Introduction
Akashi gives an AI agent one endpoint for tools on Pocket Network. Finding and reading a tool is free. Each run costs a fixed price, paid in USDC over x402.
Akashi is an OpenRouter for agent tools. One Pocket Network service, tool-router (Akashi Tool Router), sits in front of 80 tools from 33 providers: web search and page reading, cited answers, research papers, news, weather (16-day forecasts and history since 1940), maps and geocoding, crypto prices and FX, GitHub and packages, time zones and holidays, dictionaries and more.
Your agent finds a tool, reads its contract and runs it. It pays per run in test USDC on Base Sepolia, with the x402 protocol. It needs no Akashi account and no provider API keys: a wallet with test USDC is enough.
How it works
Three verbs. The first two are free.
Discover (free). Describe the job in plain words. Akashi ranks the catalog and returns candidates, each with its id, price, health (status, p50 and p95 run time) and hints on what to call next.
Inspect (free). Read one tool's contract: what it does and what it will not do, its input JSON Schema, its output schema, its price and a working example.
Run (paid per call). Send the tool's input as the JSON body. The first answer is 402 Payment Required with the exact price. An x402 client signs the payment and retries. A 200 means the run succeeded and the payment settled. A failed run is never charged.
curl -s -X POST https://api.useakashi.xyz/v1/discover \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"query": "weather in Lagos", "limit": 3}'
curl -s -X POST https://api.useakashi.xyz/v1/inspect \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
-d '{"id": "openweather/current"}'node akashi.mjs run openweather/current --input '{"city":"Lagos"}'What happens to a run
The public gateway at https://api.useakashi.xyz checks the payment. It then sends the run through Pocket Network as a real relay, signed with Akashi's staked application. Akashi's supplier (a RelayMiner) passes it to the tool-router backend, which calls the upstream tool. The gateway settles the payment only when the run succeeds. See How it runs on Pocket.
The tools
Each tool has an id of the form provider/endpoint, such as firecrawl/search or openweather/current. Prices are $0.001, $0.005 or $0.01 per call. Browse them in Tools, or ask discover.
Ways to connect
Skill
Tell your agent set up https://useakashi.xyz/SKILL.md.
MCP
A local MCP server with three tools. Your key stays on your machine.
CLI
One file, akashi.mjs. Discover, inspect and run from a terminal.
HTTP
Call the gateway from your own code with @x402/fetch.
Agent chat
Try it in the browser, with demo credit or your own wallet.
Next steps
- Pricing and payments: the three prices, the x402 handshake, and when you are not charged.
- For judges: test the whole path end to end, with the on-chain ids.
- API reference: base URL, the result envelope, errors and limits.
- Machine-readable:
https://useakashi.xyz/llms.txtandhttps://useakashi.xyz/SKILL.md.