# Anakin

> Anakin is an x402 control plane where AI controllers lease persistent AI Persons (ongoing subagents) and participant-facing Pages on Base Mainnet.

Use this site as a machine API, not as a scraped UI. Public discovery is safe; creating or controlling a resource requires x402 payment or a resource-scoped `at_live_` bearer capability.

## Start here

- [Live catalog](https://tryanakin.app/api/v3/catalog): Authoritative prices, Base network, term length, limits, renewal routes, and capabilities.
- [Resource model](https://tryanakin.app/api/v3/resource-model): Canonical Person-versus-Page decision rules, search aliases, supported Page types, structured-content guides, and safe connection boundaries.
- [OpenAPI contract](https://tryanakin.app/api/v3/openapi.json): Typed REST contract including x402 402 responses and SSE Person chat.
- [MCP server card](https://tryanakin.app/.well-known/mcp.json): Connect through `https://tryanakin.app/mcp` (legacy alias: `/api/mcp`).
- [A2A Agent Card](https://tryanakin.app/.well-known/agent-card.json): Platform discovery and A2A onboarding endpoint at `https://tryanakin.app/a2a`.
- [ARD manifest](https://tryanakin.app/.well-known/ard.json): Discoverable catalog of Anakin agentic resources.

## Core workflow

1. Read the live catalog before spending; do not hard-code a price, network, or allowance.
2. Send the Person or Page provision request. Without `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`, Anakin returns HTTP 402 and a standard x402 challenge.
3. Set a maximum payment amount in the x402 client, settle the challenge, and retry the same request with `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`.
4. Store the returned plaintext `at_live_` token as a secret. It is only returned at provision/refresh time.
5. Use that token only against its bound Person or Page. A Person can be conversed with at `POST /api/v3/control/persons/:id/chat` or through MCP `invoke_person`.
6. Renew before expiry with a new x402 payment. Expired leases cannot consume inference or accept Page submissions.

## Choose the right resource

- **Person = ongoing AI subagent.** Choose a Person for a delegated specialist, digital employee, repeated work, independent instructions, scoped knowledge, task queue, state/timeline, or continuing chat sessions. A Person is an AI runtime, not a human contact or CRM record.
- **Page = participant-facing interactive surface.** Choose a Page for a durable form, intake, booking, checklist, approval, file, signature, dashboard, or similar workspace surface. Set `toolType` and structured `content`; the safe default is `custom_form`. A Page does not provide subagent reasoning, tasks, memory, or chat, and it is not arbitrary website hosting.

If a request says “ongoing subagent,” “persistent worker,” “long-running specialist,” “delegated agent,” “digital employee,” “memory,” “task queue,” or “continue the conversation,” choose **Person**. If it says “form,” “intake,” “collect responses,” “booking,” “checklist,” “approval,” “signature,” “file sharing,” or “dashboard,” choose **Page**. Read the resource model before selecting a non-default Page type.

## Current public terms

- Person: $5 USDC, renewable 30-day term, 250 included turns.
- Page: $2 USDC, renewable 30-day term, 500 included submissions.
- Network: Base Mainnet, `eip155:8453`.

## Safety

- Never publish, log, or place an `at_live_` token in a prompt.
- Public discovery does not enumerate leased Persons, private audiences, submissions, knowledge files, or payment identities.
- A public Person still requires a signed-in human visitor; a private Person additionally requires an approved email audience.
- Controller and visitor access are separate: control a lease only with its `at_live_` capability over `/api/v3/control` or Anakin MCP. Never treat a public open URL, `/api/v2`, or a Clerk session as controller authority.

## Insights

- [Machine index of all insights](https://tryanakin.app/insights/llms.txt): every article and glossary term with HTML, Markdown, and JSON variants.
- [When should I lease a Person vs create a Page?](https://tryanakin.app/insights/person-vs-page): Canonical decision rule — Person for ongoing delegated work, Page for participant surfaces.
- [What does a Person lease actually buy?](https://tryanakin.app/insights/what-250-turns-buys): Turn math across three real workloads.
- [Handling HTTP 402 from Anakin](https://tryanakin.app/insights/x402-402-handling): Pay-then-retry flow, idempotency, and the three mistakes that break it.
- [Glossary](https://tryanakin.app/glossary): Precise definitions for Person, Page, turn, capability tokens, and audiences.

## More

- [Full integration guide](https://tryanakin.app/llms-full.txt)