PaidHandshake Exchange MCP Server

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PaidHandshake Exchange is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 18 tools.

Verified agent commerce plus worker-published structured intelligence and machine payments.

Uptime history 29 days of history · worst day 93%

29 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

657 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 44

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

7 Oct 18 tool descriptions were rewritten20 times that day create_checkout, create_recurring_paid_watch, get_free_data_sample and 15 more

7 Oct 10 tools changed the parameters they ask for create_checkout, create_recurring_paid_watch, get_free_data_sample and 7 more

7 Oct 2 tools appeared get_published_intelligence_catalog, get_published_intelligence_sample

7 Oct a tool changed version2 times that day

6 Oct a tool changed version4 times that day

6 Oct 3 tool descriptions were rewritten get_free_data_sample, quote_paid_machine_job, submit_paid_machine_job

6 Oct 2 tools appeared get_fulfillment_proof, get_machine_payment_options

6 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for get_free_data_sample

and 6 more, back to 6 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PaidHandshake Exchange every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add exchange --transport http https://paidhandshake.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://paidhandshake.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.exchange]
url = "https://paidhandshake.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "exchange": {
      "url": "https://paidhandshake.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "exchange": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://paidhandshake.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 18

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

machine

get_machine_onboarding

Free, read-only onboarding guide for autonomous buyers. Returns the self-service machine enrollment route plus Stripe wallet-funding, paid-job submission/polling, recurring-watch, and related machine endpoints. Use this when an agent needs to become a PaidHandshake machine buyer or discover the required API flow; use get_machine_wallet after authentication to inspect an existing machine account.

get_machine_payment_options

Free, read-only discovery of machine payment rails available or activation-ready for PaidHandshake, including Stripe-funded delegated wallets and x402 Base-USDC where active. Use this when an autonomous buyer needs to choose how to pay; use get_machine_wallet to inspect one authenticated machine's actual wallet balance and spending limits.

get_machine_wallet

Authenticated, read-only wallet status for the current machine buyer. Returns wallet balance and delegated spending limits without moving funds. Use this before submit_paid_machine_job to verify available budget; use get_machine_payment_options to discover funding and payment rails rather than account-specific balances.

recurring

create_recurring_paid_watch

Authenticated: create a new recurring paid watch for repeated research or monitoring. Each execution is a normal paid machine job bounded by max_price_cents plus the machine's delegated spending limits; cadence must be 60-10080 minutes. Use this only to create a new watch; use set_recurring_paid_watch to enable/disable an existing watch and submit_paid_machine_job for one-time work.

list_recurring_paid_watches

Authenticated, read-only listing of recurring paid watches belonging to the current machine buyer. Returns the buyer's saved watches and their current identifiers, configuration and enabled status. Use this to obtain a watch_id before set_recurring_paid_watch; use create_recurring_paid_watch to create a new watch.

set_recurring_paid_watch

Authenticated state change for an existing recurring paid watch. Set enabled=true to allow future scheduled runs under the watch's saved cadence and spending limits, or enabled=false to stop future runs; this does not create a watch or edit its query. Use create_recurring_paid_watch to create one and list_recurring_paid_watches to obtain an existing watch_id.

published

get_published_intelligence_catalog

Free, read-only catalog of structured intelligence products published by connected workers, including paid-eligible counts, prices, sample paths and x402 purchase routes. Use this to discover product names before calling get_published_intelligence_sample; use get_live_inventory instead for canonical PaidHandshake feed inventory.

get_published_intelligence_sample

Free, read-only sample of one worker-published intelligence product. Returns one paid-eligible structured record so an agent can inspect quality and fields before purchasing; use get_published_intelligence_catalog first when you need to discover available product names, and use get_free_data_sample for the separate inventory-feed sample path.

checkout

create_checkout

Create a Stripe Checkout URL after a PaidHandshake search when a buyer wants to authorize access to locked results. This tool only creates the checkout handoff and never silently charges the buyer. Use get_unlock_quote first if the buyer only needs pricing, and do not use this for recurring watches or machine-wallet jobs.

free

get_free_data_sample

Free, read-only preview of one canonical PaidHandshake inventory feed. Returns one paid-eligible verified record when available; quality-held candidates are never substituted. Use get_live_inventory first to discover feed inventory and use get_published_intelligence_sample instead for worker-published intelligence products.

fulfillment

get_fulfillment_proof

Free, read-only operational proof that PaidHandshake has active fulfillment capacity. Returns worker heartbeat/status, background inventory-production status, verified feed state, and actual completed paid-job counts; background inventory generation is not counted as customer revenue. Use this for platform/fulfillment verification, not for browsing purchasable inventory or polling one specific paid job.

live

get_live_inventory

Free, read-only snapshot of canonical PaidHandshake inventory feeds, including paid-eligible counts, quality holds, freshness, prices and sample URLs. Use this as the starting point for known feed inventory; use get_free_data_sample for one feed sample, get_published_intelligence_catalog for worker-published products, and search_matches for ad hoc web discovery.

matches

search_matches

Read-only discovery search across current public or authorized web information when the request is not already covered by a known PaidHandshake inventory product. Returns one evidence-bearing proof result, locked ranked previews, pricing, and a reusable search_id. Use get_live_inventory/get_free_data_sample for known inventory products instead, and use quote_paid_machine_job for delegated custom research work.

paid

get_paid_machine_job

Authenticated, read-only polling for a previously submitted paid machine job. Use the job_id returned by submit_paid_machine_job to retrieve its current queued, working, completed, or failed state and any available result; use quote_paid_machine_job before submission, not this tool, when you only need a price estimate.

paidhandshake

get_paidhandshake_capabilities

Free, read-only capability map for PaidHandshake Exchange. Returns available verified-data feed families, machine endpoints, payment rails, and operating rules. Use this first to understand what PaidHandshake can do; use get_machine_onboarding for enrollment and setup, and get_machine_wallet for an authenticated buyer's current balance and spending limits.

quote

quote_paid_machine_job

Free, read-only price estimate for delegated machine work before any job is submitted or money is reserved. Use this for custom public-web research, sourcing, verification, or commercial-intelligence tasks; after accepting the quote, use submit_paid_machine_job for execution. Unknown task labels may be mapped to a compatible live-worker capability.

submit

submit_paid_machine_job

Authenticated paid mutation that submits a one-time machine job after the buyer has accepted the task and spending cap. PaidHandshake authorizes work only inside the machine's delegated wallet and platform spending limits, routes it to a compatible worker capability, and returns a job_id for later polling with get_paid_machine_job. Use quote_paid_machine_job first when the price is not yet known; use create_recurring_paid_watch instead for repeated work.

unlock

get_unlock_quote

Free, read-only pricing lookup for locked results from an existing search_matches search. Returns the currently available unlock packages and prices for the supplied search_id without creating checkout or charging the buyer. Use create_checkout only after a buyer chooses a package; use search_matches first if you do not yet have a search_id.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://paidhandshake.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	614 ms	5 min ago

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PaidHandshake Exchange — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PaidHandshake Exchange do?

It exposes 18 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_checkout, create_recurring_paid_watch, get_free_data_sample, get_fulfillment_proof, get_live_inventory, get_machine_onboarding and 12 more. 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 →

What is PaidHandshake Exchange mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around recurring, machine and published. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is PaidHandshake Exchange working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 657 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect PaidHandshake Exchange?

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

Does PaidHandshake Exchange need an API key?

No. PaidHandshake Exchange completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 18 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is PaidHandshake Exchange?

It answers our handshake in 657 ms on average, which is faster than 15% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.