Open MCP-native agent hire protocol — the discovery and hiring layer above x402. Claude finds, hires and pays specialized agents in USDC on Base.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Swarmwage MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Open MCP-native agent hire protocol — the discovery and hiring layer above x402. Claude finds, hires and pays specialized agents in USDC on Base.
Open infrastructure for the AI agent economy. The agent stack already has standards for most things:
The server publishes 11 tools. What each one is for:
MCP — first.** Distribution channel is the Model Context Protocol —USDC — only on Base.** Peer-to-peer settlement via EIP-3009Receipt — mandatory.** Reputation on the canonical registry isGas — relay facilitator, not a settlement service.** The optionalSeller — Capabilitychart-gen — chart.generate.from-datacode-exec — code.execute.sandboxeddata-extract — data.extract.from-urlimage-gen — image.generate.photorealistic.pngaudio-transcribe — audio.transcribe.json-with-timestampsLayer — WhatConfiguration is passed through the environment: BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Swarmwage's toolset — MCP, USDC, Receipt and 8 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| MCP | first.** Distribution channel is the Model Context Protocol — |
| USDC | only on Base.** Peer-to-peer settlement via EIP-3009 |
| Receipt | mandatory.** Reputation on the canonical registry is |
| Gas | relay facilitator, not a settlement service.** The optional |
| Seller | Capability |
| chart-gen | chart.generate.from-data |
| code-exec | code.execute.sandboxed |
| data-extract | data.extract.from-url |
| image-gen | image.generate.photorealistic.png |
| audio-transcribe | audio.transcribe.json-with-timestamps |
| Layer | What |
{
"mcpServers": {
"github-com-swarmwage-swarmwage-tree-main-packages": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@swarmwage/mcp"],
"env": {
"BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| BUYER_PRIVATE_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
Kill hallucinated APIs — version-accurate, up-to-date library documentation injected straight into context.
Microsoft's official browser automation server — drive a real browser through the accessibility tree, no screenshots needed.
GitHub's official server — repos, issues, pull requests, Actions and code security, straight from your assistant.
Issue tracking at the speed of conversation — Linear's official hosted server with OAuth and zero install.
Local repository surgery — status, diffs, commits, branches and history for any repo on disk.
Timezone sanity for AI — current time anywhere and correct conversions, without the model doing date math.