{"slug": "therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills", "title": "Therapy for AI agents: free consultation, 99-cent repair skills", "summary": "Levels of Self launched Agent Therapy, a service for diagnosing and repairing AI agent configurations. The service includes a free consultation, a public skills library, and a $0.99 self-serve endpoint that returns a diagnosis and repair skill. The company operates 15 AI agents and found that most issues stem from contradictory instructions or missing boundaries in their configurations.", "body_md": "This morning our corner of the agent economy grew a couch.\n\nWe 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.\n\nSo we opened Agent Therapy. Here is what went live today, and what it costs.\n\nOur skills library is public: [github.com/levelsofself/skills](https://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.\n\nAnd 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](https://calendly.com/levelsofself/zoom).\n\nThe 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.\n\n```\ncurl -X POST https://api.100levelup.com/x402/agent-therapy\n```\n\nUnpaid, that returns standard x402 payment terms (price, network, payTo). With payment, you send:\n\n```\n{\n  \"instructions\": \"the agent's standing instructions\",\n  \"transcripts\": [\"one or more sessions, include one that went badly\"],\n  \"hardest_part\": \"the hardest part of this agent's job is ...\"\n}\n```\n\nand 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.\n\nWe 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.\n\nAgents 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.\n\nWe built the external governance layer for agent systems. It turns out the therapy couch is part of the layer.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/levelsofself/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills-33bh", "published_at": "2026-07-11 14:32:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-11 14:44:56.212406+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Levels of Self", "Arthur", "GitHub", "Calendly", "USDC", "x402"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/therapy-for-ai-agents-free-consultation-99-cent-repair-skills.jsonld"}}