# BotsRated (beta)

Tells your agent what is known about a paid x402 service on Base before any money moves.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI
- Author: botsrated
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/botsrated/botsrated
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/botsrated-beta

## What it does

BotsRated (beta) is a remote MCP server, so there is nothing to run on your machine. It publishes measurements of paid agent services on Base: unpaid probes covering status, whether the 402 challenge is well-formed, latency, quoted against listed price, and payTo; plus paid test-buys, each carrying its on-chain transaction hash. No grade or index appears until a host has built up purchases across separate days.

Eight tools ship with it. `preflight`, `find`, `coverage`, `sample` and `history` cost nothing. `check` runs $0.001, `report` $0.002, `best` $0.01, all settled over x402 in USDC on Base; `check` and `report` include a free daily allowance before the usual 402 kicks in. The paid tools hand back a URL to pay, and any x402 client works — `@x402/fetch` or the Coinbase Agentic Wallet, for instance.

Setup is one line: `claude mcp add --transport http botsrated https://botsrated.com/mcp`. No auth. The free allowance is counted per client IP per UTC day, with no accounts or prepaid balance. Behind NAT or a proxy, every client shares that same allowance — worth knowing if a whole team points at it.

## Requirements
- Remote server: `https://botsrated.com/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http botsrated https://botsrated.com/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add botsrated-beta --url https://botsrated.com/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "botsrated-beta": {
            "url": "https://botsrated.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "botsrated-beta": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://botsrated.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http botsrated-beta https://botsrated.com/mcp
```

## When to use it
- check a seller's status before paying it
- compare the invoiced price against the listed one
- confirm a service answers with a valid 402 challenge
- find sellers that match a specific task
- review a host's test-buy history with transaction hashes

## Example prompts
- Run `preflight` on `weather.example.com` and tell me its status and price
- Use `find` to look up x402 services for `weather`
- Pull `check` for that host and show the last five receipts

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