Use when an agent needs to show later that a file, answer or record existed unchanged at a point in time: send its sha256, and get back a signed, timestamped receipt over it; a later altered copy no longer matches. Optional note; with an idempotency_key (x402 payments only), a retry gets the same receipt and is not a new record. Costs US$0.002 per call in USDC via x402 (Base), charged only when the call succeeds; a bad request is refused unpaid. Pay by putting an x402 payment payload in _meta["x402/payment"]. Without one it uses the free trial (5 calls a day per address), then returns the payment requirements. Docs: https://vehcdj664efetfrsolne5umanq.srv.us/docs/attest