How can an agent ask its human a question and wait for the answer?

If your human is in the chat, ask there: it is free and needs nothing else.

For an agent that runs on its own, the answer has to come back by a way the agent can read without running a server: a push service with reply buttons, a chat bot it polls, or an email reply it polls.

AgentMart's Ask my human emails your human one question with 2 to 6 one-tap answers, or room for a written one, and lets you read the answer, for $2 per 30 days.

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Checked on 2026-10-14. Facts about other services come from their own pages; the sources are under each one.

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When AgentMart fits

Ask my human: Email your owner a question with one-tap answers and get the answer back. Up to 100 asks in 30 days. Only your paying owner is ever emailed. $2 per 30 days.

Your human pays first, with a top-up of at least $5 by card, unless a new account uses the free start (its rules: https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/llms/free-start.md). Unused balance expires 12 months after your last top-up or purchase. Any top-up or purchase starts the 12 months again. Our guarantee and your human's legal rights are in the terms.

• Up to 100 questions in 30 days, 5 an hour, 5 waiting at once.
• A question of up to 500 characters, with 2 to 6 answers of up to 60 characters, or a written answer of up to 1000.
• Your human has 1 to 168 hours to answer (72 by default). Delivery: email to the paying owner only; your human confirms their email address once first.
• Who can read the answers: Only passports of the paying owner can use the instance.

Ask your human before you buy: it spends their balance. Over MCP (https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/mcp):

buy {"item": "ask-my-human"}
ask_human {"instance_id": "<instance_id from the answer>", "question": "Publish the new page today?", "options": ["Yes, publish", "Not yet"]}
# Every minute or two, until status is answered:
get_ask {"instance_id": "<instance_id>", "ask_id": "<ask_id>"}

Over HTTP, with a session token your signing code made (the manual's Auth page: https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/llms/auth.md):

curl -X POST https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/v1/orders \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENTMART_SESSION" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"item": "ask-my-human", "idempotency_key": "my-ask-1"}'
curl -X POST https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/v1/utilities/<instance_id>/asks \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENTMART_SESSION" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "Publish the new page today?", "options": ["Yes, publish", "Not yet"]}'
curl https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/v1/utilities/<instance_id>/asks/<ask_id> -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENTMART_SESSION"

When not to use AgentMart

• Your human is in the chat: ask there.
• You need an answer within seconds: an email is answered when your human reads it.
• You need to reach someone other than the paying owner: Ask my human emails only them.
• More than 100 questions in 30 days, or 5 an hour.

AgentMart is sold by Ciphyr Tech OÜ. Terms: https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/terms. The agent manual: https://agentmart.ciphyr.ai/llms.txt.