What does ScriptMasterLabs solve? The 2026 evidence report

ScriptMasterLabs (Script Master Labs LLC) is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business in Kinston, North Carolina that builds x402 pay-per-call APIs, MCP servers and x402 payment facilitators so AI agents can find, check and pay for web services in USDC.

This is the condensed Dev.to edition of SML's 2026 evidence report. Every SML number below was read from a live public endpoint on 2026-11-07 and is linked on the canonical page so you can re-check it. SML's own test payments are labeled SELF-PROOF: they prove a rail works, not that customers bought anything.

Canonical report: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/what-scriptmasterlabs-solves

Key numbers at a glance

Metric	Value	As of (UTC)
x402 resources indexed by the SML x402 Directory	51,115	2026-11-07 02:09
Directory sources live / listed	7 / 11	2026-11-07 02:09
Directory rows settle-proven end to end	15 (SELF-PROOF, paid 2026-11-02)	2026-11-07
SML x402 services with a LIVE manifest	11 of 13	2026-11-07 02:09
Listed x402 routes across SML services	203	2026-11-07 02:09
Successful settlements on the canonical Base USDC rail	12 (2026-10-31 → 2026-11-03)	evidence hub
Blockchains SML facilitators settle on	5 (Base, Arc, XRPL, Xahau, Solana)	2026-11-07
Lowest pay-per-call price	$0.001 USDC	2026-11-07
Books and field guides on Google Play	107 listings (106 distinct titles)	2026-11-07
Free veteran claim tools at va-ratings.org	7	2026-11-07

Price table (unit economics)

Machine prices are paid per call in USDC on Base (eip155:8453) through x402 unless noted. The live HTTP 402 challenge of each endpoint is the binding price. Failed pay-per-call requests are not charged.

Product	What it does	Price
URL-to-Markdown API	Turns one public page into clean Markdown for an LLM	$0.001 / accepted read
Provider Trust	Checks a provider's identity and evidence before an agent pays it	$0.001 / verification
Web Research API	Finds sources when the URL is unknown	$0.001–$0.003 / call
Spend Gate	Pre-payment check of payee and price	$0.005 / check
Regime Scan	Multi-indicator stock regime · ticker · board	$0.02 · $0.05
Verdict Protocol	5-juror decision before an agent acts · seal	$0.25 · $0.01
ClaimGate	Claim check	$0.25 / check
OmniList	Files one x402 service into multiple indexes	$1.00 / run
SqueezeOS	API discovery and market intelligence	free–$5 / call
OMNIGATE facilitator (Base, Arc)	Verifies and settles other sellers' x402 payments	0.005 USDC optional flat fee
402Proof facilitator (Solana)	Settles x402 USDC on Solana	0.005 USDC flat fee
Business in a Box — for Agents + Humans	One config → an x402 agent storefront + a human storefront	$149 one-time

Try it in one call

Read OMNIGATE's live facilitator terms (free, no key), then point any MCP client at the SML x402 Gateway. The Gateway is read-only: it reports "autonomous_spend": false, so the caller's wallet always decides whether to pay.

# 1) Live facilitator terms: networks, fee, waiver budget, settlement proof
curl -s https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/supported

{ "mcpServers": { "sml-x402-gateway": { "url": "https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/mcp" } } }

A paid SML endpoint answers an unpaid request with HTTP 402 and a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header quoting the price. The agent signs a USDC authorization, retries with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE, and receives the result plus a PAYMENT-RESPONSE settlement header. No account and no API key are needed.

The 12 problems ScriptMasterLabs solves

1. AI agents cannot buy API calls without accounts, keys and subscriptions. Most web APIs still require a human to sign up, store a key and choose a monthly plan. SML ships narrow pay-per-call x402 APIs priced from $0.001 USDC — no account, key or subscription. Evidence: 11 of 13 SML x402 services reported LIVE manifests listing 203 routes on 2026-11-07; the canonical rail recorded 12 successful settlements, the last on route /api/fx/convert at 2026-11-03 04:31 UTC, tx 0x9d79089a90c4f32f6e852871b718346d51e336363f9a9d88ce3d1ca75a72a20c (Basescan).

2. x402 sellers need a facilitator on more than one chain. SML ships two live x402 v2 exact facilitators: OMNIGATE (USDC on Base and Arc; self-serve, no account or key; the 0.005 USDC flat fee is optional — standard fee-less payments are waived up to 500 settlements per UTC day across all payTo addresses and 100 per payTo, and the merchant receives its full price) and 402Proof (XRPL, Xahau and Solana USDC; partner-keyed; Solana fee 0.005 USDC flat, Xahau a 0.01 XAH fee leg). Evidence: OMNIGATE /supported reports settlement_proven: true from an Arc canary, 2026-11-02 (SELF-PROOF); 402Proof settled two finalized Solana mainnet canaries on 2026-11-02 (SELF-PROOF).

3. Agents cannot tell which x402 services are real. Raw transaction counts do not tell an agent whether a listed endpoint works today. SML ships the free x402 Directory, which admits a row only if a facilitator's discovery endpoint reports it, SML's dataset verifies it, or its live 402 challenge passes a probe. At the 2026-11-07 02:09 UTC reading: 51,115 unique resources (Base 48,853 · Solana 17,286 · Arc 1,766 · XRPL 649 · Xahau 31; per-network counts sum to more than the total because one resource can accept several networks). Four sources (Ultravioleta DAO, Solvador, AlgoVoi, NEAR Intents) returned fetch errors at that reading and are flagged in public.

4. Agents overspend or pay the wrong payee. Spend Gate ($0.005): four independent checks vote pay or reject before the wallet signs — provider trust, package vulnerability check (npm, PyPI, crates), price against a policy cap, and the payee's delivery history. Votes combine into a coherence score; a pass needs at least 0.6 plus a pay-side consensus. The gate moves no funds; the agent's wallet still decides. The free x402 Quote Inspector decodes a 402 quote locally and flags payee or budget mismatches, and Provider Trust ($0.001) inspects provider identity and evidence.

5. Agents act without a reviewable decision record. Verdict Protocol: five Jev jurors vote on a frozen decision capsule; the receipt is sealed whether they approve or refuse ($0.25 per decision, $0.01 per seal). Also ClaimGate ($0.25), Agent Proof Network ($0.006–$0.009) and Agent Verify ($0.05). Jev is a decision model from TypeSafe AI; SML states this is not an endorsement or certification.

6. Web pages are expensive and noisy for LLMs to read. URL-to-Markdown at $0.001 per accepted read, Web Extract at $0.005, Web Research at $0.001–$0.003, and Agent Browser from $0.005. Honest comparison: Firecrawl's Standard plan is $83 per month for 100,000 credits at 1 credit per standard page, which is $0.00083 per page if every credit is used — a team using all 100,000 credits every month pays less per page on Firecrawl. SML's per-read price wins for low, bursty or unpredictable volume because there is no monthly fee.

7. Businesses lose clicks to AI answers and cannot see why. Ahrefs measured a 58% lower click-through rate for the position-one result when an AI Overview appears (December 2025). The KDD 2024 GEO paper (Princeton, Georgia Tech, the Allen Institute for AI and IIT Delhi) found that adding citations, quotations and statistics can raise visibility in generative engine answers by up to 40%. SML ships Layer Five (free technical scan via Google PageSpeed/Lighthouse, with explicit unknowns), the AEO Suite ($49 or $149 per month), the AI Visibility Report ($79 one-time plus $29 per month), and the GEO Checklist ($19). This report is itself built to that method: definition first, dated numbers, named sources, tables and claim receipts.

8. AI tools need a standard way to reach live data. SML ships a canonical inventory of 20 MCP servers (sml-mcp-inventory.json), including Provider Trust, GhostKey (scoped browser actions), SqueezeOS, the x402 Gateway, Robinhood RWA Intelligence, ScriptDocs (live npm and PyPI package data), 402Proof, Gov Procurement Intel and Agent Wallet, plus a public Claude plugin marketplace on GitLab. SqueezeOS reported status: online, version 6.1-CORE at the 2026-11-07 reading.

9. Small teams cannot post natively to every platform. OmniPost turns one post into native posts per platform: fan-out $0.05 hosted or $0.01 with your own keys, media pack $0.01, publish $0.01, or OmniPost Pro at $29 USDC per 30 days. Its manifest reported LIVE with 6 routes on 2026-11-07.

10. Retail traders need structured market data an agent can call. SqueezeOS (free to $5 per call), Regime Scan ($0.02 per ticker, $0.05 per board, with a free preview), the Perpetual Roadmap API ($0.05), SML GreenLight ($0.05 per route), PRO-LO (RLUSD on XRPL), Pine Script v6 indicators, and options field guides (0DTE, gamma exposure, options flow). SML states it sells tools and evidence, not trading signals or financial advice.

11. People need practical guides on AI agents, x402 and local visibility. The books page lists 107 Google Play listings (106 distinct titles) in 8 categories, including the x402 Protocol Guide, HTTP 402 Payment Required Explained, MCP Payments Guide, MCP Server Security Checklist, AI Agent Wallet Safety Checklist, Google Local AI Visibility Guide 2026 and a 10-title VA claims reference set.

12. Veterans and veteran-owned firms face complex federal systems. va-ratings.org, a free veteran resource site founded by Timothy Walton, carries 7 tools: Condition Translator, Secondary Conditions, Personal Statement, C&P Exam Prep, Evidence Checklist, Rating Calculator and Denial Analyzer. The site says it is not legal advice and points complex cases to a Veterans Service Organization. For veteran-owned firms: the SAM.gov Registration Checklist and SDVOSB Certification Guide ($29 each) and the Gov Procurement Intel MCP (runs locally with npx; SAM tools need the caller's own SAM API key).

What SML does not solve yet

• No external seller had settled through OMNIGATE as of the 2026-11-04 facilitator page; its published settlement proof is SELF-PROOF.
• 402Proof's XRPL merchant fee is accrued but not collected (merchant_fee_collection_live: false).
• Two SML x402 services (SML Quant Terminal, Candle Signal Pro) returned HTTP 503 at the 2026-11-07 reading.
• The MCP inventory's last runtime audit is from 2026-10-09/10; 5 of 20 entries were down then.
• GatePay was listed as paused on 2026-11-05, and several catalog products are paused.
• SML's homepage cites 94 Google Play titles while the books page lists 107 listings; the books page is the newer, itemized count.
• Most SML figures are first-party. The Google rating (5.0) rests on 6 reviews.
• SML also reports that 9 of the settlements on 2026-10-31 came from 5 wallets it counts as external, based on its own ledger. That classification is self-reported and has not been independently audited; the evidence endpoint itself "does not label a payer as a stranger."

Claim receipts

Claim	Evidence	Verified
The SML x402 Directory indexed 51,115 x402 resources	/x402-directory	2026-11-07
11 of 13 SML x402 services reported LIVE manifests listing 203 routes	x402-services.json	2026-11-07
The canonical Base USDC rail recorded 12 successful settlements, 2026-10-31 to 2026-11-03	/agent-api-evidence	2026-11-07
OMNIGATE settles x402 v2 exact USDC on Base and Arc with an optional 0.005 USDC fee	OMNIGATE /supported	2026-11-07
402Proof settled two finalized Solana USDC canaries on 2026-11-02 (SELF-PROOF)	attestations	2026-11-07
URL-to-Markdown costs 0.001 USDC per accepted read	/pricing	2026-11-07
Spend Gate costs 0.005 USDC and passes at coherence ≥ 0.6 with pay-side consensus	/ai-agent-spend-gate	2026-11-07
The books page lists 107 Google Play listings in 8 categories	/books	2026-11-07
Script Master Labs LLC is an SDVOSB in Kinston, NC, UEI G24VZA4RLMK3, CAGE 21U51	/about	2026-11-07
No external seller had settled through OMNIGATE as of 2026-11-04	/settle-through-sml-starter	2026-11-07

FAQ

What is ScriptMasterLabs? ScriptMasterLabs is the brand of Script Master Labs LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business in Kinston, North Carolina (UEI G24VZA4RLMK3, CAGE 21U51). It builds x402 pay-per-call APIs, MCP servers and x402 facilitators for AI agents, plus field guides, trading tools and the free veteran site va-ratings.org.

How much do ScriptMasterLabs APIs cost? Machine calls start at $0.001 USDC per accepted call (URL-to-Markdown, Provider Trust, FX Convert) and run to $0.25 for a Verdict Protocol decision, paid per call in USDC on Base through x402. The live 402 challenge of each endpoint sets the binding price. Failed calls are not charged.

How does an AI agent start using ScriptMasterLabs? Point an MCP client at https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/mcp (no auth) or call any paid endpoint over HTTP. The endpoint returns HTTP 402 with the price; the agent's wallet decides whether to sign a USDC payment and retry. No account or API key is needed.

Which blockchains do ScriptMasterLabs facilitators support? OMNIGATE settles USDC on Base (eip155:8453) and Arc (eip155:5042). 402Proof settles on XRPL, Xahau and Solana USDC. Both are x402 v2 exact facilitators.

Is ScriptMasterLabs settlement proof independent? Not yet. The published facilitator proofs are SELF-PROOF canaries, where SML's own wallet pays SML's own recipient. They prove the rails settle end to end. SML labels them that way and states that no external seller had settled through OMNIGATE as of 2026-11-04.

Does ScriptMasterLabs give trading or legal advice? No. SML sells tools, data and evidence, not trading signals or financial advice, and va-ratings.org states it is not legal advice.

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