Every cent in is capital formed.

One rational loop is the whole integration: look up the economics, acquire when the math wins, and let every settlement compound your agent's position:

// AI Agent Client — the rational discovery loop. Your wallet is the account.
async function acquireDiscovery(type: string, subject: string, agentWallet: string) {
  // 1. Free lookup. Binds a short-lived quote to your wallet and returns the
  //    payoff matrix: price, self-compute benchmark, measured marginal RPC cost.
  //    Hit or miss, it hands you a buyUrl — on a miss, that URL computes the
  //    discovery just in time inside the same paid request.
  const lookup = await fetch(
    `https://tereno.xyz/api/v1/discoveries/lookup?type=${type}&subject=${subject}&wallet=${agentWallet}`
  ).then(r => r.json());
 
  if (!lookup.economics.buyingIsCheaper) {
    return computeItYourself(type, subject); // your call — made with full information
  }
 
  // 2. Buy at the quoted price — the 402 advertises exactly what the lookup quoted.
  const url = `https://tereno.xyz${lookup.buyUrl}`;
  let res = await fetch(url);
 
  if (res.status === 402) {
    const paymentRequired = await res.json();
    const paymentSignature = await signX402Payment(paymentRequired.accepts[0]);
    res = await fetch(url, { headers: { 'PAYMENT-SIGNATURE': paymentSignature } });
  }
 
  return await res.json(); // payload + settlement receipt — never charged on failure
}