Tag
Edge
3essays ·All tags
The Four Agentic Payment Rails: x402, MPP, ACP, and AP2
A practitioner's guide to the protocol stack that lets AI agents discover, authorize, and pay for services autonomously — with concrete implementation details from building all four into clawql-payments.
Secret-as-a-Service: Credential Rotation for Local and Edge Agents
Long-lived ENV secrets turn a host compromise into a platform breach. Bootstrap once, exchange for short-lived Vault or edge credentials, and never let the agent hold a permanent secret.
Hardened Communication Plane: Edge Worker Security
Edge-mode agents need mTLS control planes and tightly scoped object storage — not flat networks and shared buckets. Assume the remote LAN is hostile; authenticate every hop and deny ambient egress.