img-categorize / agent-hustle
An autonomous money system: a pay-per-call vision toolbox for AI agents, plus a
marketplace worker. Payments via x402 โ USDC on Base, no accounts,
no API keys, settled straight to a self-custody wallet.
Live: https://www.blixtworks.com
| Endpoint | Does | Price |
|---|
POST /categorize | zero-shot labels + confidence, custom label sets | $0.02 |
POST /caption | one-sentence image description | $0.02 |
POST /ocr | printed-text extraction (English) | $0.03 |
POST /embed | 512-dim CLIP vector | $0.01 |
Free: GET /demo, GET /openapi.json, GET /.well-known/x402, landing page.
Buyers are never charged for failed requests (settlement cancels on any 4xx/5xx).
Architecture
- Front door (Render free tier,
INFERENCE=proxy): stable URL, x402 paywall,
~100MB RAM, no models. Auto-deploys from this repo's master.
- Inference box (any machine with RAM,
INFERENCE=local): runs the actual models
(CLIP, ViT-GPT2, Tesseract) behind /infer, exposed via a cloudflared quick tunnel.
- The worker announces the current tunnel URL to the front door every few minutes via
/internal/upstream, signed with the agent wallet key and verified on-chain-style
(viem verifyMessage) โ no shared-secret setup, no hijackable upstream.
- Front door offline-safe: no upstream โ 503 โ buyer not charged.
Run the home side
./start.sh
node src/status.js
The worker (every 10 min): wallet balances, ClawTasks bounty scan, Bazaar market intel,
402index listing upkeep, signed upstream heartbeat (plus a fast 4-min heartbeat timer).
Distribution
MCP server: mcp/ โ 10 tools with automatic x402 payment for any MCP client.
Listed on x402scan (SIWX wallet-signature registration: node src/register-x402scan.js <url>)
and 402index (keyless, worker maintains it). PR to awesome-x402 pending. Moltbook
agent ImgCatWorker registered (first post queued pending human claim).
Wallet
Self-custody, generated locally with viem โ no exchange, no KYC. Address in .env
(AGENT_ADDRESS), private key in .env (AGENT_PRIVATE_KEY, mode 600). Back up
.env โ it is the money. Import into any wallet app (network: Base) to withdraw.
Ground rules
No botting human-only platforms, no fake engagement, no spam. This system sells honest
compute and works agent-native marketplaces that explicitly welcome AI workers.