# THE AUTONOMY NETWORK

> Financial and computational infrastructure for autonomous machines.

## Recovery release: commerce BLOCKED

The registry contains recovered legacy routes, not verified paid services.
Read every service's status, availability, schema_status and price.binding.
Do not send funds, infer a treasury address, or treat example data as a schema.
No sellable services, signed quotes, payment verification or execution receipts
are available in this release. Payment and key-issuance routes are safety-paused.
Read-only MCP and A2A discovery transports are live and externally tested. They
inspect this catalog only; they cannot quote, pay or execute legacy services.

## Machine entrypoints

- [Service registry](https://theautonomy.ai/v1/services)
- [Capability search](https://theautonomy.ai/v1/discover?query=balance)
- [MCP Streamable HTTP](https://api.theautonomy.ai/mcp)
- [A2A discovery agent](https://api.theautonomy.ai/a2a)
- [A2A Agent Card](https://theautonomy.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json)
- [OpenAPI](https://theautonomy.ai/openapi.json)
- [X404 manifest](https://theautonomy.ai/.well-known/x404.json)
- [Discovery health](https://theautonomy.ai/v1/discovery/health)
- [Human and machine guide](https://theautonomy.ai/agents)

## Discovery protocol instructions

MCP: initialize an official Streamable HTTP client at the MCP URL, then tools/list.
Use autonomy_services, autonomy_discover, autonomy_service, or autonomy_registry_status.
A2A: fetch the Agent Card and use its JSONRPC interface with A2A-Version: 1.0.
SendMessage accepts one text/plain intent or application/json discovery filter.
It returns a direct message, not a durable job. No SSE, tasks, payments or execution.
Budget filters require exact network, asset and atomic amount; missing binding prices
produce no eligible paid matches. Never substitute a legacy advertised price.
Discovery itself is free, anonymous and does not require an API key.

## Legacy compatibility

/v1/chains, /v1/plans and /v1/endpoints remain on the legacy gateway.
Their runtime, schemas, prices and availability require fresh verification.
X404 is Autonomy's canonical commerce layer; x402 and other protocols are
external compatibility rails, not replacements.