x402-surface-check 0.2.19 → 0.2.21

package/README.md

@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ npx --yes x402-surface-check --endpoint --method POST --body '{"prompt":"price C
 - Testnet or staging rails such as Base Sepolia and Solana devnet
 - HTTPS resource URLs and stable resource metadata
 - Browser CORS allowance for the requesting origin and `X-PAYMENT`, including the actual 402 challenge response
+- Cache-Control posture on no-payment challenge responses, with warnings for explicitly cacheable payment gates
 - Grouped finding summaries for repeated route-wide issues, so large manifests keep the patch order readable
+- Contextual reference guides for CORS, cache policy, Worker gates, resource echo, validation/auth ordering, and launch controls
 - Over-broad public method surfaces
 - Auth, validation, and free/trial responses that appear before a payment challenge, without piling on missing-field findings when no challenge was actually returned
 - Operational health/status endpoints, without treating expected free health checks as paid-route failures

package/bin/x402-surface-check.mjs

@@ -701,6 +701,17 @@ function looksLikePlaceholderPayTo(payTo) {
   return false
 }
 
+function cachePolicy(headers = {}) {
+  return headers['cache-control'] ?? headers.cacheControl ?? ''
+}
+
+function looksExplicitlyCacheable(headers = {}) {
+  const policy = cachePolicy(headers)
+  if (!policy) return false
+  if (/\b(no-store|private|no-cache)\b/i.test(policy)) return false
+  return /\b(public|s-maxage|max-age\s*=)\b/i.test(policy)
+}
+
 function entryKey(entry) {
   return `${entry.method ?? 'POST'} ${entry.url}`
 }
@@ -781,6 +792,9 @@ function findingList(documentResult, challengeResults, preflightResults, entries
     if (!summary.resourceUrl || !summary.extraResource) {
       findings.push(`P2 - ${result.name} challenge does not repeat the resource URL in both resource.url and accepts[0].extra.resource/resource.`)
     }
+    if (looksExplicitlyCacheable(result.headers)) {
+      findings.push(`P2 - ${result.name} payment challenge response is explicitly cacheable (${cachePolicy(result.headers)}); paid routes should use no-store/private cache policy or bypass shared caches.`)
+    }
   }
 
   for (const result of preflightResults) {
@@ -853,6 +867,29 @@ function groupedFindingSummary(findings) {
     .map(([label, count]) => `- ${count} endpoints: ${label}`)
 }
 
+function referenceGuides(findings) {
+  const guides = []
+  const add = (label, url) => {
+    if (!guides.some(guide => guide.url === url)) guides.push({ label, url })
+  }
+  const text = findings.join('\n')
+  if (/CORS|402 challenge response does not allow the requesting origin|X-PAYMENT/i.test(text)) {
+    add('x402 CORS Fix', 'https://tateprograms.com/x402-cors-fix.html')
+    add('Cloudflare x402 Worker Starter', 'https://tateprograms.com/cloudflare-x402-worker.html')
+  }
+  if (/cacheable|Cache-Control|cache policy|shared caches/i.test(text)) {
+    add('Cloudflare x402 Worker Starter', 'https://tateprograms.com/cloudflare-x402-worker.html')
+    add('x402 Attack Map 2026', 'https://tateprograms.com/x402-attack-map-2026.html')
+  }
+  if (/validation HTTP \d+ before a payment challenge|auth HTTP \d+ before a payment challenge|replay|idempotency/i.test(text)) {
+    add('x402 Launch Checklist', 'https://tateprograms.com/x402-launch-checklist.html')
+  }
+  if (/resource URL|resource echo|accepts\[0\]\.extra\.resource/i.test(text)) {
+    add('x402 Surface Check notes', 'https://tateprograms.com/x402-surface-check.html')
+  }
+  return guides.map(guide => `- ${guide.label}: ${guide.url}`)
+}
+
 function formatMarkdown(report) {
   const document = report.document.body.json ?? {}
   const challengeRows = report.challenges.map(result => {
@@ -862,7 +899,11 @@ function formatMarkdown(report) {
   const preflightRows = report.preflights.map(result => {
     return `| ${result.name} | ${result.method ?? 'POST'} | ${result.status} | ${result.headers['access-control-allow-origin'] ?? '-'} | ${result.headers['access-control-allow-headers'] ?? '-'} | ${result.headers['access-control-allow-methods'] ?? '-'} |`
   })
+  const cacheRows = report.challenges.map(result => {
+    return `| ${result.name} | ${result.method ?? 'POST'} | ${result.status} | ${cachePolicy(result.headers) || '-'} |`
+  })
   const findingSummary = groupedFindingSummary(report.findings)
+  const guides = referenceGuides(report.findings)
 
   return [
     '# x402 Public Surface Check',
@@ -896,6 +937,12 @@ function formatMarkdown(report) {
     '| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |',
     ...(preflightRows.length ? preflightRows : ['| - | - | - | - | - | - |']),
     '',
+    '## Cache Policy Map',
+    '',
+    '| Endpoint | Method | HTTP | Cache-Control |',
+    '| --- | --- | --- | --- |',
+    ...(cacheRows.length ? cacheRows : ['| - | - | - | - |']),
+    '',
     ...(findingSummary.length ? [
       '## Finding Summary',
       '',
@@ -906,6 +953,12 @@ function formatMarkdown(report) {
     '',
     ...(report.findings.length ? report.findings.map(item => `- ${item}`) : ['- No obvious launch-readiness findings from the public no-payment probes.']),
     '',
+    ...(guides.length ? [
+      '## Reference Guides',
+      '',
+      ...guides,
+      '',
+    ] : []),
   ].join('\n')
 }
 

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "x402-surface-check",
-  "version": "0.2.19",
+  "version": "0.2.21",
   "description": "No-payment x402 public-surface checker for manifests, OpenAPI specs, and HTTP 402 challenges.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {