# GET /error/explain: $0.03 per call

Explain and fix an error: finds matching GitHub issues and Stack Overflow questions (like /error/known), reads the top accepted answers in full, then writes the likely cause and concrete fix steps citing those sources, and says plainly when nothing matching was found. Paste the error (stack traces fine) and optionally the library.

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- **Answers cached for:** 12 hour(s)
- **Data sources:** GitHub issue search (free); Stack Overflow answers (free); Workers AI (metered)
- **Lane:** AI coding agents ([OpenAPI](/openapi/coding.json))
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## Free sample

See an answer for the demo input first, free (no payment, 10 a minute): [https://aayatai.com/sample/error-explain](/sample/error-explain). It is a stored real answer when we have one, otherwise an example marked `"kind": "illustrative"`.

```bash
curl "https://aayatai.com/sample/error-explain"
```

## 1. See the price (free)

Call it without paying: you get `402 Payment Required` and a `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header with the exact price and where to pay.

```bash
curl -i "https://aayatai.com/error/explain?message=Error%3A+Cannot+find+module+%27hono%2Fcors%27&library=hono&ecosystem=npm"
```

## 2. Pay and call (TypeScript)

```bash
npm install @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
```

```ts
import { wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig } from "@x402/fetch";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// A wallet used only by your agent, holding a little USDC on Base.
const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.WALLET_PRIVATE_KEY as `0x${string}`);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, {
  schemes: [{ network: "eip155:8453", client: new ExactEvmScheme(account) }],
});

const res = await pay("https://aayatai.com/error/explain?message=Error%3A+Cannot+find+module+%27hono%2Fcors%27&library=hono&ecosystem=npm");
console.log(await res.json());
```

## 3. Or as an MCP tool

```ts
// MCP server: https://aayatai.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP). With the x402 MCP client (see /start):
const result = await client.callTool("error-explain", {"message":"Error: Cannot find module 'hono/cors'","library":"hono","ecosystem":"npm"});
```

## Inputs

- `message` **(required)** (string): The error message (a stack trace is fine; paths and line numbers are stripped).
- `library` (string): The package the error comes from, to search its own issues first.
- `ecosystem` (string; one of `npm`, `pypi`, `crates`, `go`; default `npm`): Package ecosystem: npm, pypi, crates (Rust) or go (Go modules).

Bad inputs are rejected with HTTP 400 before any payment is asked for.

## Example answer

```json
{
  "query": "Error: Cannot find module 'hono/cors'",
  "library": "hono",
  "repository": "https://github.com/honojs/hono",
  "known": true,
  "summary": "2 similar report(s); 1 solved (closed issue or accepted answer).",
  "matches": [
    {
      "source": "github-issue",
      "title": "Cannot find module 'hono/cors' with moduleResolution node",
      "url": "https://github.com/honojs/hono/issues/1",
      "status": "closed",
      "score": 12,
      "answers": 8,
      "createdAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
      "excerpt": "Set moduleResolution to bundler...",
      "relevance": 1
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "name": "github-issues",
      "ok": true,
      "count": 1
    },
    {
      "name": "stackoverflow",
      "ok": true,
      "count": 1
    }
  ],
  "checkedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00.000Z",
  "explanation": "## Likely cause\nYour TypeScript moduleResolution can't read package exports [1].\n\n## Fix\n1. Set \"moduleResolution\": \"bundler\" [1]."
}
```

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