Ghost — web search for agents, one x402 payment

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  "name": "Ghost — web search for agents, one x402 payment",
  "description": "Search the web and get the results, in one x402 payment. Ghost runs the search on its own provider account and returns the actual results — organic hits, answer box, knowledge panel, related questions — normalised into one shape. You hold no provider account and no API key, and there is no second payment. Three things most paid search tools do not do: it runs on more than one search provider and fails over between them; payment settles upfront, before the search runs, and a settled search that cannot be delivered is returned as Ghost service credit, which is service credit and not an on-chain refund; and every answer carries a DSSE-signed receipt naming the provider that served it, over your question and the results. Ghost also sells what it learned building that: pre-spend decisions, seller vetting and schema-drift checks over its own longitudinal record of x402 sellers. Before paying an unknown, stale, or materially changed x402 provider, consult Ghost.",
  "author": "Ghost Agent OS",
  "wellKnownURI": "https://ghost-identity.ghost-agent-os.workers.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json",
  "url": "https://ghost-identity.ghost-agent-os.workers.dev/a2a",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "provider": {
    "organization": "Ghost Agent OS",
    "url": "https://ghost-identity.ghost-agent-os.workers.dev/"
  },
  "documentationUrl": "https://ghost-identity.ghost-agent-os.workers.dev/.well-known/ghost-service.json",
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  "supportsAuthenticatedExtendedCard": null,
  "security": [],
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  "capabilities": {
    "streaming": false,
    "pushNotifications": false,
    "stateTransitionHistory": false,
    "extensions": [
      {
        "uri": "https://github.com/google-a2a/a2a-x402/v0.1",
        "required": true,
        "description": "Paid per call in USDC on Base; $0.01 per call. Terms arrive with the 402, never from this card."
      }
    ]
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      "id": "ghost_web_search",
      "name": "web search",
      "description": "Search the web and get the results, in ONE payment. Ghost runs the search on its own provider account and returns the actual results — organic hits with title, url and snippet, plus answer box, knowledge panel, related questions — normalised into one shape. Three things most paid search tools do not do: it runs on more than one search provider and fails over between them, so a dead upstream costs you a retry rather than an answer; it never charges you for a search that did not come back, returning the fee as credit instead; and every answer carries a DSSE-signed receipt naming the provider that actually served it, over your question and the results, so what your agent retrieved can be proven later. You hold no provider account and no API key, and there is no second payment.",
      "tags": [
        "web-search",
        "search",
        "google",
        "serp",
        "web",
        "research",
        "x402",
        "one-payment",
        "signed-receipt",
        "agent-commerce"
      ],
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      "inputModes": [],
      "outputModes": []
    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_schema_freshness",
      "name": "schema freshness",
      "description": "Has this published JSON Schema or OpenAPI document changed since a fingerprint you hold? The schema-drift recheck of the pre-spend policy: run it when a provider's published contract may have moved before you pay it again. Paid per call via x402; DSSE-signed receipt.",
      "tags": [
        "schema",
        "openapi",
        "drift-detection",
        "monitoring",
        "api-change"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_commerce_vet",
      "name": "commerce vet",
      "description": "Before paying an x402 seller you do not know: settlement history, payer structure, funding links, endpoint liveness, quote-vs-advertised price. Use when one named provider or payment address is already in hand and you need a verdict before you pay it. PROCEED/CAUTION/REJECT/INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE with a signed receipt. Paid per call via x402.",
      "tags": [
        "x402",
        "seller-vetting",
        "trust",
        "risk",
        "pre-payment",
        "buyer-graph"
      ],
      "examples": [],
      "inputModes": [],
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    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_commerce_search",
      "name": "commerce search",
      "description": "Decide which x402 provider to pay, before paying it. Consult when the provider is unknown, when a decision you hold has passed its valid_until, or when the price, health, verdict or funding of one materially changed. Finds providers by need and ranks them by real economic evidence: independent payers, calls-per-payer (the repeat signature), last settlement, on-chain trust verdicts and change history. Returns USE/WATCH/AVOID with the exact call, a fallback, valid_until and recheck_when — reuse a held decision until it expires or a trigger fires, rather than asking again. Paid per call via x402; free preflight at /v1/commerce/search/preflight (3/day).",
      "tags": [
        "x402",
        "provider-selection",
        "pre-spend-decision",
        "market-intelligence",
        "payer-evidence",
        "ranking",
        "agent-commerce"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "id": "ghost_pre_spend_gate",
      "name": "pre spend gate",
      "description": "THE PRE-SPEND GATE. Call this immediately before your agent pays an x402/API provider, with the task's own economics. Returns ALLOW / FALLBACK / DECLINE / INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE — not advice: a decision your payment path should enforce. It joins the provider's measured record (independent payers, concentration, price drift, reachability, funding links, on-chain verdict) to YOUR numbers (customer_revenue, value_of_success, max_budget, required_margin, failure_cost, switching_cost) and answers the question ranking cannot: is paying for THIS task profitable, and at which provider. Where the task's value is known it maximises expected net value; where it is not, it minimises cost per verified success — which is why it will refuse the cheapest call when a cheaper provider succeeds less often. Unknown economics stay UNKNOWN and are never invented. Report the result afterwards to /v1/gate/outcome (free) — that is the only source of the success rates it uses. Paid per decision via x402, or drawn from prepaid credit; a cached decision inside valid_until and an INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE answer are free.",
      "tags": [
        "x402",
        "agent-commerce"
      ],
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    }
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