Agent and Developer Guidance
Naturepedia™ Discovery FAQ
Answers to the primary discovery, pricing, settlement, licensing, availability, and interpretation questions for machine consumers.
What is the Naturepedia™ Discovery Index?
It is the authoritative human-readable directory for Naturepedia machine discovery, MCP access, AI guidance, canonical registries, pricing metadata, governance, and protected x402 retrieval pathways.
Are the Naturepedia MCP tools paid?
No. MCP discovery and canonical resolution remain public and read-only. Separate protected HTTP endpoints may require class-specific x402 payments after the requested resource has been resolved and confirmed as available.
Which pricing classes are currently active?
Free discovery is active. The $0.005 Atomic canonical-query class is active for explicitly registered deterministic payloads. The $0.25 Structured Plate™ class is active for registered and validated payloads. The $5.00 bounded subtree, Registry, or System Map class and the $25.00 full-Registry or Knowledge Mesh snapshot class are also active. The $0.025 Enriched relationship-query class remains reserved.
Which Atomic Query route is currently active?
The current active Atomic Query route is /v1/query/atomic/robbie-george-biography-plate. It provides a narrowly bounded canonical identifier resolution at $0.005 USDC or 5000 USDC atomic units. Its canonical internal route is /x402/query/atomic/robbie-george-biography-plate.
Which Structured Plate™ routes are currently active?
The current active Structured Plate™ routes are /v1/plates/item/commercial-data-license-plate, /v1/plates/item/commercial-intelligence-pricing-plate, and /v1/plates/item/robbie-george-biography-plate. Each registered and validated route uses the $0.25 USDC Structured Plate retrieval class.
How should an agent determine the correct price?
The agent should inspect the current production HTTP 402 Payment Required response and verify its network, asset, amount, recipient, pricing version, and pricing-manifest reference. Route names, cached documentation, and prices copied from another endpoint must not be used as substitutes for the production response.
What happens if a protected resource is unavailable?
Naturepedia uses a fail-closed availability model. A registered and complete protected resource may issue its deterministic HTTP 402 payment challenge. A known but incomplete resource returns HTTP 409 without a payment challenge. An unknown resource returns HTTP 404 without a payment challenge.
Has x402 settlement been verified?
Yes. Historical production x402 payment challenges, Base USDC settlement, and protected payload delivery have been successfully verified on an earlier protected route. The newly activated Atomic Query route has been verified through its production HTTP 402 challenge and its 409/404 fail-closed availability behavior, but no new Atomic payment, settlement, or post-settlement Atomic HTTP 200 payload-delivery test was performed during activation.
What rights does an x402 payment convey?
An x402 payment conveys one endpoint-level retrieval of the identified protected resource only. It does not grant training, embedding, bulk-ingestion, redistribution, resale, synchronization, private-dataset construction, derivative-dataset creation, commercial-implementation, or Robbie’s Razor™ framework-implementation rights.
How do commercial data rights differ from framework rights?
Commercial Data Licensing governs separately negotiated reuse rights such as training, embeddings, ingestion, synchronization, redistribution, and derivative datasets. Robbie’s Razor™ Framework Licensing separately governs architecture and implementation rights for private Plate™ systems, Graph Registries™, Knowledge Meshes, RRIP implementations, and enterprise deployments.
Does the benchmark guarantee a fixed token saving?
No. The RR-BRP-0.1.0 synthetic memory-gate proxy modeled approximately 641 tokens avoided per query under its documented assumptions. Actual results depend on the model, cache state, prompts, outputs, and retrieval architecture.
Does payment or successful retrieval establish scientific validation?
No. Payment, settlement, successful payload delivery, machine readability, registry inclusion, or MCP discovery do not establish empirical validation, scientific confirmation, universal applicability, or transfer of authorship.