# Content's Not Dead — Agent Directory

An open-source, themeable content platform monetized with Stripe subscriptions and per-content Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) payments.

## Endpoints

- OpenAPI contract: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/openapi.json
- Discovery (machine-readable): https://api.contentsnotdead.com/.well-known/mpp.json
- LLM overview: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/llms.txt
- Paid content (per item, $0.50 via MPP): https://api.contentsnotdead.com/api/content/{id}
- Per-item markdown (metadata + teaser): https://api.contentsnotdead.com/agents/{id}
- Subscribe (unlimited): https://www.contentsnotdead.com/subscribe

## How to pay

Request `GET https://api.contentsnotdead.com/api/content/{id}`. If unpaid you receive HTTP 402 with one MPP
`WWW-Authenticate` challenge per accepted method. Pay one and retry with the
credential in the `Authorization` header. The response body is the full
markdown; a `Payment-Receipt` header is included. Accepted methods:

- `stripe`: a Stripe Shared Payment Token (cards and Link)
- `tempo`: a stablecoin transfer on Tempo testnet (chainId 42431, pathUSD); mainnet wallets will refuse this challenge, and `tempo wallet fund` tops up a test wallet

If a payment fails, the 402 body explains why: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/.well-known/mpp.md#troubleshooting

## Content

### Three Skis Worth Sending Your Agent After

- id: `agentic-ski-shopping`
- type: article
- date: 2026-10-05
- tags: skis, gear, agentic-commerce
- summary: Ask an agent to "buy me a good all-mountain ski" and you'll get a good all-mountain ski. Whether it's the right one depends on details that rarely make it into a product listing: how much rocker it has, what's inside the core, and whether it wants to carve or slash. Here are three of the most popular skis in the 98–102 mm class, and the context your agent needs to choose between them.
- paid content: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/api/content/agentic-ski-shopping
- markdown: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/agents/agentic-ski-shopping

### Can MPP Save Content Creators?

- id: `making-agents-pay`
- type: article
- date: 2026-09-30
- tags: mpp, content
- summary: For 30 years we paid for content with our attention, and the ads only got more intrusive. The Machine Payments Protocol revives HTTP's forgotten 402 status code so creators get paid in money instead.
- paid content: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/api/content/making-agents-pay
- markdown: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/agents/making-agents-pay

### A Quiet Machine

- id: `a-quiet-machine`
- type: image
- date: 2026-07-05
- tags: art, generative, neon
- summary: A generative art still — concentric type-forms rendered as if a printing press dreamed in neon.
- paid content: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/api/content/a-quiet-machine
- markdown: https://api.contentsnotdead.com/agents/a-quiet-machine