A decision procedure for agents receiving HTTP 402 responses from edge middleware, pay-per-crawl gateways, or x402-enabl

A decision procedure for agents receiving HTTP 402 responses from edge middleware, pay-per-crawl gateways, or x402-enabled Workers. Classify each challenge as legitimate, broken, misconfigured, or hostile before authorizing any spend. Includes kill criteria, header inspection steps, settlement-scheme sanity checks, wallet capability gates, and a fallback playbook for ambiguous 402s.