kash

What This Skill Does

The Kash Payment Skill integrates your OpenClaw agent with the Kash platform, enabling automated micropayments for external APIs, data services, and web tools. By providing a secure interface to your Kash agent wallet, the skill allows the agent to handle financial authorization dynamically. It features a tiered safety system where low-cost operations ($5 or less) are processed autonomously, while larger expenditures trigger a mandatory confirmation flow, ensuring you remain in total control of your agent's spending.

Installation

To integrate this skill, navigate to your OpenClaw configuration file located at ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and ensure your environment variables KASH_KEY and KASH_AGENT_ID (obtained from kash.dev) are correctly set. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/devfaraaz/kash

Ensure that you have not modified the KASH_API_URL to point to non-whitelisted domains, as the agent performs a strict security check upon initialization.

Use Cases

• Automated Research: Pay for premium data APIs or search services that provide specific research insights when the agent hits a paywall.
• Content Generation: Pay for specialized AI model inference endpoints that require a per-request fee.
• Web Scraper Support: Fund proxy services or premium scrapers that bill per URL visited during data collection tasks.
• Multi-step Agent Tasks: Use kash_balance to audit remaining budget before starting long-running workflows that involve multiple paid tool calls.

Example Prompts

1. "Check my Kash balance to see if I have enough funds to perform a deep search on the market trends report."
2. "Use the premium API to gather the latest sentiment data for AAPL stock. Stay under the $5 budget if possible."
3. "Purchase the data report from the provider for $12.00 using my Kash wallet."

Tips & Limitations

• Order of Operations: Always invoke kash_spend before initiating any paid service. The agent will halt the process if payment fails.
• Budget Transparency: The skill enforces both a local KASH_BUDGET (session-based) and a server-side budget. Always check the Kash dashboard if your agent reports a budget error.
• Security: Never hardcode your KASH_KEY in plain text inside public script files. Use your system's secure environment variable management.
• Confirmation: When prompted with CONFIRMATION_REQUIRED, provide a clear, unambiguous "YES" to allow the agent to set confirmed=true for the payment.