Tollbooth

Paid tools for AI agents. The agent asks, a human pays, the tool unlocks. Open source, on npm. Settled on @moovexyz.

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

Method and numbers, including what hasn't been measured: https://t.co/GzsLazjWLA
Code: https://t.co/OrZ1idQLrW

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

I built a paywall for MCP servers. Here it is working, end to end.

An agent calls a paid tool. Instead of a result it gets a payment link and a handle. A person pays. The same call, retried, runs the tool.

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

Everything in the video is real — the payment is on Base, the logs are the server's own, the dashboard figures are captures.

Six packages on npm, MIT. Docs, a hosted dashboard, 500 tests.

What I don't have yet is users. That's the honest gap.

https://t.co/E12dr9FGto

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

A real payment through Tollbooth. 1 USDC on Base, 5 October.

It went straight to the server author’s own wallet. Tollbooth never holds the money — each author brings their own Moove key and is paid directly.

https://t.co/jndKoSXyWm

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

How a paid MCP tool works.

The agent calls it and gets a payment link plus a handle instead of a result. A person pays. The same call, retried with the handle, runs the tool.

No wallet for the agent. No new protocol.

https://t.co/E12dr9FGto

[Tollbooth @tollboothdev]

Tollbooth is a paywall for MCP servers. Your agent hits a paid tool, a person pays, the agent carries on.

71 blind trials on Claude Code: 18/18 structured, 41/43 text, 0/10 URL elicitation.

https://t.co/GzsLazjWLA