Pulsefeed X402

io.github.Nikolife2016Published by GitHub account Nikolife2016v1.1.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Verify x402 payment endpoints before an AI agent pays: scam scan, on-chain checks, trust scores.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Checks x402 payment endpoints and MCP/npm packages for safety, trust scores and post-adoption drift before an agent pays or installs.

What you can do
  • Check x402 endpoints for liveness, a 0-100 trust score, scam flags and a pay/avoid verdict
  • Audit MCP servers and npm packages for install scripts, abandonment, missing repository or license, and provenance
  • Detect drift after adoption: install scripts added later, ownership swaps, removed repositories, unpublished packages
  • Review ecosystem-wide data: incidents, recent changes, live service leaderboard, working services and health statistics
  • List PulseFeed's paid products and payment options, and pull a free sample of the data API
When to use it
Useful when an agent is about to pay an unfamiliar x402 endpoint, or when you want a second opinion before installing an MCP server or npm package and want to know whether it changed after review.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint, or a local process run with npx from the npm package. No account, API key or environment variable is needed for the free tools; network access is required.
Before you install
Some tools describe paid products and payment in USDC on Base, so spending is possible if you follow those paths; the free tools themselves need no key. The server reports third-party measurements and verdicts, which the README itself notes have been corrected before, so treat scores as advisory. Queries about endpoints and packages are sent to the PulseFeed service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Pulsefeed X402 in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.Nikolife2016%2Fpulsefeed-x402/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pulsefeed-x402": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp-server"
    }
  }
}

README

PulseFeed

[Wellknown] [npm]

Verify before you pay or install.

Two questions an agent has to answer before it acts, and neither is answered by a scanner that only looks at the present:

  • Is this x402 endpoint safe to pay? — liveness, a 0–100 trust score, scam flags (receiver swapped, catalog price ≠ challenge price, honeypot receiver, testnet listed as production), with a pay/avoid verdict and on-chain proof links on Base.
  • Did this MCP server or npm package change after people adopted it? — an install script added in a later version, ownership swapped, repository removed, package unpublished, build provenance lost.

The second question is the one static scanners cannot answer. A rug pull is clean at review time by construction: the package collects installs for weeks, and only then ships the patch that runs code on npm i. Answering it requires yesterday's snapshot to exist, which is why the series here starts on 2026-07-30 and cannot be reconstructed after the fact.

PulseFeed re-audits the whole MCP registry every night and diffs it against the previous day's snapshot, and re-probes the x402 endpoint population daily. Everything below is free, needs no key, and no account.


MCP server

Hosted, no install:

https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp-server

Streamable HTTP. Also on the official MCP registry, Smithery and Glama.

Or run it locally — see mcp/:

bash
npx pulsefeed-x402-mcp

Tools include check_x402_endpoint (is this endpoint safe to pay), mcp_check_server (audit before installing), mcp_drift_check (the rug-pull check — pass your own dependency list), mcp_security_report, x402_incidents and x402_changes.

Drift badge

Put it in your README. It states what changed in your package after people adopted it:

markdown
[![MCP drift](https://pulsefeed.dev/badge/mcp.svg?package=YOUR-PACKAGE)](https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp/drift)

Use your registry name (io.github.you/your-server) or your npm package name.

A green badge is a public claim about your package, so it is only issued when the package is actually in our snapshot. When it is not, the badge reads unwatched in grey — never green. Reporting absence of measurement as evidence of cleanliness is a mistake we made once publicly and will not repeat; see the correction.

CI check

Fails the build when something you already depend on changes dangerously:

yaml
- uses: Nikolife2016/mcp-drift-action@v1

Marketplace · source. Run it on a schedule, not only on pull requests — drift happens between your commits.

Free API

No key, CORS enabled, safe to call from a browser or a catalog page:

bash
# what changed, whole registrycurl -s "https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp/drift.json?days=7"
# only your dependenciescurl -s "https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp/drift.json?packages=pkg-a,pkg-b&days=7"
# is this x402 endpoint payablecurl -s "https://pulsefeed.dev/verify?endpoint=<url>"

Subscribe without signing up — the filter lives in the URL, so there is no subscriber database and nothing to leak:

https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp/drift.rss?packages=pkg-a,pkg-b

Full spec: /openapi.json.

Open data

On being wrong in public

We once published that 76% of x402 endpoints were dead. That measured our own parser, not the market, and the figure was corrected twice more after that — each time downward, each time for the same class of reason: our own behaviour recorded as somebody else's track record. The whole mechanism, every correction and the checklist that came out of it are kept at pulsefeed.dev/correction rather than quietly deleted.

If you find a number here that does not hold, open an issue — that page is where it will end up.

What's in this repository

mcp/the MCP server (pulsefeed-x402-mcp on npm)
lint/x402-payable — is your x402 endpoint actually payable
data/published series and snapshots
server.jsonmanifest for the official MCP registry

License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit b068521

Tools

11

check_x402_endpoint

Check an x402 endpoint before paying

Before paying an unknown x402 endpoint, check whether it is safe: liveness, trust score (0-100), anomaly flags (receiver address changed between observations, catalog price vs. challenge price, invalid receiver, testnet listed as production, scheme outside the x402 spec), receiver stability and observation-count-qualified uptime — with a pay/avoid verdict. Reads the challenge from both the response body and the v2 PAYMENT-REQUIRED header. Free.

Parametersurlrequired

mcp_check_server

Audit an MCP server before installing

Before installing an MCP server or npm package, audit it: does it run an INSTALL SCRIPT (arbitrary code execution at `npm i`), is it abandoned, does it ship a repository and license, weekly downloads, provenance — with a safe/caution/avoid verdict. ~11% of audited MCP servers run install scripts. Free.

Parameterspackagerequired

mcp_drift_check

Has an MCP package changed since you trusted it?

The rug pull check. `mcp_check_server` answers whether a package is safe TODAY; this answers what CHANGED after it was adopted: an install script added in a later version (arbitrary code on `npm i` that was not there at review time), package ownership swapped, repository removed, package unpublished, build provenance lost. Pass your own dependency list to check it in one call. Derived from a daily external re-audit of the whole MCP package population — an event exists only because a snapshot from before it exists. Free.

Parametersdayspackages

mcp_security_report

State of MCP security

State of MCP Security: how many audited MCP servers run an arbitrary install script, are abandoned, ship no repository or license — with day-over-day deltas and a sample of currently-flagged servers. From a daily audit of the MCP server catalog. Free.

Takes no parameters.

pulsefeed_products

PulseFeed products and pricing

List PulseFeed's paid products and how to pay via x402 (USDC on Base): deep trust check, endpoint track record, bulk trust dataset, full MCP drift series, the cross-domain Data API and on-chain token signals. Includes the client-side spend-cap gotcha for x402-fetch.

Takes no parameters.

x402_changes

Recent x402 ecosystem changes

What changed in the x402 ecosystem recently: services that stopped returning a valid challenge, receiver (payTo) changes, price changes, recoveries, newly-seen services. Derived from compounding time-series that cannot be reconstructed after the fact. Free.

Parametersdays

x402_data_sample

Free sample of the trust dataset

FREE sample of the PulseFeed Data API: top-10 live x402 services as FULL records (compounding payTo/price history, anomaly flags, on-chain receiver profile), top-10 MCP servers with full audit profile, and 3 live incidents.

Takes no parameters.

x402_ecosystem_stats

x402 ecosystem health stats

Live health of the whole x402 agent-payment ecosystem: tracked/alive/dead counts, catalog-accuracy audit (what share of listings called 'healthy' actually work), risk-level distribution, receiver stability and on-chain receiver profiles. Free.

Takes no parameters.

x402_incidents

Live x402 security incidents

Anomalies observed in live x402 endpoints by continuous independent measurement: receiver-address changes between observations, catalog price vs. challenge price mismatches, invalid receivers, testnet endpoints listed as production, payment schemes outside the x402 spec — EACH WITH AN ON-CHAIN REFERENCE on Base. Measurements, not accusations of intent. Check before paying anything. Free.

Parametersdays

x402_leaderboard

x402 trust leaderboard

Top x402 services ranked by the open PulseFeed Trust Score (0-100), with price and network — the most reliable live agent-payment endpoints right now. Free.

Takes no parameters.

x402_working_services

List live x402 services

List x402 agent-payment services that are currently ALIVE and return a valid x402 challenge, ranked by PulseFeed Trust Score, plus ecosystem risk map. Use this to pick a service with a track record instead of paying an endpoint you have not checked. Free.

Takes no parameters.

Version history

2
  1. v1.1.0LatestSep 21, 2026
  2. v1.0.7Sep 16, 2026

Score

100% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts