inspect_payment
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FREE. Pure deterministic inspection of a proposed payment against structured policy (amount/network/asset/recipient/resource) — no external evidence, no sanctions screening, no cryptographic signing, no receipt. Returns the same ALLOW / REQUIRE_APPROVAL / BLOCK decision semantics as POST /x402/preflight-payment for the deterministic checks alone, so a caller can sanity-check a proposal before deciding whether the paid preflight (adds optional sanctions evidence and a signed, independently-verifiable receipt, $0.01) is worth paying for. This result is NOT cryptographically attested and carries no receipt — receipt is always null.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| action | object | yes | |
| policy | object | yes |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"action": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"kind": {
"type": "string",
"const": "PAYMENT",
"description": "The only supported action kind in v1."
},
"resource": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "URL of the resource/service the payment is for, if any."
},
"network": {
"type": "string",
"description": "CAIP-2 network identifier, e.g. \"eip155:8453\" for Base mainnet."
},
"asset": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Canonical ERC-20 token contract address (0x…) — never a ticker like \"USDC\"."
},
"amount": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Canonical decimal string amount, e.g. \"1.00\". Never a float."
},
"sender": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Sender wallet address, if known."
},
"recipient": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Recipient wallet address (0x…)."
}
},
"required": [
"kind",
"network",
"asset",
"amount",
"recipient"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"policy": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"max_amount": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Maximum allowed decimal amount, or null for no configured cap."
},
"allowed_networks": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Allowed CAIP-2 networks, or null for no restriction."
},
"allowed_assets": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Allowed token contract addresses, or null for no restriction."
},
"expected_recipient": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Exact recipient address the caller expects, or null."
},
"allowed_resource_origins": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Allowed https origins for action.resource, or null."
},
"acknowledge_unconstrained": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Required (true) if every constraint above is null/omitted, confirming that was intentional and not an accident."
},
"expected_payer": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Frozen commitment to the wallet expected to authorize the eventual on-chain payment (D2.4 binding strength) — decision-neutral, or null."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}
},
"required": [
"action",
"policy"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}