Deadchannel

Name: Deadchannel
Author: plus8bit

by plus8bitversion 0.1.1i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.plus8bit/deadchannel

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Check an x402 endpoint before you pay it: verdict, risk score and what is wrong. $0.005 in USDC.

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What you can do with it

We have not written a plain-language summary for this one yet. Below are the facts we read from the registry.

Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Other
You need to fill in: DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
You fill in yourself: DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY, DEADCHANNEL_URL

Values marked secret are keys to your account. Never share them or paste them into a chat.

You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deadchannel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "deadchannel-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "DEADCHANNEL_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add deadchannel --env DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY=your-value --env DEADCHANNEL_URL=your-value -- npx -y deadchannel-mcp

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "deadchannel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "deadchannel-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "DEADCHANNEL_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "deadchannel": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "deadchannel-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY": "your-value",
        "DEADCHANNEL_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY secret env
Private key of a wallet holding a little USDC on Base. It signs payments locally and never leaves the machine. Not needed for the free health check.
DEADCHANNEL_URL env
Override the service endpoint. Defaults to https://deadchannel.vercel.app

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 6, 2026

✓ Pass
Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified with the GitHub account plus8bit, which owns the repo
… Not checked yet
Still maintained
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
… Not checked yet
Has a licence
We have not read this repo from GitHub yet
– Not applicable
Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
– Not applicable
Sign-in with OAuth
Runs on your computer and uses local settings instead
… Not checked yet
No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Compared with others in Otheri

More stars than 0% of the other 32455 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 31% of the other 32455 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 32455 servers in this category

Compared with every active server in this category in the registry. Stars count only when the publisher owns the repo.

Common questions

Is Deadchannel safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: DEADCHANNEL_PRIVATE_KEY

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (0.1.1) reached the registry 2 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js on your computer.

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README from the maker

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deadchannel & Hosaka

Two services that sell to AI agents over x402, paid per call in USDC. No signup, no API key, no subscription — an agent calls, pays, and gets an answer.

	what it sells	price
Hosaka	which third-party vendors a company uses, proven from its own DNS, plus contacts	$0.005 – $0.40
deadchannel	whether an x402 endpoint is alive, honestly priced and safe to call	$0.005

Agents can install Hosaka as a skill, which tells them what it is for and when to reach for it:

npx skills add plus8bit/deadchannel/skills/hosaka --yes

Hosaka — company data for agents

Available as an MCP server, so any MCP client can buy from it directly:

npx -y hosaka-mcp

"mcpServers": { "hosaka": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "hosaka-mcp"], "env": { "HOSAKA_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x…" } } } }

HOSAKA_PRIVATE_KEY is a wallet holding a little USDC on Base. Four tools at four prices, so a cheap question never pays for an expensive answer:

tool	price	what you get
`hosaka_lookup`	$0.005	domain age, registrar, mail and DNS provider, DMARC, HTTPS, vendor count
`hosaka_contacts`	$0.02	the dossier, plus the emails and phones the company publishes about itself
`hosaka_dossier`	$0.02	every third-party vendor the company can be proven to use, each with its proof
`hosaka_people`	$0.35	the dossier, plus named people who work there

Why the dossier is worth having. A company proves it owns its domain to every SaaS product it buys by placing a DNS verification record, and authorises every sender it uses in its SPF record. Those two lists are a purchase history the company published itself.

Asking for figma.com returns Anthropic, OpenAI, Adobe, Atlassian, MongoDB Atlas, Greenhouse, Docusign, Stripe, Notion, Dropbox and Zendesk — each with the exact record that proves it, so a buyer can check rather than trust.

Page fingerprints require a loaded script or CDN host, never a mention: a site listing a vendor's logo among its integrations is not a site that uses it.

Live at hosaka-agents.vercel.app.

deadchannel — a risk oracle for x402 endpoints

Give it a URL, it tells an agent whether that endpoint is alive, honestly priced, and safe to call — without spending a cent.

Roughly 17% of probed x402 endpoints are dead or traps, and the Bazaar discovery layer ships no ranking, quality, or reputation signal by its own admission. An agent picking from that catalog is guessing with real money.

What it checks

Every verdict comes from unpaid 402 responses, which is what makes it cheap enough to run across a whole catalog.

Signal	What it catches
`reachable`	Endpoint answers at all, consistently
`bot-gate`	A bot wall answers agents while browsers get a clean 402 — the endpoint is invisible to indexers
`speaks-402`	Returns parseable payment requirements (v1 body and v2 `payment-required` header)
`gate-closed`	Advertises a price it does not enforce — anyone can take the content free
`price-sane`	Price sits inside $0.0001–$5; above the ceiling one call can drain a budget
`price-stable`	Quote does not move between probes taken seconds apart
`pay-to-valid`	Payout address is well formed for its chain and is not a burn address
`network-mainnet`	Settles somewhere that can hold real value, not testnet only
`network-known`	Chain identifier is recognizable (CAIP-2 or friendly name)
`schema-advertised`	Agent can know the response shape before paying
`bazaar-metadata`	Publishes `serviceName` / `tags` so topic search can find it
`latency`	p99 inside the 5s budget agents typically allow
`spec-clean`	Payload matches the documented shape; deviations are reported, not swallowed

Verdicts: live, degraded, trap, testnet, dead, unknown, plus a bounded 0–100 risk score.

Use

Requires Node 22+. There are no runtime dependencies — types are stripped natively, so there is no build step and nothing to audit but this repo.

node src/cli.ts https://x402.org/protected

node src/cli.ts --quiet --samples 5 url-a url-b url-c node src/cli.ts --json url > verdict.json

Exit code is non-zero when any target is a trap or dead, so it drops into CI as a guard against shipping an agent pointed at a bad endpoint.

TESTNET   risk 80   $0.01  355ms p99  https://x402.org/protected

x network-mainnet Only testnet networks offered (base-sepolia, solana-devnet). This endpoint cannot accept real value. ! schema-advertised No input or output schema. An agent has to pay before it can find out what it gets back.

First full catalog scan — 20 Aug 2026

node src/scan.ts --live 150 pulls every resource the public Bazaar facilitators publish and audits it. Results over 14,979 resources:


catalog held by the top 3 payout addresses	18.4%, receiving 1 call in 80
publish no discovery tags	40.9% — an agent searching by topic never finds them
pass every check	56.8%
of the 150 busiest, live right now	91.3%
of the busiest, genuinely dead	2.0%

Median price $0.01, range $0 to $1,000, 316,927 paid calls in 30 days.

The catalog is in better shape than the folklore suggests. What it is not is evenly distributed: three addresses list 2,750 resources between them and receive one call in eighty, which makes them roughly 15x over-represented relative to the demand they serve. Catalog size is not catalog depth.

A correction, and the guard against repeating it

An earlier version of this table claimed 89.8% of the catalog published no tags. That was wrong. The loader read extensions.bazaar.tags only, while most publishers put tags on the item root — the real figure is 40.9%.

The bug survived review because nothing asserted the *positive* count. A check that only ever counts what is missing cannot tell "publishers omit this" apart from "we are looking in the wrong place." test/catalog.test.ts now hand-counts tags across all three known locations in a captured 200-item slice of the live catalog and asserts the loader matches exactly, in both directions.

Notes from the wild

Built against live endpoints, not the spec alone:

v2 moves payment requirements into a base64 `payment-required` header and leaves the body as {}. A parser that only reads the body marks the official reference endpoint as dead.
v2 sends CAIP-2 network ids (eip155:84532, solana:EtWTRA…) where v1 sent friendly names. Both are live simultaneously.
v2 renames `maxAmountRequired` to `amount` and hoists shared resource metadata to the payload root.
Several servers omit the top-level x402Version the reference implementations all send, and some nest accepts[] one level deeper than documented. Both are parsed and reported as warnings rather than rejected.
Most resources are POST. Probing them with GET returns 404/405, which looks exactly like a dead endpoint — it put our first live-probe dead rate at 25% when the real figure is 2.7%. The verb comes from the catalog now, with a POST retry when it is unknown. Any x402 index reporting a high dead rate is worth checking for this.
Discovery metadata is scattered. The spec puts serviceName/tags on the ResourceInfo object, the CDP catalog flattens them onto the item root, and a minority nest them under extensions.bazaar. Read one location and you will undercount by half.
Brokered rails exist. AWS Marketplace resources name the payee with a URN under an aws:base network instead of a chain address. That is legitimate, but the funds go to the broker, so it is reported as a warning rather than scored as an invalid payout.

Selling

The service sells its own check over x402. src/server/ implements the seller side of the v2 HTTP transport: PAYMENT-REQUIRED out, PAYMENT-SIGNATURE in, PAYMENT-RESPONSE back, in the authorization flow — verify, run the resource, then settle.

No private key is involved. A seller declares where settlement should land; the buyer signs and the facilitator broadcasts. The payout address is therefore public information and lives in deadchannel.config.json, where anyone can audit it, rather than in a dashboard where nobody can.

Settlement runs only after the probe produced a result, so a failure on our side costs the buyer nothing.

GET  /             service card, free

GET /health liveness, free GET /facilitator proves credentials are accepted, free, moves no money POST /probe the check, $0.005 in USDC on Base

GET /facilitator exists because a wrong credential otherwise stays invisible until someone tries to pay, and the first to discover it would be a customer.

Live

The service is deployed at https://deadchannel.vercel.app, selling on Base mainnet at $0.005 per call and settling through the Coinbase facilitator.

First settled payment: 0x6ac4a22c, block 50230005, 20 Aug 2026. Gas was paid by the facilitator, not the buyer — in x402 the buyer only signs, so a wallet holding nothing but USDC can pay.

npm run validate re-runs the 25 preflight checks the Bazaar applies before it will index a resource, and reports whether the listing is currently active. It needs no key and moves no money.

resource : https://deadchannel.vercel.app/probe

valid : true accepted : accepted checks : 25/25 passed indexed : active=true

Hosaka

A second shop on the same payout address, selling company facts to agents.

POST /lookup    $0.005  domain age, registrar, mail and DNS provider, DMARC, HTTPS

POST /dossier $0.02 every third-party vendor we can prove, with the proof

Live at https://hosaka-agents.vercel.app, settling on Base mainnet.

Profiles are assembled from four sources that need no key and no supplier: DNS over HTTPS, the RDAP registry, the TLS handshake and the homepage. Cost per profile is zero — the margin is in the assembly.

The interesting part is vendor detection. A company proves ownership to every SaaS product it buys by placing a DNS verification record, and authorises every sender it uses in its SPF record. Those two lists are a purchase history the company published itself. Every claim carries the record that proves it, so a buyer can check rather than trust.

Using it from Claude or ChatGPT

The Bazaar's search ignores the query and ranks by unique payers, so a new shop is invisible there regardless of quality. MCP is the channel that works on day one — the agent is already in a client that speaks it.

"mcpServers": { "hosaka": { "command": "node", "args": ["/absolute/path/to/src/hosaka/mcp/server.ts"], "env": { "HOSAKA_PRIVATE_KEY": "0x…" } } } }

The buyer brings their own wallet: the key signs the payment locally and never leaves the machine. Without it the tools say what is missing instead of failing mid-conversation.

Development

npm install     # typescript only, for typechecking

npm test # 18 tests, no network required npm run typecheck

License

MIT

Deadchannel

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Otheri

Common questions

Alternatives

Spec Driven Development

Remote Desktop Commander

SSTracker free youth training

README from the maker

deadchannel & Hosaka

Hosaka — company data for agents

deadchannel — a risk oracle for x402 endpoints

What it checks

Use

First full catalog scan — 20 Aug 2026

A correction, and the guard against repeating it

Notes from the wild

Selling

Live

Hosaka

Using it from Claude or ChatGPT

Development

License