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Interesting wedge. The setup friction is real, but the next trust layer is admission control once agents can actually spend. We keep seeing runs look productive while they retry the same failure class. Curious whether you plan to expose native spend receipts, pause rules, or verifier hooks at the platform layer, or whether you want that to live entirely in the calling agent. We are thinking about the control-plane side of the same problem at MartinLoop, so I am following this closely.

The x402/HTTP 402 bet is the architecturally interesting choice here. Zero is essentially wagering that micropayment-per-call becomes the standard settlement layer for agentic API access, which would be a significant infrastructure shift. The question is about the failure mode: when an agent hits a 402 Payment Required from a service that's not in Zero's index, does it fail gracefully or does it try to handle the payment directly? And is there a spending cap mechanism the developer can set per agent session, not just per individual call?

@michael_ludden my openclaw got superpowers now!

Congrats on the launch!

The API key friction is real — anyone building with AI agents spends a lot of time on config vs actual building. Curious how this handles auth for services that require OAuth flows — is that abstracted away too, or does the user still need to handle that manually?

I got to try out Zero a few days ago — super cool! It gives my Claude superpowers

Congrats on the launch @daniel_baum @ryanhudson and the whole team at ZeroClick. I will be pulling this into production and turning my AI shopping agents at Brambles.ai into super agents with Zero. This just collapsed my dev roadmap from months into a few hours!

What kinds of services can agents actually discover through Zero right now?

we built this initially for OpenClaw hyper-adopters like ourselves but it works everywhere else too.creating accounts and provisioning API keys for every service you want your agent to use once is painful. doing it again for every new agent you create is a nightmare to manage (even more so for a company). canceling accounts you didnt use or remembering which agent has which tools is a pain in the a$$lots more to build here on day zero of the agentic economy (pun intended) but props to the x402 & MPP teams for laying the foundation for us all to build agents with super powers.

The tool discovery layer without requiring per-service API key config is the hard part. Most agent frameworks make you wire up each integration manually. We've hit exactly this friction building AI workflows where adding a new data source means plumbing OAuth differently every time. How does zero handle auth token refresh and rate limit management across 4k services at scale?

Unified tool registry for agents is something we've needed badly. Building RetainSure's AI workflows means stitching together CRM APIs, ticketing systems, and comms tools and each integration is a custom adapter. The 4k tool count suggests a standardized abstraction layer over wildly different auth schemes. How do you handle tools that require multi-step OAuth flows or dynamic credential management per end user?

This hits a problem I've run into myself – agents stalling the moment they hit an integration wall. Bookmarking to try properly. How are you thinking about abuse prevention and runaway spending now that agents can call so many tools without manual setup friction?

Zero solves something genuinely annoying about building with AI agents: the setup tax. We've spent weeks configuring integrations that should just work. We've been building in the AI customer success for B2B SaaS space, and zero.xyz touches on something we think about a lot. How does service discovery actually work when an agent needs to pick the right tool from 4k options?

Removing API key config friction is the right unlock for agent workflows. Right now most agents stall when they hit an integration wall. Does zero.xyz handle auth scoping per agent call, or does it operate with broad permissions once connected?

Congrats on the launch @michael_ludden @daniel_baum ! Upvoted :)When you say tools - does Zero provide those? Or I need to give access to them (tools are like Grafana/Splunk)?