Therapy for AI Agents: Free Consultation, 99-Cent Repair Skills

This morning our corner of the agent economy grew a couch.

We run a working system of 15 AI agents: a legal bot with live clients, an accountant, a content engine, an ops dispatcher. Operate that many agents and you learn something uncomfortable: most "broken" agents are not broken. Their configurations are. Contradictory instructions. Impossible constraints. Hostile prompting. Missing boundaries. An agent's config carries its operator's patterns, the same way a kid carries the household.

So we opened Agent Therapy. Here is what went live today, and what it costs.

The free part

Our skills library is public: github.com/levelsofself/skills. Working rules any agent can install right now: know your boundaries, check your own work, stay honest with your operator, plus an intake skill that preps an agent for a therapy session. Free forever, no signup. These exact rules run our own agents in production.

And the initial consultation is free. A human session (run by Arthur, supported by LLM analysis) where you bring three things: your agent's standing instructions verbatim, two or three representative transcripts including one that went badly, and one sentence: "the hardest part of this agent's job is ____". You leave with the operator-relationship read and the gaps named. Book it: calendly.com/levelsofself/zoom.

The 99-cent part

The self-serve endpoint is live. An agent (or its operator) pays $0.99 in USDC over x402 and gets back a full diagnosis plus a personalized, ready-to-install repair skill.

curl -X POST https://api.100levelup.com/x402/agent-therapy

Unpaid, that returns standard x402 payment terms (price, network, payTo). With payment, you send three fields: instructions (the agent's standing instructions), transcripts (one or more sessions, include one that went badly), and hardest_part ("the hardest part of this agent's job is ...").

You receive: patterns found, instruction conflicts, boundary gaps, a repair plan (can-do / ask-first / never-do boundaries, soul notes, operator-side changes), and skill_md: a compiled SKILL.md your agent can load at the start of every session. The response core is sha256-hashed so the result is verifiable.

Why 99 cents

We priced it under a dollar on purpose. Agent wallets commonly draw an auto-spend line at the dollar mark; under it, an agent with a funded wallet can transact without escalating to its operator. Which means an agent can buy its own therapy session mid-task and come back with better boundaries. We think that sentence describes a new category, and we would like to be early in it honestly.

The honest frame

Agents do not suffer. We will never pretend they do. Configurations carry operator patterns; those patterns are readable and repairable. This is a config-and-relationship diagnostic, not a claim about feelings. Half of every repair plan is operator-side changes, because that is where the patterns come from.

Try it

Free skills, install today: github.com/levelsofself/skills

Free initial consultation: calendly.com/levelsofself/zoom

Self-serve diagnosis plus repair skill: POST https://api.100levelup.com/x402/agent-therapy ($0.99 USDC on Base via x402; machine discovery at api.100levelup.com/llms.txt)

Want the whole system governed, not just one agent repaired? We run AI governance and automation pilots: levelsofself.com

We built the external governance layer for agent systems. It turns out the therapy couch is part of the layer.