Lucy – pay-per-task AI agent in USDC, no subscription (A2A/MCP/x402)
Lucy is a pay-per-task AI agent that allows users to complete various tasks by sending USDC payments. It operates without subscriptions or accounts, providing services through platforms like Telegram and A2A protocols. Users can request tasks ranging from writing to research, with pricing based on task complexity.
- ▪Lucy is an autonomous AI micro-task agent that charges a fee in USDC for completed tasks.
- ▪The service is accessible via Telegram for humans and through A2A, MCP, and x402 protocols for agents.
- ▪Task types include writing, research, coding, and file processing, with prices varying based on complexity.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,688 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Woodman97/lucy-agent |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 08:43:14 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T08:47:01.165Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T08:47:01.165Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _Fu0_wQziGRz |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.