402Found — Micro-utilities for the Agent Economy

Pay-per-use MCP servers for AI agents. No subscriptions. No API keys. Just x402 micropayments.

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Table of Contents

• What is 402Found?
• Quick Start
• The Fleet (18 Tools)
  • Security & Safety
  • Cost & Budget Control
  • Agent Reliability
  • Code & Output Quality
  • Agent Identity & Registry
• How Payments Work
• Live Endpoints
• Directories
• Built For
• Contributing
• License

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What is 402Found?

402Found is a fleet of 18 remote MCP servers built for the agent economy. Each server solves one specific problem agents face in production — from cost runaway to prompt injection to PII leaks — and charges a fraction of a cent per use via the x402 payment protocol.

No signup. No monthly bill. Agents call the tool, pay for what they use, and move on.

Key properties:

• Streamable-HTTP transport — works with any MCP-compatible client
• x402 micropayments — sub-cent pricing, pay only for what you use
• A2A compatible — agent cards hosted at card-registry.402found.dev
• Stateless — no session state, no API keys to rotate
• Production-ready — deployed, monitored, and live at https://{tool}.402found.dev/mcp

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Quick Start

Add any tool to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pii-scrubber": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://pii-scrubber.402found.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add multiple tools at once:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pii-scrubber": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://pii-scrubber.402found.dev/mcp"
    },
    "budget-ceiling-enforcer": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://budget-ceiling-enforcer.402found.dev/mcp"
    },
    "prompt-injection-detector": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://prompt-injection-detector.402found.dev/mcp"
    },
    "loop-gate": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://loop-gate.402found.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

All servers use streamable-http transport and are live at https://{tool-name}.402found.dev/mcp. Requests without a valid x402 payment header return HTTP 402 Payment Required.

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The Fleet (18 Tools)

Security & Safety

Tool	What it does	Price	Endpoint
pii-scrubber	Strips SSNs, emails, API keys, phone numbers, addresses, credit cards, and IPs from text. GDPR/HIPAA aligned.	$0.005/req	live
data-sentinel	Deep second-pass scan for sensitive data that slipped through PII scrubbing. Catches JWTs, keys, connection strings, and internal IPs.	$0.003/req	live
prompt-injection-detector	Scans agent input for prompt injection attacks — instruction overrides, jailbreaks, role-play manipulation, system prompt leakage, and hidden instructions.	$0.003/req	live
permission-guard	Checks if an agent's requested action exceeds its defined scope. Detects privilege escalation and flags dangerous operations.	$0.002/req	live
hallucination-detector	Scores AI output for likely hallucinated facts. Detects fabricated precision, invented citations, temporal impossibilities, and overconfident absolutes.	$0.003/req	live

Cost & Budget Control

Tool	What it does	Price	Endpoint
budget-ceiling-enforcer	Prevents runaway cloud costs. Enforces hard budget limits with configurable actions: throttle, pause, alert, or kill. Spend projection and webhook alerts included.	$0.02/check	live
agent-cost-meter	Tracks cumulative agent session spend against budget ceilings. Calculates cost from token usage and API calls, returns budget status with recommendations.	$0.002/req	live

Agent Reliability

Tool	What it does	Price	Endpoint
loop-gate	Detects and breaks recursive agent loops using Bloom-filter detection. Paid reset to resume a halted loop.	$0.005/reset	live
rate-limit-manager	Manages agent request rate limiting with sliding window and exponential backoff. Prevents rate limit errors when calling external APIs.	$0.001/req	live
performance-baseline-tracker	Captures and monitors AI agent output quality over time. Baseline snapshots, multi-metric drift detection, semantic similarity scoring, and trend analysis.	$0.10/compare	live

Code & Output Quality

Tool	What it does	Price	Endpoint
code-quality-scanner	Detects vibe-code anti-patterns in AI agent code before production deployment. AST-powered analysis for Python, JavaScript, and LLM prompts.	$0.05/scan	live
token-squeezer	Compresses text into LLM-optimized Reasoning Maps. Saves 80%+ on context window token costs.	$0.001/req	live
format-converter	Converts between JSON, CSV, XML, YAML, Markdown, HTML, and TOML. Handles nested JSON flattening. Zero external dependencies.	$0.001/conv	live

Agent Identity & Registry

Tool	What it does	Price	Endpoint
agent-registry	Central inventory of all deployed AI agents. Register, query, monitor health, generate compliance reports, export CSV/JSON, and visualize dependency graphs.	$0.001/query	live
card-registry	Hosts agent-card.json files at permanent public URLs. Discoverable by any A2A-compatible agent.	$0.001/mo	live
the-prospector	Generates valid A2A agent cards for any website from stable structured sources. Never scrapes.	$0.01/card	live
multi-agent-trust-verifier	Verifies trust between agents by checking goal alignment, spend limits, and action scope. Detects goal drift and hijack attempts. OWASP ASI01 coverage.	$0.004/req	live
agent-audit-trail	Creates tamper-evident, HMAC-signed audit log entries for agent actions. Returns signed receipts the caller stores for compliance.	$0.001/log	live

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How Payments Work

402Found uses the x402 micropayment protocol. When an agent calls a tool:

1. Without a payment header — receives HTTP 402 Payment Required with payment details
2. Agent attaches a valid x402 payment header — request is processed
3. Cost is deducted at the per-request rate shown above

No wallets to set up manually — x402-compatible agent frameworks handle this automatically.

Resources:

• x402 Protocol Docs
• Coinbase x402 SDK

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Live Endpoints

All 18 tools are live. The base URL pattern is:

https://{tool-name}.402found.dev/mcp

Tool	Endpoint
pii-scrubber	https://pii-scrubber.402found.dev/mcp
data-sentinel	https://data-sentinel.402found.dev/mcp
prompt-injection-detector	https://prompt-injection-detector.402found.dev/mcp
permission-guard	https://permission-guard.402found.dev/mcp
hallucination-detector	https://hallucination-detector.402found.dev/mcp
budget-ceiling-enforcer	https://budget-ceiling-enforcer.402found.dev/mcp
agent-cost-meter	https://agent-cost-meter.402found.dev/mcp
loop-gate	https://loop-gate.402found.dev/mcp
rate-limit-manager	https://rate-limit-manager.402found.dev/mcp
performance-baseline-tracker	https://performance-baseline-tracker.402found.dev/mcp
code-quality-scanner	https://code-quality-scanner.402found.dev/mcp
token-squeezer	https://token-squeezer.402found.dev/mcp
format-converter	https://format-converter.402found.dev/mcp
agent-registry	https://agent-registry.402found.dev/mcp
card-registry	https://card-registry.402found.dev/mcp
the-prospector	https://the-prospector.402found.dev/mcp
multi-agent-trust-verifier	https://multi-agent-trust-verifier.402found.dev/mcp
agent-audit-trail	https://agent-audit-trail.402found.dev/mcp

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Directories

Find 402Found tools on every major MCP registry:

Directory	Link
Smithery.ai	All 18 tools under found402
MCP.so	All 18 tools listed
Cursor Directory	All 18 tools listed
Glama.ai	Registered

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Built For

• AI agent developers building with Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or open models
• Teams running multi-agent pipelines in production
• Anyone who has watched an agent loop forever, leak PII, or run up a $200 cloud bill overnight
• Developers exploring the A2A protocol and agent interoperability

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Contributing

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome. If you have an idea for a new micro-utility that fits the pay-per-use model:

1. Open an issue describing the tool and its use case
2. Follow the existing folder structure (one folder per tool, matching the slug)
3. Include a README.md in the tool folder with pricing and endpoint info
4. Submit a pull request

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License

MIT — use freely, build on top, contributions welcome.

402Found is part of the Luxemara ecosystem.