@nibiashara/shelves

Pay-per-call APIs for AI agents — no API key, no signup, no subscription.

US freight checks (FMCSA carrier authority, safety BASICs, broker authority), OFAC sanctions screening, and African FX rates (official + street/parallel). Your agent pays per call in USDC on Base over the x402 protocol, or spends credits from a prepaid pass.

Full docs: https://agents.nibiashara.biz/docs

npm i @nibiashara/shelves

Try it with no install

npx @nibiashara/shelves              # free FX sample, live catalog, MCP config
npx @nibiashara/shelves --try fx     # live official FX preview (add --pair USD-NGN)
npx @nibiashara/shelves --try ofac   # OFAC sanctions screen preview, fixed sample input
npx @nibiashara/shelves --try fmcsa  # FMCSA carrier authority preview, fixed sample input
npx @nibiashara/shelves --mcp        # just the MCP client config

Every command is a free GET. The compliance previews run the real shelf on one fixed sample input, cached for up to 6 hours; they never screen your own party.

Start with a free sample

import { Shelves } from "@nibiashara/shelves";

const shelves = new Shelves();
console.log(await shelves.hello()); // cached USD-KES sample, no payment
console.log(await shelves.catalogPolicy()); // current prices and protocol
console.log(await shelves.fxSample("fx-official", { pair: "USD-NGN" })); // live official preview
console.log(await shelves.complianceSample("sanctions-screen")); // fixed-input OFAC preview

The sample carries its source date and is not a fresh upstream quote. A cache miss is reported as unavailable. Freight and sanctions checks are paid shelves; the free previews run them on fixed sample inputs only.

Use a pass (simplest — no wallet needed)

Read the live /catalog entry for shelf-pass-100 and /catalog-policy before buying. The service defines the current price, credit count and eligible shelves; this client does not freeze a quoted price. A credit is a cent of eligible shelf value, so different shelves spend different numbers of credits.

Card-funded packs are separate offers; check their displayed prices/credits. Keep SHELF_PASS secret: it is a bearer credential with prepaid value.

import { Shelves } from "@nibiashara/shelves";

const shelves = new Shelves({ pass: process.env.SHELF_PASS });

// Should we tender this load?
const carrier = await shelves.carrierAuthority({ dot: "44110" });
if (carrier.verdict !== "CLEAR") console.log("hold:", carrier.flags);

// Is this counterparty sanctioned?
const screen = await shelves.sanctionsScreen({ name: "Example Trading Co" });
// screen.verdict === "CLEAR" | "REVIEW" | "HIT"

console.log(await shelves.creditsRemaining()); // actual server balance

Or pay per call with a wallet

Bring any x402-capable fetch (e.g. @x402/fetch + @x402/evm) and the client uses it — each call settles its own micro-payment. The payment client is separate from this dependency-free package. Install @x402/fetch, @x402/core and @x402/evm in the caller's application. Follow the official buyer quickstart to supply an authorized wallet signer with USDC on Base and enforce a spending limit before making paid calls.

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { Shelves } from "@nibiashara/shelves";

// `signer` is supplied by your existing authorized wallet integration.
const paymentClient = new x402Client();
paymentClient.register("eip155:8453", new ExactEvmScheme(signer));
const shelves = new Shelves({ fetch: wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, paymentClient) });
// Explicit opt-in: this call pays the current catalog price in USDC on Base.
if (process.env.SHELVES_PAID_CALL === "yes") {
  const carrier = await shelves.carrierAuthority({ dot: "44110" });
  console.log(carrier.verdict);
}

Shelves

| Method | Shelf | | --- | --- | | carrierAuthority({dot\|mc}) | FMCSA authority, safety rating, operating status | | carrierSafetyBasics({dot}) | FMCSA SMS safety data, subject to availability and access restrictions | | brokerAuthority({mc}) | FMCSA broker authority status | | sanctionsScreen({name}) | OFAC SDN + Consolidated screen, ~40k names | | fxOfficial({pair}) | Central-bank reference rate | | fxOfficialAll() | All eight African pairs | | fxParallel({pair}) | Street rate + spread (USD-NGN, USD-GHS) | | fxDailyBrief() | Every official + parallel quote in one call | | buy(sku, params) | Any shelf by id — see /catalog |

Verdicts are deterministic rules-engine output, never an LLM guess. Sanctions data is refreshed daily from the U.S. Treasury OFAC list service; FMCSA data is fetched live per call.

Connect a remote MCP client

Use the hosted Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint: https://agents.nibiashara.biz/mcp. In a client that supports remote MCP, add that URL as a remote server; no local server deployment is required. An illustrative client configuration (field names vary by client):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shelves": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agents.nibiashara.biz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or use Glama's remote Shelves connector and Inspector. The connector is separate from this client repository's local-deployment label. Discovery does not require a payment credential; paid tools still require the advertised payment flow or an eligible pass. A bare browser GET is not an MCP initialization or tool-call test. Never put a pass token in a public config.

Also available as

• MCP server — https://agents.nibiashara.biz/mcp (registry id biz.nibiashara/shelves)
• Google A2A agent — card at /.well-known/agent-card.json, JSON-RPC at /a2a
• OpenAPI — /openapi.json, with x-payment-info on every route
• PayAPI Market — the Africa FX official one-pair shelf is listed and settlement-verified: https://payapi.market/api/ni-biashara-africa-fx-official-one-pair

Notes

Screening and authority checks are decision aids, not legal advice. Confirm identity (DOB, address, ID numbers) before acting on a sanctions match, and verify insurance and surety bonds before tendering freight. FMCSA safety-data availability and access restrictions apply; public percentiles are not guaranteed.

MIT © Ni Biashara LLC

Protocol, free discovery and aggregate evidence

The free /hello cached sample, /catalog-policy and scoped /stats aggregate are deployed. The optional /free/fx quota is currently unavailable; inspect the live response before relying on free daily calls.

Native /shelf/:sku uses x402 v2. Older /api/fx/* routes retain their v1 JSON compatibility and advertise v2 headers where available. Read await shelves.catalogPolicy() for the supported paths and current prices; service intake price and full service price are different fields. No future price increase is promised here.

await shelves.hello() reads a tiny cached FX sample without a payment. A cache miss is reported honestly; it is not a new upstream quote. freeFx() requests the server's optional 10/day edge-IP quota. It can be unavailable until the server's storage, trusted edge identity and private quota binding are ready. A claimed wallet address does not grant free calls; a truncated address never grants repeat-wallet credits. There is no active repeat-wallet allowlist.

await shelves.stats() returns only the deployed ledger's scoped aggregate evidence with a timestamp. Unavailable coverage is not zero revenue. A settled payment, fulfilled data call, service intake, test transaction and unclassified payer are different states. A wallet is not a verified person, customer or agent. There is no public wallet leaderboard or public receipt screenshot.

Run dependency-free local checks with node --test offline.test.js. The existing test.js is a separate live smoke check and is not run by this offline command.