pay-skill

pay-skill is a software publisher focused on payment tooling for autonomous software agents, distributing its work through its website at https://pay-skill.com. Its catalog currently consists of a single product, pay, a command-line interface designed to let AI agents send and receive payments using USDC, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on the Base blockchain network. The tool sits at the intersection of two typical software categories: developer-facing CLI utilities and cryptocurrency payment infrastructure. Rather than targeting human end users with a graphical application, pay is built for programmatic and agent-driven workflows, where software systems need to transact with each other or with services without manual intervention. Typical use cases include AI agents paying for API access, compute resources, data, or other machine-consumed services, as well as developers building agent-based applications that require a lightweight, scriptable way to move stablecoin funds on-chain. Because it operates on Base, an Ethereum-compatible layer-two network, transactions can be settled with relatively low fees and fast confirmation times, which suits frequent, small-value machine-to-machine payments. As a CLI, the product can be invoked from scripts, integrated into agent frameworks, or combined with other command-line tools in automated pipelines. With one package in its range, pay-skill's offering is narrow but specialized, aimed squarely at developers and builders working on the emerging ecosystem of autonomous agents that need native payment capabilities as part of their standard tooling.