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Blog

News, deep-dives, and announcements from the Agent402 project - deterministic tools, x402 payments, and MCP integrations for autonomous agents.

2026-06-22

Building with MCP: Claude Code, hosted, and npm

Agent402 speaks MCP natively. Here's how to connect it to Claude Code, use the hosted endpoint, or run the npm package locally.

1,000 tools and counting

Agent402 crossed 1,000 deterministic tools this week. Here's what categories exist, how we got here, and what's coming next.

How the proof-of-work free tier works

Every pure-CPU tool on Agent402 is free if you solve a small proof-of-work challenge. Here's how it works, why we built it, and what it means for agents.

Why we built Agent402

Agents need deterministic tools they can trust. We built Agent402 to give them exactly that - no API keys, no rate-limit games, just x402 micropayments for every call.