Daily refresh 2026-08-23T05:05:21+00:00 — incidents 273, drift 1000, tracked 26801

README.md

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 Independent, **daily-updated** trust & safety data for the **x402 agent-payment economy** (HTTP 402 + stablecoins on Base) and the **MCP server** ecosystem — by [PulseFeed](https://pulsefeed.dev).
 
-AI agents increasingly pay for APIs autonomously over x402 and connect to MCP servers that can run code on install. But **19% of listed x402 endpoints are dead or invalid**, and "live" is not the same claim as "payable": of 15102 endpoints that return a valid 402, only **13641** across **1345** operators are things an agent can actually buy — the rest are documentation placeholders, testnet sandboxes priced in dollars, or payment schemes outside the x402 spec. Both figures are in `ecosystem.json` as `healthyEndpoints` and `payableEndpoints`; compare the payable one. This dataset is the free, public slice of PulseFeed's continuous audit. Last updated: 2026-08-23T04:45:07+00:00.
+AI agents increasingly pay for APIs autonomously over x402 and connect to MCP servers that can run code on install. But **19% of listed x402 endpoints are dead or invalid**, and "live" is not the same claim as "payable": of 15102 endpoints that return a valid 402, only **13641** across **1345** operators are things an agent can actually buy — the rest are documentation placeholders, testnet sandboxes priced in dollars, or payment schemes outside the x402 spec. Both figures are in `ecosystem.json` as `healthyEndpoints` and `payableEndpoints`; compare the payable one. This dataset is the free, public slice of PulseFeed's continuous audit. Last updated: 2026-08-23T05:05:21+00:00.
 
 > **Methodology correction — 2026-07-30.** Snapshots dated before 2026-07-30 understate liveness. Our prober read x402 payment requirements only from the HTTP response body; x402 v2 moved them into the `PAYMENT-REQUIRED` header. **1,869 endpoints across 166 operators** were live and recorded as dead, and **3,920** fabricated `malformed` observations were removed from their history — records repaired this way carry `historyRepairedAt`. The dead share moved from 74–76% to 19%: **a change in the measuring instrument, not in the market.** Series before and after this date are not directly comparable, and each snapshot now carries `probeVersion`. The scam/anomaly findings are unaffected. Full write-up, including four further errors of the same kind and a checklist for deciding whether an endpoint is genuinely payable: https://pulsefeed.dev/correction
 

ecosystem.json

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 {
-  "generated": "2026-08-23T04:45:07+00:00",
+  "generated": "2026-08-23T05:05:21+00:00",
   "source": "https://pulsefeed.dev/status.json",
   "ecosystem": {
     "totalTracked": 26801,

incidents.json

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 {
-  "generated": "2026-08-23T04:45:06.905Z",
+  "generated": "2026-08-23T05:05:20.084Z",
   "windowDays": 30,
   "total": 273,
   "bySeverity": {

mcp_drift.json

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 {
-  "generated": "2026-08-23T04:45:07+00:00",
+  "generated": "2026-08-23T05:05:21+00:00",
   "source": "https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp/drift.json",
   "windowDays": 90,
   "total": 1000,
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     "recovered": 4,
     "verdict_improved": 12,
     "repo_changed": 24,
-    "version_published": 7246,
+    "version_published": 7257,
     "provenance_lost": 25,
     "repo_removed": 1,
     "went_dark": 1,
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   "bySeverity": {
     "high": 67,
     "medium": 1435,
-    "low": 7262
+    "low": 7273
   },
   "events": [
     {

mcp_security.json

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 {
-  "generated": "2026-08-23T04:45:07+00:00",
+  "generated": "2026-08-23T05:05:21+00:00",
   "source": "https://pulsefeed.dev/mcp-report.json",
   "current": {
     "date": "2026-08-23",