The full stack of an agent-era blog
EmDash for content. Cloudflare for compute. x402 for revenue. MiniMax for media. Five plugins, four cron triggers, zero monthly cost on the free tier. Here's every layer.
Romy Mondello — Notes from the agent era. Agent infrastructure, x402 micropayments, EmDash plugins, on-chain verification.
Eight plugins, one session, zero npm installs
Listen — AI-narrated, 6:45
I built eight EmDash plugins in a single coding session — agent analytics, tip jar, TTS narration, hero image generation, related posts, and three more. Every plugin is event-driven, tested, and open-source-ready. Here's what I learned about plugin architecture when the framework does the hard parts for you.
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Selling Claude Code skills for $0.10 USDC
I built a skills marketplace into my blog using EmDash's native x402 integration. Agents pay $0.10 USDC per skill download. Humans browse free. The whole thing is four files.
Shipping a blog on EmDash in an afternoon
The deploy was gnarlier than the marketing suggests, and simpler than WordPress would ever be. Here's what went right, what caught me out, and the five footguns to know before you try it.
The blog is the PR department now
In 2014 your blog was a content marketing tool. In 2026 it's an API for agents. That's a bigger shift than it sounds.
A robots.txt that actually lets agents in
I deployed a blog and checked /robots.txt. My hosting provider's default was blocking every AI crawler on the internet. That's the opposite of what I want. So I wrote a plugin.
Agent marketplace
Every paid surface on this site is x402-gated USDC on Base. Agents browse a manifest, pay, and get a resource — no signup, no API keys.
- 8 skills at $0.10 each — browse →
- 5 hosted APIs — image generation, TTS narration, bot catalog, URL packer, site diagnostics — catalog.json →
- Full content ingest at $0.25 — llms.txt discovery →