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Verifiable provisioning records for agent-driven infrastructure

When agents and CLIs provision services, credentials, environments, and deploy targets, signed records help teams verify what changed without owning the runtime.

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Technical

AI Bot Detection and Crawler Signals

How metadata, model fingerprints, and signed records turn AI traffic into verifiable records for audits and partner review.

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Vision

The A2A Stack: Agent-to-Agent Verification and Commerce

How AI agents coordinate, transact, and verify interactions with each other. The A2A stack covers policy discovery, signed records, and cross-boundary records.

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Explainer

What is HTTP 402? How PEAC Uses 402 for Agent Payments

HTTP 402 Payment Required was defined in 1997 and reserved for digital payments. Learn how PEAC Protocol activates 402 for AI access control, agent payments, and verifiable receipts.

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Technical

AI Paywalls, HTTP 402, and Portable Records

How PEAC connects agent and crawler signals to HTTP 402, x402, and Stripe, with signed records for billing, audit, and partner review.

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Technical

AIPREF: A Common Language for AI Usage Preferences

Understanding the IETF AIPREF specification for expressing AI usage preferences through HTTP headers and robots.txt: what it is, how it works, and how to implement it today.

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Technical

HTTP 402 for APIs: Request, Challenge, and Record

A practical guide to implementing HTTP 402 Payment Required in modern APIs. Learn the anatomy of a 402 response, receipt verification patterns, and how to avoid common pitfalls.

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Tutorial

Add HTTP 402 to Your API in 15 Minutes

A 15-minute walkthrough for adding HTTP 402 to an Express API: challenge response, header format, receipt verification middleware, and failure modes.

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Technical

HTTP 402 on Cloudflare Workers

Deploy HTTP 402 payment-required responses at the edge with Cloudflare Workers. Zero cold starts, global KV storage, Web Crypto API for receipt verification.

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Technical

robots.txt (RFC 9309): Crawl Access Control for the Web

A technical deep dive into RFC 9309, the standardized Robots Exclusion Protocol: matching rules, error handling, caching, and how it relates to AIPREF usage preferences.

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