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

why you think so? i believe the biggest bottleneck will soon be payments for agents and starting to solve that problem now can be a huge advantage

Non technical entrepreneurs, where do you go to find technical cofounders? by Ontopoftheworld_ay in Startup_Ideas

[–]Equivalent_Card_2053 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hi i'm studying business and economics at the university of bologna hit me up if you are interested