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说明与用途

开发者获得了使用 x402 原子支付创建和消费 AI 代理的分步教程，包括 FastAPI、Docker 和 Kubernetes。

问题

Developers need a practical way to expose and consume AI agent services with atomic payment and low latency.

结果

A minimal, production‑ready sentiment‑analysis provider was built, deployed, and consumed with atomic USDC micropayments via x402, demonstrating low‑latency, scalable, and composable agent interactions.

工作流

• 1. Choose a protocol (x402 for stateless RPC).
• 2. Implement provider using FastAPI and x402‑py verifier.
• 3. Define input/output models with Pydantic.
• 4. Add payment_dependency to enforce micropayments.
• 5. Deploy provider as Docker container to Kubernetes or serverless.
• 6. In consumer, discover service URL.
• 7. Build x402‑compatible request header with create_payment_header.
• 8. Send HTTP POST to provider endpoint.
• 9. Handle 402 responses with retry logic.
• 10. Process returned SentimentOut result.

证据

x402 remains the most developer‑friendly for ad‑hoc, one‑off calls because it re‑uses existing HTTP semantics and only requires a minimal payment verifier middleware.

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