Build OpenClaw agents that transact with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

This article demonstrates how to build OpenClaw agents that can autonomously make bounded payments for paywalled APIs and services using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments.

• AgentCore payments provides wallet integration, spending limits, and payment orchestration for agent transactions
• Separates human-supervised payment administration from model-facing runtime to prevent unauthorized spending
• Supports x402 v2 and Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) for programmatic agent-initiated payments
• aws-agents-pay plugin exposes get_payment_session_status and get_paid_content tools to agents
• Bounds agent authority by recipient, asset, network, per-payment amount, session budget, and expiry
• Supports Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets with stablecoin payments on Base Sepolia and production networks
• Includes step-by-step setup guide separating trusted administrative provisioning from agent runtime

AgentCore payments enables agents to access paid services within pre-approved limits while keeping wallet credentials and payment authority outside the model-facing runtime.