# Wayleave

> Wayleave is infrastructure for the agentic web: build apps, identify AI agents with Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421), set access policies, and meter and price agent traffic with HTTP 402. Humans free. Open-source npm middleware.

Wayleave (wayleave.dev) is not related to UK land-access wayleave agreements. It is developer infrastructure for AI agent traffic with three products — Build, Core and Meter — on one developer platform.

## Products
- [Wayleave Build](https://wayleave.dev/build/): Wayleave Build turns an idea or prompt into an app and GitHub repo you own, with AI agent identification, access policies and HTTP 402 pricing wired in from line one.
- [Wayleave Core](https://wayleave.dev/core/): Wayleave Core verifies AI agents by Ed25519 signature (RFC 9421 / Web Bot Auth), classifies every request into four lanes, and enforces allow, deny, rate-limit and HTTP 402 pricing policies at your origin.
- [Wayleave Meter](https://wayleave.dev/meter/): Wayleave Meter is the hosted dashboard for agent traffic: requests by lane, agent identities, routes, policies, HTTP 402 revenue and decision logs. Humans free, agents metered.

## Features
- [AI agent detection](https://wayleave.dev/features/ai-agent-detection/): Detect and classify AI agent and bot traffic on every request: verified agents, declared agents, suspected bots and humans. Open-source Node.js middleware with zero dependencies.
- [Web Bot Auth](https://wayleave.dev/features/web-bot-auth/): Verify AI agents with Ed25519 HTTP Message Signatures (RFC 9421), compatible with Web Bot Auth and Cloudflare's documented format. Replay protection, nonces and signed key directories.
- [HTTP 402 payments](https://wayleave.dev/features/http-402-payments/): Price API routes per request for AI agents with HTTP 402 Payment Required and x402-shaped challenges. Humans are never charged. 0% payment take.
- [x402 discovery](https://wayleave.dev/features/x402-discovery/): Serve a spec-shaped /.well-known/x402 manifest from your own pricing config so AI agents and x402 indexes can discover what you sell. Express middleware, zero dependencies.
- [Access policies](https://wayleave.dev/features/agent-access-policies/): Allow, deny, rate-limit or price AI agent traffic per lane and route. Signed policies enforced at your origin, with 403 and 429 responses that carry the rule id.
- [Identity API](https://wayleave.dev/features/identity-api/): POST a request's signature headers to api.wayleave.dev/v1/identify and get back who signed it and which lane it belongs in. No install, any language, nothing stored.
- [Express middleware](https://wayleave.dev/features/express-middleware/): Add AI agent identification, access policies, metering and HTTP 402 pricing to any Express or Connect app with one line. Zero dependencies, Node native crypto, TypeScript declarations.
- [MCP servers](https://wayleave.dev/features/mcp-servers/): Put Wayleave in front of MCP tool servers and paid data APIs: identify which AI agents call your tools, rate-limit them, and price calls with HTTP 402.

## Developers
- [Quickstart](https://wayleave.dev/developers/): npm install wayleave; app.use(gate.express())
- [npm package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/wayleave)
- [Source on GitHub](https://github.com/gibrancorbin11-hub/wayleave)
- [Integration docs](https://meter.wayleave.dev/docs.html)
- [Hosted Meter](https://meter.wayleave.dev)
- Identity API: POST https://api.wayleave.dev/v1/identify

## Optional
- [Pricing](https://wayleave.dev/pricing/)
- [FAQ](https://wayleave.dev/faq/)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://wayleave.dev/llms-full.txt)