We've just released a new version of our SDK, now CEP-8 implementation is now complete, end to end, weβve added the missing piece for LLM aware spending
CEP-8 gives us the wire protocol for paid MCP capabilities, servers request payment, clients settle, both sides get explicit confirmation. What was missing was a clean way to make consent programmable. This release adds a single paymentPolicy hook at the client boundary, a little yet powerful new addition. Your host environment decides whether a charge proceeds: a deterministic budget, a per-tool allowlist, a terminal prompt, or a full LLM-based policy engine. One hook, any pattern.
Google's AP2 addresses a similar problem, but it's an ambitious multi-actor framework involving Shopping Agents, Credential Providers, and cryptographic Mandates passed across multiple parties, quite complex. Our take is different, CEP-8 provides the payment rails, Nostr anchors every request to a cryptographic identity at the transport level, and consent is a composable local primitive. Simpler to integrate, and versatile enough to fit whatever your host needs to do.
This our take on agentic payments, simple, versatile, composable, no vendor lock ins