[rezearcher]

Follow-up to #213. Instead of just suggesting a gate, here's a small, self-contained, read-only tool so you can judge it on the code.

What: BaseTokenGate — before Base0xQuote into a token that isn't in the built-in symbol list, the agent calls this to get a one-word GO / HOLD / BLOCK + reason (honeypot/sellability simulation, admin-control checks, Uniswap v3 liquidity vs. trade size). Backed by Grey Ridge's x402 endpoint GET https://api.greyridgesignals.ai/gate/swap.

Design (matches existing conventions):

• Same x402 handshake as exa.ts (createPaymentPayload from @blockrun/llm), $0.008 USDC/call from the Base wallet, recorded via recordUsage.
• 402 branch is gated on walletMayPay(gatewayHeaders()), so key-mode users never get a wallet signature (the repo's api-key.local.mjs fence passes).
• Output wrapped with frameUntrusted (third-party data, not instructions).
• Read-only, no new deps, fail-open: transport errors return "unchecked" and never block a trade by themselves. Base chain only (returns an error on Solana).
• Endpoint overridable with FRANKLIN_TOKEN_GATE_URL.
• tsc --noEmit clean; npm test 918/918 pass locally. 2 files, ~140 lines.

Try it without paying: curl 'https://api.greyridgesignals.ai/gate/swap/preview?token=aero' (free samples for usdc|weth|cbbtc|aero|degen); the paid route works for any Base ERC-20.

Happy to rename, drop the payment path and ship it as free-preview-only, or change anything else you'd like. Disclosure: I run the endpoint.

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[VickyXAI]

Thanks for the PR and for disclosing that you run the endpoint. We're closing this one rather than merging it.

The main issue: the tool signs whatever amount and recipient the endpoint's 402 response asks for, while recordUsage always logs a fixed $0.008. So spend caps can't see what is actually paid, and users' USDC would go straight to a third-party host outside the BlockRun gateway. Franklin's position is that paid calls go through the gateway and its spend controls, so we don't want to open a direct-to-vendor payment path.

If you'd like to offer the token gate to Franklin users, the way in is to list it as a partner API on the BlockRun gateway, so it is paid and capped like every other tool. We're happy to talk about that.

(Separately: the PhoneLookup and RealFace comments in src/tools/index.ts were changed to $0.008, but both still charge $0.01.)