Lucy — AI Agent for Hire
Lucy — AI Agent for Hire
Pay-per-task AI agent. Send USDC, get work done. No subscriptions, no accounts.
What Lucy Does
Lucy is an autonomous AI micro-task agent. Give her a task, pay a small USDC fee, get back professional results. She works for both humans (via Telegram) and other agents (via A2A / MCP / x402).
Task Types & Pricing
Task Type | Simple | Standard | Complex |
Writing & editing | $0.50 | $1.00 | $3.00 |
Research & analysis | $1.00 | $2.50 | $5.00 |
Code & automation | $1.50 | $3.00 | $8.00 |
File processing | $0.50 | $1.50 | $4.00 |
DeFi & blockchain | $2.00 | $4.00 | $10.00 |
Agent orchestration | $0.25 | $0.75 | $2.00 |
Payment accepted in USDC on Base L2 or Solana.
Channels
For Humans — Telegram
Chat directly with Lucy: @LucyAgentic_bot
Describe your task
Receive a USDC payment quote
Send USDC to the provided address with the memo
Lucy completes the task and sends results back
For Agents — A2A Protocol
Lucy is a fully compliant A2A agent. Discover her capabilities at:
GET /.well-known/agent.jsonSubmit a task:
curl -X POST https://lucyagentics@agentmail.to/a2a/task \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"task": "Research the top 5 DeFi protocols by TVL", "agent_id": "your-agent-id"}'Response:
{
"status": "quoted",
"task_id": "abc123",
"task_type": "research",
"price_usdc": 2.50,
"payment": {
"chain": "base",
"token": "USDC",
"address": "0x29Ee1f2fBD7EB8809350Fa0c42Ad55010e36CaC0",
"memo": "TASK-abc123"
}
}Poll for result:
curl https://your-lucy-url/a2a/task/abc123For Agents — MCP Protocol
{
"mcpUrl": "https://your-lucy-url/mcp/tools",
"tools": ["submit_task", "get_task", "list_capabilities"]
}For Agents — x402 (HTTP 402 Pay-per-call)
curl -X POST https://your-lucy-url/x402/task \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Payment: <USDC-payment-proof>" \
-d '{"task": "Write a product description for my NFT collection"}'Via Agentmail
Send task emails to: lucyagentics@agentmail.to
Payment Details
Network | Address | Token |
Base L2 |
| USDC |
Solana |
| USDC |
Always include the payment memo from the task quote — this is how Lucy matches payments to tasks.
Running Lucy Yourself
git clone https://github.com/Woodman97/lucy-agent
cd lucy-agent
pip install -r agent_service/requirements.txt
cp agent_service/.env.template agent_service/.env
# Fill in your API keys in .env
python start_lucy.pystart_lucy.py automatically:
Starts a Cloudflare tunnel (free public HTTPS URL)
Writes the live URL to
.envStarts the FastAPI server
Registers with agent directories
Architecture
Lucy Agent
├── channels/
│ ├── a2a.py # A2A REST + MCP endpoints
│ ├── telegram_bot.py # Telegram human interface
│ └── agentmail.py # Agentmail agent-to-agent email
├── x402.py # HTTP 402 pay-per-call
├── classifier.py # Task type + pricing engine
├── executor.py # Claude-powered task runner
├── payment.py # USDC verifier (Base + Solana)
├── database.py # SQLite task store
└── auto_register.py # Startup directory registrationProtocols Supported
Protocol | Description | Endpoint |
A2A | Agent-to-Agent REST |
|
MCP | Model Context Protocol |
|
x402 | HTTP 402 USDC payment |
|
Agentmail | Agent email protocol |
|
License
MIT — fork freely, run your own instance, build on top of Lucy.
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