# Check x402 Payment Readiness (remote · forage.inflbs.xyz)

Call before paying an x402 resource. Returns PAY/BLOCKED. Does not move funds.

- Trust score: 0/100 (low)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: dead
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-16

> **Dead**: every channel of this server has been unreachable for long enough to be marked dead. Its trust score is pinned to 0 and does not recover automatically.

## Components

- remote · `forage.inflbs.xyz`: 0/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `0.1.2`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-16.

- **Endpoint Security**: 11/100
  - TLS not yet verified: we couldn't open a connection to check the certificate.
  - Authorisation not yet verified: we couldn't confirm whether this endpoint requires it.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS not yet verified: we couldn't read the response headers to check for it.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 0/100
  - Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but we couldn't connect to verify it.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 0/100
  - Schema not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's schema, or could read only part of its tool list.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Tool coverage not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Tool Safety**: 0/100
  - Tool safety not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's tools, or could read only part of the list.
- **Capabilities**: 0/100
  - Capabilities not yet verified: we couldn't read the endpoint's capabilities.

**Unverified: 5 categories.** Categories scored 0 because we could not verify them: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server?

Check x402 Payment Readiness is a hosted endpoint at https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness 'https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness": {
      "url": "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness]
url = "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness --url 'https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness:
    url: "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness -t streamable-http -u 'https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-16 (score 0, −4)

The score moved with no change recorded against any check. We would rather say so than guess.

### 2026-10-10 (score 4, +4)

- [security regression] Endpoint reachability: reachable → unreachable
- [security regression] TLS certificate: fail → unverified
- [security improvement] HTTPS: unverified → pass
- [security] Transport: Transport check failed: declared streamable-http, but we couldn't connect to verify it.
- [functional improvement] Score status: failed → scored

### 2026-10-08 (score 0)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_x402_payment_readiness` (~85 tokens)

Call immediately before paying an x402 resource. Given a resource URL, wallet, and optional max spend, checks payment requirements, network, wallet balance/readiness, and budget; returns PAY/BLOCKED with reason codes. Does not move funds.

Input parameters:

- `max_spend_usd`
- `resource_url` (string, required)
- `wallet` (string, required)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-16: 0
- 2026-10-15: 4
- 2026-10-14: 4
- 2026-10-13: 4
- 2026-10-12: 4
- 2026-10-10: 4
- 2026-10-08: 0

## Common questions

### What is the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server?

Check x402 Payment Readiness is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.kingsleyzissougdi/check-x402-payment-readiness. Call before paying an x402 resource. Returns PAY/BLOCKED. Does not move funds. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp).

### Is the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server safe to use?

Check x402 Payment Readiness scores 0 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server expose?

Check x402 Payment Readiness exposes 1 tool: check_x402_payment_readiness. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 85 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server require authentication?

Its publisher declares no required credentials for Check x402 Payment Readiness. We have not been able to confirm that against the live endpoint, and a server can require authorisation without declaring it here.

### Is the Check x402 Payment Readiness MCP server still maintained?

Check x402 Payment Readiness has been unreachable for long enough that we treat it as dead, and its score is pinned to zero. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://forage.inflbs.xyz/mcp
- Website: https://forage.inflbs.xyz/docs
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/kingsleyzissougdi-check-x402-payment-readiness/forage