Check Before You Pay MCP Server

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Check Before You Pay is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools.

Before an agent pays, get a verdict and a keepable receipt. Not insurance. Not custody.

Uptime history 37 days of history · worst day 0%

37 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

148 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Check Before You Pay does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add check-before-you-pay --transport http https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "check-before-you-pay": {
      "url": "https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.check-before-you-pay]
url = "https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "check-before-you-pay": {
      "url": "https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "check-before-you-pay": {
      "url": "https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 1

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

prepay

prepay_clearance

Free trial summary: screen any x402 endpoint before paying and get an ALLOW / REVIEW / BLOCK verdict with a numeric score and the top reasons. The full evidence bundle (all checks, payTo reputation history, landmine flags) is available on the paid x402 route GET /clear?target= at $0.05 USDC. Trial calls are rate-limited to 10 per 10 minutes per client.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://check.opulencedigitech.ca/mcp	streamable-http	answering	148 ms	10 min ago

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Check Before You Pay — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Check Before You Pay do?

It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: prepay_clearance. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Check Before You Pay working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 148 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Check Before You Pay as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Check Before You Pay?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Check Before You Pay need an API key?

No. Check Before You Pay completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.