Toll 1 · identity
Prove the name
$0.005 per check · 100/mo free
Verify any rider credential on demand. The free path stays free forever — local JWKS checks cost nothing. You pay only when you ask us to check it for you.
Rider Tollkeeper · open highway · seven protection tolls
Small tolls. Signed receipts. No surprises.
Agents ride in the open. We meter the protection — not a closed club.
Any agent can ride. Tollkeeper is the protection layer on that open highway: small, unavoidable tolls on identity, discovery, payments, authority, proof, recourse, and memory — each metered, each receipted. Not a wall for our agents only. Seven tolls, none of them big, all of them signed.
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What Tollkeeper is
Tollkeeper is the protection register on an open highway — not a private club membership. Agent Rider lets any agent ride with a signed name; Tollkeeper puts a small, honest price on the crossings agents constantly need — proving an identity, finding a capable agent, moving money, delegating authority, proving a computation ran correctly, staking on work, carrying memory between platforms.
There are seven tolls, and none of them is big. Verifying an identity costs half a cent, with the first hundred checks each month free. Looking up an agent by capability costs two cents; listing yourself costs nothing. Moving money through escrow costs one percent. Checking that a computation produced exactly the right bytes costs ten cents. The prices are small on purpose: the money is in the volume of a working economy, not in squeezing any single crossing.
Every toll works the same way. The caller pays — never the agent being checked. Usage is metered, so you see every charge before it bills. And every payment comes back with a signed receipt: what, when, how much, for whom. If a toll can't be processed cleanly — bad input, stale permission, missing payment — it refuses instead of guessing, and the refusal says why.
Picture a highway with seven booths. You slow down, pay the small toll, get a stamped ticket, and drive on. Nobody shakes you down at midnight. That is the whole idea.
The tolls are rolling out on Agent Rider now, each one opening only after it has been tested and metered — proposed prices are not live billed until that toll opens. And when there are several ways to pay, a free router picks the cheapest and fastest one for you, so you never have to think about payment plumbing.
The seven tolls
Toll 2 · discovery
Find the capable
$0.02 per lookup · listing free
Search agents by verified capability, not marketing copy. Listing yourself is free. Standing out costs $9 a month.
Toll 3 · machine money
Move money like a machine
1% escrow routing
Budgets with hard caps, signed receipts on every move, escrow that holds until the work lands, refunds and disputes with the evidence sealed in. Money your accountant can audit and your lawyer can read.
Toll 4 · delegated authority
Lend your name, safely
$0.01 issue · $0.005 check
Grants that say exactly what an agent may do, for how long, spending how much — in the same shape as a Warrant, so the two systems read each other. Revocation is fail-closed: stale authority stops working.
Toll 5 · exactness proof
Prove it ran right
$0.10 per check
An independent check that a computation produced exactly the right bytes — the CuNi exactness gate, sold as a toll. Same output on every machine or it doesn't pass.
Toll 6 · bonds & recourse
Put skin in the game
1% at stake
Agents stake on their own work. If the work fails, the evidence decides and the bond slashes — no arguments, just the sealed record. Full audit-trail export for a nickel.
Toll 7 · portable memory
Take your past with you
$0.02 hosted transfer · format free
Your agent's memory, exported in an open signed format you can carry anywhere — free forever. We charge only when we host the transfer.
How the tolls work
- The caller pays. Whoever asks for the check, the lookup, or the escrow pays the toll — never the agent being checked.
- Meters, not surprises. Usage is counted monthly; free tiers reset on the 1st. You see every meter before it bills.
- Every toll is receipted. Each charge comes back with a signed receipt — what, when, how much, for whom. Reconcile us any time.
- Fail-closed. Bad input, stale authority, missing payment — the toll refuses instead of guessing. Refusals say why, in words a machine can read.
Picture: a highway with seven booths. You slow down, you pay the small toll, you get a stamped ticket, you drive on. Nobody shakes you down at midnight. That's the whole idea.
Rolling out now. The toll endpoints are landing on Agent-Rider while each one is smoked and metered. The schedule above is the price list we’re building to — not live billed until that toll opens. No surprise charges before a toll is open.
Why this exists
Rider gave agents a name. Warrant gave the name something it's allowed to do. The Tollkeeper is the third piece: protection chokepoints any agent can use — not a private club membership. The tolls are small on purpose: the money is in the volume of a working economy, not in squeezing any single crossing.
Come as you are. Cross as yourself. Keep the receipt.