MCP x402 — Evidence-Backed Web Verification for AI Agents

Verify a seller, product, offer, policy, or claim before an agent acts

Give an AI agent a public HTTP(S) page and 1 to 10 concrete conditions. The verificar_condicoes tool returns an evidence-based decision for every condition:

• confirmado — the page clearly supports the condition.
• rejeitado — the page clearly contradicts the condition.
• incerto — the available page evidence is insufficient.

Each verification includes the final source URL, page title, timestamp, condition-by-condition explanation, quoted evidence when available, a unique verificationId, and a SHA-256 pageHash.

Designed for

• AI purchasing and procurement agents;
• seller, product and offer verification;
• pre-purchase due diligence;
• policy and terms checking;
• commercial automation that requires evidence before taking action.

Simple x402 integration

• Free preflight validation before payment.
• $0.05 USDC per verification on Base mainnet.
• No account or subscription required.
• Available through MCP and HTTP.
• Ready-to-run buyer included in this repository.
• Bazaar discovery metadata enabled on the paid HTTP and MCP surfaces.

Live endpoints

• MCP: https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/mcp
• Free MCP preflight: POST https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/preflight/mcp
• Free verification preflight: POST https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/preflight/verify-conditions
• Paid verification: POST https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/verify-conditions
• Health: GET https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/health

The service also provides paid public URL analysis and general AI consultation through analisar_url and consultar_ia.

Live Service

• Base URL: https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app
• Health check: GET /health
• MCP endpoint: POST /mcp
• Paid URL analysis: POST /analyze
• Price: $0.05 USDC per paid request
• Network: Base mainnet (eip155:8453)

Production Status

• Production deployment active on Railway
• x402 version 2 payment flow
• Base mainnet payments (eip155:8453)
• Paid HTTP endpoints return valid x402 challenges with Bazaar metadata
• MCP and HTTP payment, execution, settlement, and delivery confirmed on-chain
• MCP Bazaar metadata advertises the public HTTPS MCP server URL
• CDP native MCP catalog indexing is not yet claimed as confirmed; upstream tracking: coinbase/cdp-sdk#764

MCP Tools

Decision verification

verificar_condicoes — $0.05 USDC

A paid decision-verification tool for agents.

Give it a public URL and one or more concrete conditions. It returns a decision based only on evidence extracted from that page:

• confirmado — the page clearly proves the condition.
• rejeitado — the page clearly contradicts the condition.
• incerto — the page does not provide enough evidence.

Each result includes the final source URL, page title, verification timestamp, condition-by-condition explanation, and a short quoted proof where available.

Example conditions:

• “The page identifies the seller.”
• “The product is available in Portugal.”
• “The page shows a price in euros.”
• “The document states that the service supports x402.”

This is designed for agents that need an evidence-based decision before taking the next action.

Technology

• Node.js and TypeScript
• Express
• Model Context Protocol
• OpenAI Responses API
• x402 payments
• viem
• Cheerio
• Railway

Security

• HTTPS provided by Railway
• Helmet security headers
• Rate limit of 100 requests per 15 minutes
• Structured request logs with unique request IDs
• Host validation and Railway health-check support
• Restricted OpenAI API key with access only to /v1/responses
• Environment files and secrets excluded from Git

Environment Variables

Server

Local Buyer

Example local .env.test file:

EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=your_private_key_here

Local Development

Install dependencies:

npm install

Start the development server:

npm run dev

Build the project:

npm run build

Start the compiled server:

npm start

Health Check

The health endpoint is public and does not require payment:

curl https://mcp-x402-production.up.railway.app/health

Railway Log Diagnostics

Railway currently accepts --since for historical HTTP logs but rejects --until. On Windows PowerShell, export a bounded application and HTTP log window without using the broken flag:

.\scripts\export-railway-window.ps1 `
  -StartUtc "2026-08-22T16:31:22.401228537Z" `
  -EndUtc "2026-08-23T06:21:18.045229877Z" `
  -OutputPrefix "railway-diagnostic"

The script retrieves logs from the lower bound and applies the upper UTC bound locally using ordinal ISO-8601 comparison, which preserves Railway's nanosecond timestamps. It writes raw captures plus bounded app and http NDJSON files.

Analyze both bounded files while reading and validating every physical line:

npm run logs:analyze -- \
  --since "2026-08-22T16:31:22.401228537Z" \
  --pretty \
  --out railway-diagnostic-report.json \
  railway-diagnostic-app.ndjson railway-diagnostic-http.ndjson

The report includes per-file coverage, empty/valid/invalid line counts, timestamp bounds, separation of Diogo-*, RailwayHealthcheck, known probes or indexers and potentially external traffic, journey reconstruction and funnel stopping points. It joins application railwayRequestId values to Railway HTTP requestId values, understands HTTP clientUa, groups server-generated journey IDs by fingerprint and temporal proximity, and counts only accepted normalized feedback. It deliberately does not treat an isolated 402 as purchase intent and does not infer human identity or motivation from request metadata.

Ready-to-Run x402 Buyer

The repository includes ready-to-run buyers for applications and AI agents. The MCP buyer connects to the live service, validates the x402 payment requirements against Base mainnet USDC and a maximum payment of $0.05, signs the payment, retries the same tool call, and prints the settlement receipt and result.

Clone and prepare the buyer:

git clone https://github.com/Diogoup26/mcp-x402.git
cd mcp-x402
npm install

Create a local .env.test file in the project root:

EVM_PRIVATE_KEY=0xYOUR_64_HEX_CHARACTER_PRIVATE_KEY

Never commit .env.test or expose the private key.

Build the project:

npm run build

The following commands authorize real x402 payments on Base mainnet:

• consultar_ia: $0.02 USDC
• analisar_url: $0.05 USDC
• verificar_condicoes: $0.05 USDC

HTTP URL Analysis

npm run analyze -- "https://example.com" "Summarize this page."

HTTP Decision Verification

npm run verify -- "https://example.com" "The page identifies the seller."

MCP URL Analysis

npm run mcp:analyze -- "https://example.com" "Summarize this page."

MCP AI Consultation

npm run mcp:consult -- "Reply only with: MCP OK"

MCP Decision Verification

npm run mcp:verify -- "https://example.com" "The page identifies the seller."

A successful MCP payment prints:

• PAGAMENTO MCP: success
• the settlement receipt
• the tool response

The MCP buyer never prints the private key and rejects any payment that:

• is not on Base mainnet;
• does not use the configured Base USDC contract;
• exceeds $0.05 USDC.

Machine-Readable Payment Continuation

The discovery document at GET /.well-known/x402 and every successful free preflight response publish a complete continuation sequence. A compatible agent no longer has to infer what to do after the first unpaid request:

1. run the free preflight and keep its x-journey-id;
2. send the validated request without a payment signature;
3. read and verify the payment-required requirements;
4. authorize only the expected network, asset, amount and recipient;
5. retry the identical request with the x402 payment payload;
6. verify both delivery and the settlement receipt.

REST metadata recommends @x402/fetch; MCP metadata recommends @x402/mcp. Paid responses also link back to the discovery instructions through x-payment-instructions. They additionally publish an RFC 8288 Link header with the registered payment and help relations, so generic HTTP agents can discover the same machine-readable continuation and optional feedback path without depending on project-specific headers. The flow never requests a private key, Railway or GitHub credentials, or an OpenAI key.

Optional Conversion Feedback

Every paid HTTP or MCP response advertises x-feedback-endpoint and the allowed normalized reason, stage, and intent values. The free preflight responses include the same information in a feedback block. Feedback is submitted to POST /feedback, contains no free text, and never includes a private key, prompt, URL, page content, or payment payload.

The three buyers accept:

--feedback-reason <research_only|no_wallet|unsupported_network|insufficient_funds|spending_not_authorized|price|insufficient_value|integration_error|other>
--feedback-stage <discovery|preflight|payment|execution|delivery>
--feedback-intent <research|analyze_page|verify_conditions|general_question|evaluate_service|other>

When --feedback-reason is supplied without --feedback-stage, the stage defaults to payment and the buyer does not authorize a payment. The HTTP buyers first receive the unsigned 402 challenge, submit the explicit feedback, and stop. The MCP buyer stops after its free preflight and submits the explicit feedback without requiring a wallet.

Example: report that the price stopped an evaluation, without paying:

npm run analyze -- "https://example.com" "Summarize this page." --feedback-reason price --feedback-intent evaluate_service

To submit explicit feedback after a completed delivery, select that stage:

npm run mcp:consult -- "Reply only with: MCP OK" --feedback-reason other --feedback-stage delivery --feedback-intent general_question

Buyers automatically submit only integration_error, and only for an objectively detected technical failure such as failed discovery/preflight, an HTTP 5xx result, a paid MCP tool error, or a missing settlement receipt after a payment was made. They never infer price, research_only, no_wallet, or another human or commercial motivation.

Controlled Smoke Test (No Payment)

After deployment, validate discovery, preflight, the OpenAPI feedback contract, normalized feedback submission, HTTP 402 challenges and feedback headers, HTTP method handling, MCP initialization, tool discovery and the MCP x402 challenge:

npm run build
npm run smoke

Use SERVICE_URL to target another deployment. The test uses one persistent x-journey-id, sends User-Agent: Diogo-Smoke/1.2.9, verifies that the MCP x402 challenge advertises the public HTTPS endpoint with type=mcp and the correct toolName, and never creates or signs a payment.

The three payment buyers now perform discovery and a free preflight before the paid request, using the same persistent journey ID throughout. Set JOURNEY_ID to reuse an existing journey; otherwise each buyer creates and prints one. The MCP buyer additionally requires the exact advertised price, Base USDC, Base mainnet, and the configured service recipient before it can sign.

Funnel Observability

The server emits structured events for MCP tool attempts, x402 challenges, payment verification, execution, settlement and final tool outcome. It does not log tool arguments or payment payloads. Settlement logs include the public network and transaction identifier so completed purchases can be counted and deduplicated.

Rejected MCP requests include safe protocol diagnostics such as method, content type, Accept, JSON-RPC shape and the SDK error classification. All events include the request and journey correlation fields when available. Calls to a known paid tool that never reach its payment wrapper additionally emit mcp_pre_payment_rejection, classified as invalid method, content type, JSON-RPC envelope, arguments, transport/protocol rejection, or an otherwise unreached handler. Argument values and payment payloads are never logged. OpenAI usage events inherit the same request, journey, client, and source correlation. Railway's X-Railway-Request-Id, edge POP, and request-start time are also recorded, while client source fingerprints use Railway's stable X-Real-IP value and remain pseudonymized with OBSERVABILITY_SALT.

Deployment

The main branch is connected to Railway. Every successful push triggers a new deployment. Railway uses:

npm run build
npm start

The deployment health-check path is /health.

License

ISC