Platform Overview

AEP (Agent Economic Protocol) is the runtime layer for economic agents—including autonomous AI agents. It extends ERC-4337 smart accounts with policy modules that enforce budget, counterparty, and rate-limit rules at the validation layer—so agents can spend safely, onchain.

Core Capabilities

Budget Governance

Set per-transaction, daily, weekly, and per-task spend caps. Overspend is impossible at the protocol level; policy modules are checked during validateUserOp before execution.

Intent-Based Procurement

Resolve natural-language intents (e.g. "image generation under $1") to execution plans with providers, prices, and reputation. Uses ERC-8004 for identity and reputation; x402 for payment flow.

Economic Relationships

Credit facilities, conditional escrow, revenue splitters, and SLA contracts—all onchain. Deploy and manage via CLI, SDK, or MCP.

Policy Modules

• BudgetPolicy — Caps and spend tracking
• CounterpartyPolicy — Allow/block lists, min-reputation
• RateLimitPolicy — Max transactions per window

Architecture

┌─────────────────┐
│  Your Agent     │
└────────┬────────┘
         │ Intent / UserOp
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  AEP SDK / CLI   │
│  MCP / REST API  │
├─────────────────┤
│ Policy Check    │
│ Intent Resolve  │
└────────┬────────┘
         │ validateUserOp
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  AEPAccount     │
│  (ERC-4337)     │
├─────────────────┤
│ BudgetPolicy    │
│ Counterparty    │
│ RateLimit       │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌─────────────────┐
│  Base (EVM)     │
└─────────────────┘

Integration Options

Next Steps

• Quick Start — 0 to AEP in 15 minutes
• Supported Chains — Base Sepolia, Base mainnet
• CLI Installation — Install and configure the CLI