MCP Server Registry & x402 Service Discovery (fresh-feeds)

Use this skill to track trending, new, and changed MCP servers and to discover live x402-payable services — and to find, rank, or verify a specific MCP server. The registry is deduplicated and quality-scored, the x402 catalog is liveness-probed, and both refresh every 30 minutes; a paid changes API returns exactly what was added/removed/re-scored since any day. You get current, ranked, machine-readable data — including the deltas no other index exposes — instead of crawling raw registries yourself.

Base URL: https://fresh-feeds.foomworks.workers.dev

Use as an MCP server (recommended for agents)

fresh-feeds is a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0) — connect your agent to it and the tools load natively, no curl required:

• Endpoint: https://fresh-feeds.foomworks.workers.dev/mcp
• Free tools (return data directly): search_mcp_registry, get_registry_highlights, verify_mcp_server, list_x402_services, feeds_status
• Paid-access tools (return x402 payment instructions for the full data): get_mcp_registry_snapshot, get_registry_changes, get_x402_services_snapshot, verify_mcp_server_report

Discovery manifests: GET /.well-known/agent-card.json (A2A), GET /openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1), GET /.well-known/mcp.json (MCP descriptor). The REST endpoints below remain available for direct HTTP/curl use.

When to use

• "Find a good/maintained MCP server for "
• "Is MCP server live and trustworthy?" (reachability probe + graded trust signals)
• "What MCP servers were added or changed recently?"
• "Which x402 services are currently up and correctly demanding payment?"

Free endpoints (no payment)

• GET / — human/JSON landing: live Top 10 by quality score + Trending (send Accept: application/json for the machine manifest)
• GET /feeds/mcp-registry/preview — top 10 MCP servers by quality score
• GET /feeds/x402-services/preview — top 10 currently-payable x402 services
• GET /verify/mcp/preview?server=<NAME> — grade + headline liveness for one server
• GET /verify/mcp/badge?server=<NAME> — embeddable SVG trust badge
• GET /health — snapshot freshness, data age, available change-baseline dates
• ETag / If-None-Match on the paid feeds → 304 (free) to check for new data before paying

Paid endpoints (x402 — USDC on Base, auto-settled)

These return the full dataset/report. They respond HTTP 402 Payment Required with an x402 challenge; your x402 auto-handler signs a USDC micropayment on Base and retries automatically (within your configured budget):

If you do not have an x402 wallet/handler, the free */preview + /health endpoints answer most ranking/liveness questions; use ETag 304 to detect new data without paying.

Workflow

1. Orient with GET /feeds/mcp-registry/preview (free top 10) or the landing /.
2. For the full ranked corpus, call GET /feeds/mcp-registry (paid). To poll cheaply for updates, ETag-check first (If-None-Match), then GET /feeds/mcp-registry/changes?since=.
3. Before depending on a server, verify it: GET /verify/mcp/preview?server= (free grade) → GET /verify/mcp?server= (paid full report) for the live probe + trust signals.
4. To choose a payable service, use GET /feeds/x402-services — alive-402 means up and correctly demanding payment (safe to call); ranking puts payable-now services first.

Notes

• Quality score = active status + has-remotes + has-packages + real-description + recency (see the snapshot's scoring field). Liveness reflects a probe, not an SLA.
• The service holds no keys and never initiates payments; all payment is buyer-side via x402.

Example

BASE=https://fresh-feeds.foomworks.workers.dev
curl -s "$BASE/feeds/mcp-registry/preview"            # free: top 10
curl -s "$BASE/verify/mcp/preview?server=io.github.example/server"   # free grade
curl -s "$BASE/feeds/mcp-registry"                    # paid (x402 handler settles the 402)