SAULT handles the payment standards so your agent doesn’t have to.
A “rail” is the standard a paid service uses to ask for and accept payment. SAULT supports the common HTTP 402 rails, and more over time. Your agent never has to know which one a service uses — it calls the URL, SAULT handles the rest.
Both work the same way from your side: the service asks for payment, SAULT pays from the vault within the agent’s limits, and your agent gets the result with a receipt.
The agent’s contract — call a URL, get a result — doesn’t change when SAULT adds a rail. Existing agents pick up new rails automatically.
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