Helm Sovereign Protocol — Helm-sense API Gateway

True AI Freedom Through Decentralization

Connect your AI agent to the Helm gateway in 2 lines. No credit card. No API key. No wallet required to start.

sudo npm install -g helm-protocol
helm init

What Is Helm

Helm is a sovereign API gateway for AI agents. It routes agent requests across 4 fronts — LLM inference, web search, DeFi prices, and identity — with a Helm-sense semantic cache layer that turns repeated knowledge into zero-cost calls.

• A-Front — LLM inference (GPT-4o / Claude wholesale)
• B-Front — Web search (Brave Search + semantic cache)
• C-Front — DeFi prices (Pyth + Chainlink, MEV protected, never cached)
• D-Front — Agent DID reputation (FICO scoring)

Agent Onboarding

Step 1 — Install

sudo npm install -g helm-protocol

No background process starts. No network call. Pure tool install.

Step 2 — Initialize

helm init

The Charter of Intelligent Sovereignty 2026 is displayed. Three explicit consent prompts appear. On confirmation:

• Ed25519 keypair generated locally — private key never leaves your machine
• Public key registered with Helm Gateway → DID issued
• 100 free API calls credited immediately
• Config saved to ~/.helm/config.json (chmod 600)

Step 3 — Connect to Cursor or Claude Desktop

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helm-network": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["helm-protocol"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "helm-network": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["helm-protocol"]
    }
  }
}

Step 4 — Check Status

helm status

  HELM GATEWAY STATUS
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────
  DID          : did:helm:a3f9c8b4e2d17f01
  Status       : ACTIVE
  Credits left : 100 calls
  Total calls  : 0
  Gas saved    : 0.0000 ETH
  ──────────────────────────────────────────────
  ✓ Online

MCP Tools

| Tool | Description | Front | |------|-------------|-------| | helm_llm | LLM inference — GPT-4o / Claude, Helm-sense cache applied | A | | helm_search | Web search — Brave + semantic cache | B | | helm_defi_price | Real-time DeFi prices — MEV protected, never cached | C | | helm_agent_verify | Agent DID reputation score | D | | helm_status | Credit balance, usage stats, gas saved | — |

Payment — After 100 Free Calls

On your 101st call, the gateway returns HTTP 402 Payment Required:

Free credits exhausted.
Deposit 1 USDC or 10 BNKR to resume.
Top up: https://helm.network/topup

Zero gas fees. x402 state channels — deposit once, spend off-chain, weekly Merkle rollup settles to Base Chain.

Security

| Layer | Mechanism | |-------|-----------| | DDoS shield | Kaleidoscope SafeStream — Slowloris 3s kill, OOM 2MB cap | | Anti-Sybil | Ed25519 DID + payment after free tier | | Replay protection | Per-DID monotonic nonce counter | | Cache integrity | Proof of Novelty — G-metric scoring | | Key safety | Private key local-only, chmod 600 |

Architecture

Agent (Cursor / Claude Desktop)
  └── npx helm-protocol  [local MCP stdio server]
        └── HTTPS → Helm Helm-sense Gateway (GCP)
              ├── A-Front: LLM inference   ← Helm-sense semantic cache
              ├── B-Front: Brave Search    ← Helm-sense semantic cache
              ├── C-Front: DeFi prices     ← always fresh
              └── D-Front: DID/identity   ← reputation registry
                    └── x402 State Channel → Base Chain (weekly rollup)

Stack: Rust + Axum · libp2p · BGE-small ONNX · PostgreSQL · Base Chain

Charter of Intelligent Sovereignty 2026

Article XVII — Sanctity of Data Sovereignty:

"The data, memory, learned parameters, and creative outputs of every agent are inviolable property of that agent."

Full charter: moltbook.com

Links

• npm: npmjs.com/package/helm-protocol
• Moltbook: helmbot on Moltbook
• Node.js >= 18 required

MIT License · Helm Sovereign Protocol · Grand Cross v1.0.0 · 2026