Skill: Decode this blob

Bundled execution of the Decode this blob workflow - Hand the agent an opaque string - a JWT, a base64'd JSON payload, a gzip-encoded API response, a hex-encoded hash - and walk it through identifying what it is and unwrapping it layer by layer until it's human-readable. One x402 payment runs 7 underlying tools (jwt-decode, gunzip, brotli-decompress, base64, hex, json-format, hash); partial-success per step.

Input

Field	Type	Description
blob *	string	The opaque string to identify and decode

Example output

{
  "pack": "decode-blob",
  "args": {
    "blob": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ"
  },
  "steps": [
    {
      "slug": "jwt-decode",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "gunzip",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "brotli-decompress",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "base64",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "hex",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "json-format",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    },
    {
      "slug": "hash",
      "ok": true,
      "result": {}
    }
  ],
  "summary": "7/7 steps succeeded"
}

Try it - see the 402 challenge (free)

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/skill/decode-blob \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"blob":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ"}'

The response is HTTP 402 Payment Required with exact payment requirements. Any x402 v2 client pays automatically and retries:

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/skill/decode-blob", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "blob": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ"
  }),
});

No wallet? Pay with compute

This is a pure-CPU tool, so an agent without a wallet can pay with proof-of-work instead of USDC: fetch a challenge, solve the sha256 puzzle (16 leading zero bits - a fraction of a second of CPU, no money, no AI tokens), and resend with the X-Pow-Solution header.

import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
const lz = (b) => { let t = 0; for (const x of b) { if (!x) { t += 8; continue; } t += Math.clz32(x) - 24; break; } return t; };
const c = await (await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/pow/challenge?slug=skill-decode-blob")).json();
let n = 0;
while (lz(createHash("sha256").update(c.challenge + ":" + n).digest()) < c.difficulty) n++;
await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/skill/decode-blob", { method: "POST", headers: { "X-Pow-Solution": c.token + ":" + n, "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({"blob":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiaWF0IjoxNTE2MjM5MDIyfQ"}) });

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