# AgentOps.ai x402 Paid-API Telemetry Contribution Draft

Status: local draft only. No upstream branch, pull request, issue comment, or external post has been opened from this file.

## Why This Exists

AgentOps.ai is an existing open-source agent monitoring project at `https://github.com/AgentOps-AI/agentops`. Agent Payment Ledger is not affiliated with AgentOps.ai.

The useful contribution path is not to reuse their brand. It is to contribute a small docs/example patch that helps AgentOps.ai users observe paid agent calls. The proposed slice is an x402 paid-API telemetry example showing how an agent run can record:

- the paid endpoint requested
- the approval decision before spending
- the x402 verify/settle phase, amount, currency, and provider
- the tool outcome and retry/error status
- a redacted receipt or receipt hash, never a secret

Local preflight on 2026-05-21 found no `x402` references in `AgentOps-AI/agentops`, so this would be additive if the upstream maintainers want the example.

## Proposed Upstream Patch

Working title:

```text
docs/examples: add x402 paid API telemetry example
```

Likely location:

```text
examples/x402_paid_api/
```

Draft README structure:

```text
# x402 Paid API Telemetry

This example records an agent call to a paid API as normal AgentOps telemetry:
approval requested, payment verification, settlement, tool result, and final status.

It does not include wallet keys, bearer tokens, customer data, or live payment credentials.
```

Sketch only, pending exact upstream SDK review:

```python
import agentops

agentops.init()

session = agentops.start_session(tags=["x402", "paid-api"])

try:
    # 1. Ask for approval before a paid enrichment call.
    # 2. Call the paid endpoint through the app's x402 client.
    # 3. Record amount, currency, provider, phase, status, and a redacted receipt id.
    # 4. End the session with success or error.
    pass
finally:
    session.end_session("Success")
```

The real patch should use AgentOps.ai's current example style and public SDK APIs instead of this placeholder.

## Acceptance Checklist Before Any Upstream PR

- Re-read `CONTRIBUTING.md` in `AgentOps-AI/agentops`.
- Inspect the current example conventions in the upstream repo.
- Keep the patch docs/example only unless a maintainer asks for SDK changes.
- Run the upstream repo's documented formatter/test command.
- Include no secrets, wallet keys, bearer tokens, private endpoints, customer identifiers, local paths, or live payment credentials.
- State clearly that the example demonstrates telemetry shape, not production payment settlement.
- Ask Andy for explicit approval before opening any issue, PR, comment, or branch push to upstream.

## Boundary

This draft is a bridge to a respectful contribution. It does not claim AgentOps.ai ownership, partnership, endorsement, or compatibility beyond what a future tested upstream patch proves.