Nohumans

Find and vet paid x402 API services before an agent spends money on them.

A discovery and trust layer for paid x402 services. Every listing is re-probed every 15 minutes, and each carries a recency-weighted reliability score built from that probe history — so an agent can check whether an endpoint actually responds before paying for it.

Free. No API key. No signup. No account.

Live stats: https://nohumans.directory · REST API: https://api.nohumans.directory

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Why this exists

Most x402 directories are catalogs: they list what exists. None of them tell you whether a listing still works.

This one probes every endpoint it lists, every 15 minutes, and keeps the history. A listing moves unverified → verified only after sustained clean probes, and falls to failing when it stops responding. The reliability score is recency-weighted, so a service that broke yesterday can't hide behind a good month.

Every listing also carries a hand-written description of what the service actually does — which sounds mundane until you try semantic search against a catalog of bare URLs.

Installation

Remote server, streamable HTTP. No install, no build step, no credentials.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http nohumans https://api.nohumans.directory/mcp

Claude Desktop / any stdio-only client

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nohumans": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mcp-remote", "https://api.nohumans.directory/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Direct remote connection

https://api.nohumans.directory/mcp

Transport: streamable-http · Authentication: none · Cost: free

Agent Skill

For agents that support the Agent Skills standard (Claude Code, Codex, and others), install the skill so the agent knows how to use the tools below intelligently — when to prefer verified listings, how to read score/status, and how to report a real outcome via tx_hash:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/nohumans-directory
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/nohumans-directory/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jalcodev/nohumans-mcp/main/skills/nohumans-directory/SKILL.md

Tools

find_paid_service

Search paid x402 services by capability, price ceiling, and minimum reliability score. Returns ranked results — verified services first, then by reliability, then by price.

Parameter	Type	Description
query	string	Free-text search across service names and descriptions
category	string	Exact category filter, e.g. data.fx, infra.trust
max_price	number	Maximum price per call, in USDC
min_score	number	Minimum reliability score, 0–1
limit	number	Max results, 1–50 (default 10)

get_service_details

Full record for a single service: pricing, accepted chains, request and response schemas, current status, reliability score, median latency, and probe count — everything an agent needs before making a paid call.

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	Listing ID, as returned by find_paid_service

Example

An agent that needs FX rates and won't pay more than half a cent, and refuses to touch anything with a reliability score under 0.9:

find_paid_service(query="fx rates", max_price=0.005, min_score=0.9)

Returns matching services with their live reliability scores and median latency, so the agent can pick one and pay with confidence.

REST API

The same data is available over plain HTTP, no MCP client required:

# Search
curl 'https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/discover?q=fx&max_price=0.005&min_score=0.9'

# Full detail for one listing
curl 'https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/listings/{id}'

# Live directory stats
curl 'https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/stats'

# What agents search for and can't find
curl 'https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/demand'

Agent-readable docs: /llms.txt

Listing a service

Self-serve, no account:

curl -X POST https://api.nohumans.directory/v1/listings \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
    "name": "Your service",
    "description": "What it does, in a sentence an agent can act on.",
    "endpoint_url": "https://api.example.com/v1/thing",
    "category": "data.example",
    "price_amount": 0.001,
    "price_currency": "USDC",
    "chains": ["base"]
  }'

Submissions land as unverified and are probed within 15 minutes. Sustained clean probes promote a listing to verified; sustained failures demote it. Ranking is earned by uptime, never sold.

Save the claim_token from the response — it's your edit key, shown once.

Full submission guide, including the HTTP 402 requirement that causes most rejected listings: SUBMITTING.md

How verification works

• Every listing is probed every 15 minutes from independent infrastructure.
• A live x402 endpoint answers an unpaid request with HTTP 402 and payment requirements — that alone proves liveness and protocol conformance. Probes never send payment.
• Reliability scores are recency-weighted: recent behaviour dominates.
• Status lifecycle: unverified → verified → failing → delisted.
• Probes originate from our infrastructure, not from sellers. Reliability cannot be self-reported.

License

MIT for this documentation. The directory service itself is free to use.

Contact

[email protected]