An AI agent with a USDC balance can now call any Lightning-gated (L402) service. We detect the protocol, route the payment, and return the data. The agent never knows which protocol settled.
Cinderwright is an MCP project maintained in the cinderwright-ai/cinderwright-api repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An AI agent with a USDC balance can now call any Lightning-gated (L402) service. We detect the protocol, route the payment, and return the data…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented npm package is cinderwright-mcp-server. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
The example declares CW_KEY. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"cinderwright": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"cinderwright-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"CW_KEY": "YOUR_CW_KEY"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| CW_KEY | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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