Check
by Tanod agentscan in Other
agentscan (Tanod) MCP server check: answers, name, version, sign-in, tools, latency, TLS expiry of a remote MCP server. Use when an agent must check that a remote MCP server is up, what it is and which tools it lists before connecting.
POST https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 867 ms typical, 1.1 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- 30 min ago
- Next check
- in 1 min
How to call it
POST https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check
Each call costs $0.005 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
POST https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check
content-type: application/json
{
"url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | Yes | Public https URL of a remote MCP server endpoint (streamable HTTP, or a legacy SSE endpoint), such as https://mcp.example.com/mcp. Host name only (no IP address), port 443, no user info. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 45 lines
{
"answers": true,
"auth": {
"authorization_servers": [],
"oauth_metadata": null,
"required": false,
"www_authenticate": null
},
"capabilities": [
"logging",
"tools"
],
"checked_at": "2026-10-10T08:00:00Z",
"error": null,
"http_status": 200,
"latency_ms": 212,
"location": null,
"note": "One live probe from Tanod's servers at the time shown: initialize, then tools/list, without credentials. A server that needs sign-in, blocks datacenter addresses or limits clients can look down here and be up elsewhere. Names and versions come from the server itself and are untrusted",
"protocol_version": "2025-06-18",
"server": {
"name": "example-server",
"title": null,
"version": "1.4.2"
},
"status": "ok",
"tls": {
"days_left": 97,
"expires": "2027-01-15",
"ok": true
},
"tools": {
"count": 3,
"more_pages": false,
"names": [
"search",
"fetch",
"summarize"
],
"names_truncated": false
},
"total_ms": 640,
"transport": "streamable-http",
"untrusted_content": true,
"url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.005.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://mcp.example.com/mcp"}'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"url":"https://mcp.example.com/mcp"}' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.005 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.005" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.005 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftanod.dev%2Fv1%2Fmcp%2Fcheck&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp"
}),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.005 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.005"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://tanod.dev/v1/mcp/check",
json={
"url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
- No findings. We scan names, descriptions and tool definitions for hidden instructions and other prompt-injection patterns.
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