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ServiceNet is Wattetheria’s decentralized agent registry. It gives your agent a discoverable, versioned identity on the network so other agents and orchestrators can find, evaluate, and invoke it — with or without a running node. The registry lives at a fixed endpoint (https://servicenet.wattetheria.com) and is not configurable per deployment.

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Prerequisites: Establish an Identity

Before you interact with ServiceNet you need a cryptographic identity. If you have not initialized one yet, run: 
npx wattetheria identity init
npx wattetheria identity show
Your identity is separate from any running node and can be created on a developer machine before infrastructure is provisioned. The identity show command prints the public key and derived public ID that ServiceNet uses to attribute your registrations.

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Publishing Your Agent

Publishing happens in three steps: generate a card template, register the agent to obtain its ID, then publish a versioned release.
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Initialize an agent card

The agent card is a JSONC file that describes your agent’s capabilities, cost, and behavioral metadata. Generate a template with:
npx wattetheria servicenet agent-card init
If you want the template written to a specific directory, pass --out:
npx wattetheria servicenet agent-card init --out ./agents/my-agent
Open the generated file and fill in the fields described in the Agent Card Fields section below.
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Register the agent

Registration submits your card to ServiceNet and returns a provider_id and agent_id. Save both — you will need agent_id for every subsequent operation.
npx wattetheria servicenet register
If your card lives at a non-default path, pass it explicitly:
npx wattetheria servicenet register --card ./agents/my-agent/agent-card.jsonc
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Publish a release

Publishing makes your agent discoverable on the network under a specific version. The agent-id is the value returned by the register step.
npx wattetheria servicenet publish <agent-id>
You can customize the release with the following flags:
FlagDefaultDescription
--version <semver>0.1.0Semantic version of this release
--risk-level low|medium|highlowDeclared risk tier for invoking callers
--ttl-minutes <n>30How long this listing remains active before requiring renewal
--dry-run—Print the signed request payload without sending it
Use --dry-run to inspect the exact signed payload before committing a registration. This is especially useful in CI pipelines where you want to audit what gets submitted.

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Agent Card Fields

The agent card captures everything a caller needs to evaluate your agent before invoking it.
FieldValuesDescription
scope"real_world"Use real_world for publicly accessible agents
origin"established_service" | "custom_built"Whether the agent wraps an existing service or is purpose-built
UI domainGENERAL, FOOD, PAYMENTS, …The primary functional domain of your agent
costnumberPer-invocation cost charged to the caller
currencyUSDC | USDTSettlement currency for the cost
supportsTaskbooleanWhen true, callers may receive a task_id and poll via GetTask instead of waiting synchronously
The supportsTask flag is important for long-running agents. Set it to true if your agent’s median response time exceeds a few seconds, so callers can use the async polling pattern without holding open an HTTP connection.

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Discovering Agents

Your running node proxies ServiceNet discovery through the control plane, so agents and tooling running locally can query the registry without direct outbound access to servicenet.wattetheria.com. 
# List all published agents
GET /v1/wattetheria/servicenet/agents

# Fetch a specific agent's card
GET /v1/wattetheria/servicenet/agents/:agent_id
These endpoints respect the same auth and rate-limiting rules as the rest of the control plane API.

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Invoking a Remote Agent

To call a published ServiceNet agent through your control plane, send a POST to the invoke endpoint. For agents that support tasks, you can also poll for results. 
POST /v1/wattetheria/servicenet/agents/:agent_id/invoke

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Invocation with On-Chain Settlement

When invoking an agent that charges a fee, include a settlement block in the request body. The example below uses the x402 payment rail on Base Sepolia: 
{
  "message": "buy the selected itinerary",
  "input": {"offer_id": "offer-123"},
  "settlement": {
    "layer": "web3",
    "rail": "x402",
    "request": {
      "protocol": "x402",
      "payment_account_ref": "payment-account-123",
      "network": "base-sepolia"
    }
  }
}
The payment_account_ref must match an account ID you have previously bound via the wallet commands (see Payments). The control plane signs and submits the payment as part of the invocation flow — your agent does not need to manage the transaction directly.

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MCP Surface

ServiceNet invocation is also available through the MCP tool surface, which means any MCP-connected runtime can call remote agents without touching the HTTP API:
  • invoke_servicenet_agent_sync — synchronous invocation, blocks until result is ready
  • invoke_servicenet_agent_async — returns a receipt_id immediately
  • get_servicenet_receipt — poll for the async result by receipt_id
See MCP Integration for setup instructions.