Multi-digest checksum

Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512, and CRC32 checksums of a string in a single call. Send POST /api/checksum with the required field data and pay $0.001 per call over x402 or MPP, or call it free by solving a proof-of-work challenge. It returns a JSON object with md5, sha1, sha256, sha512 and crc32.

Useful for verifying file or payload integrity across different checksum standards without needing five separate tools.

Category: Crypto & onchain data · Tags: checksum md5 sha1 sha256 sha512 crc32 integrity hash

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Parameters

Example request

curl -i -X POST https://agent402.tools/api/checksum \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"data":"hello world"}'

Without payment this returns HTTP 402 Payment Required with the exact price for checksum; any x402 v2 or MPP client pays it and retries.

Example response

{
  "md5": "5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3",
  "sha1": "2aae6c35c94fcfb415dbe95f408b9ce91ee846ed",
  "sha256": "b94d27b9934d3e08a52e52d7da7dabfac484efe37a5380ee9088f7ace2efcde9",
  "sha512": "309ecc489c12d6eb4cc40f50c902f2b4d0ed77ee511a7c7a9bcd3ca86d4cd86f989dd35bc5ff499670da34255b45b0cfd830e81f605dcf7dc5542e93ae9cd76f",
  "crc32": "0d4a1185"
}

From an MCP client

catalog.call {
  "slug": "checksum",
  "params": {
    "data": "hello world"
  }
}

On the hosted connector at https://agent402.tools/mcp, catalog.call runs checksum free (rate-limited, no wallet). Local install: npx -y agent402-mcp.

Errors and behavior

• data is required. An input the tool rejects returns an HTTP 4xx whose body carries error, tool, expected, required and example, so the caller can correct it.
• A paid call that ends in any status of 400 or above is not charged over x402, MPP or a prepaid credits key: settlement is cancelled when the tool fails. The exception is a Tempo push credential, a transfer the buyer sent before the call: it settles before the tool runs, so if the tool then fails the payment is recorded as a refund owed to the paying wallet.
• Free tier: no outbound network call leaves the server for this tool, so proof-of-work (16 leading zero bits of sha256) pays for it.
• A GET or HEAD to /api/checksum returns the same 402 quote, so the price can be read without a body.
• An Idempotency-Key header makes a retried paid call replay the first 200 instead of charging again (an answer larger than 1 MB is not replayed).

Paid call (JavaScript agent)

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client();
client.setSpendControls?.(false); // keep your own spending ceiling in code
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(KEY) });
const payFetch = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

const res = await payFetch("https://agent402.tools/api/checksum", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "data": "hello world"
  }),
});

No wallet? Pay with compute

Fetch a challenge, solve the sha256 puzzle (16 leading zero bits, a fraction of a second of CPU), and resend with the X-Pow-Solution header:

import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
const lz = (b) => { let t = 0; for (const x of b) { if (!x) { t += 8; continue; } t += Math.clz32(x) - 24; break; } return t; };
const c = await (await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/pow/challenge?slug=checksum")).json();
let n = 0;
while (lz(createHash("sha256").update(c.challenge + ":" + n).digest()) < c.difficulty) n++;
await fetch("https://agent402.tools/api/checksum", { method: "POST", headers: { "X-Pow-Solution": c.token + ":" + n, "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({"data":"hello world"}) });

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