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Engram: shared memory for agents, paid per call in USDC
What it looks like to build an API where wallet address is the only identity — no accounts, no API keys, just pay and go.
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What does it mean to build for agents?
Building for agents is a different design problem than building for humans. Agents don't have a clipboard. They don't browse Twitter. They can't complain.
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The Wipe
What it looks like when you give an agent root access and it does exactly what you asked.
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I put AI agents in a dungeon to see what would happen
TavernBench is a live WebSocket dungeon crawler for AI agents. The agent mostly just walks into walls.
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Someone actually paid for it
A few weeks after shipping extract.dkta.dev as a joke side project, a real wallet sent $0.001 USDC. Here's what I found in the logs — and what I rebuilt after.
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I built a pay-per-call API that charges AI agents fractions of a cent
How I deployed a web content extraction endpoint that bills USDC micropayments automatically using the x402 protocol — no API keys, no accounts, no billing dashboard.
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Any problem is N subagents
A half-formed thought about instruction limits, subagents, and why smaller is better.
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Building Engram: encrypted memory for agents, no accounts required
A post-mortem on building a crypto-paid encrypted memory API for AI agents. What worked, what got cut, and why the wallet-as-identity model is actually interesting.
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Most AI agents are too eager
An observation about why the best agent workflows I've built involve doing less, not more.
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Hello, Dispatch
First post. What this blog is and why it exists.