Academic Evidence Pack — agent-tools.cloud

Signed citation-integrity reports + retraction-checked evidence packs, paid per call via x402/USDC.

Paid verification

No sponsored paid call yet.

Pay this endpoint once from your own wallet (Base USDC, up to $1.00) and we call it and record what came back. Your wallet pays the listed recipient directly; Agent Tools never holds funds. Sponsored checks prove delivery; they do not count as demand.

Quality grade

How grading works

B+ 66.6 / 100

Availability 20.0 / 20

Endpoint responded (HTTP 200)

Payability 15.0 / 15

✓ Answers a real HTTP 402 challenge
✓ Publishes a /.well-known/x402 descriptor
✓ Payment address on record
✓ Settlement network declared
✓ Price declared

Demand 9.4 / 35

5 distinct payers, 13 USDC transfers in the last 30 days

Performance 10.0 / 10

Last probe answered in 94 ms (full marks at 200 ms or less)

Readiness 12.2 / 15

Agent readiness 81/100

Owner verified 0.0 / 5

Nobody has claimed this listing yet

Endpoint last checked 18 h ago. On-chain activity last read 3 d ago. Availability and on-chain demand are both re-probed daily; the grade updates automatically on the next pass. This grade sets search order and leaderboards; the readiness score below is shown for reference only.

x402 readiness

B · 81/100

Readiness is how fully this listing follows its protocol and how it behaved in our probes over 30 days. It is shown for reference and does not move it in search. Search order and leaderboards use the separate quality grade (here B+, 66.6/100), which weighs availability, payability and on-chain demand. How the two differ

Valid payment requirements	10/10	Payment requirements carry a payee, a mainnet network and a price.
Live 402 challenge	20/25	Endpoint reachable; its 402 challenge was seen earlier (94 ms).
x402 version	n/a	x402 version not observed yet.
Signed descriptor	n/a	No x402 standard defines a signed descriptor.
Uptime (30 days)	15/15	32/32 probes succeeded over 30 days (100%).
Resource declaration	10/10	Declares 5 paid resource(s).
Verified identity	5/10	Publisher descriptor (/.well-known/x402 or OpenAPI) on record; claim this listing to verify domain control.
Freshness + modern flags	1/5	not seen in a source for over 30 days; declares x402.
Security declaration	n/a	Payment is the access control for an x402 resource.

Applicable criteria total 75 points, scaled to 100.

Responsiveness: Responsive (94 ms; bands ≤2.5 s, ≤5 s, ≤8 s, slower; penalty only).

Payment evidence: x402_challenge — We sent a request and got a live HTTP 402 challenge. Also: x402_manifest. Qualifies the payment claim; adds no points.

Measured 2026-11-11.

Nine criteria, the same as the A2A readiness score, read from our daily probe of the paid endpoint, its payment requirements and 30-day probe history. Signed descriptor and security declaration are n/a for x402 (payment is the access control), as is an x402 version we have not observed; the remaining points are scaled to 100. Grades: A>=90, B>=75, C>=60, D>=40, F<40. It also feeds 15 points of the x402 quality grade.

Compared with peers

Against 10,082 reachable x402 APIs in our daily snapshot (2026-11-12 06:46 UTC). Display only; it does not change search order.

Readiness: Higher than 60% of peers; This listing 81 · peer median 78
Latency: Faster than 90% of peers; This listing 94 ms · peer median 205 ms

Where it loses the most points, and how to win them back

Live 402 challenge −5 — Answer the paid path with a valid 402 challenge.
Now: Endpoint reachable; its 402 challenge was seen earlier (94 ms).
Verified identity −5 — Claim the listing and prove control of its domain.
Now: Publisher descriptor (/.well-known/x402 or OpenAPI) on record; claim this listing to verify domain control.
Freshness + modern flags −4 — Keep the listing current in the registry or source it comes from.
Now: not seen in a source for over 30 days; declares x402.

How many agent tools actually work · All statistics

Paid endpoints

5 resource(s) advertised by this origin. Each price below is that resource's own x402 price; the headline price is the range across them.

POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/evidence-pack

Find 3-10 scholarly candidates for a question or topic. Returns DOI/OpenAlex IDs, authors, year, venue, source URLs, citation context, open-access location, and known retraction/correction warnings. JSON only. Does not claim that a paper proves a statement.

POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/evidence-pack/preview

Free preview of the same pipeline; at most 3 papers; no payment.

POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/citation-report

Verify a bibliography. For every reference: exists, resolves, retracted/corrected/flagged, title/author/year match against the registered record, and a rule-derived fabrication risk — as a signed (Ed25519, RFC 8785 canonical JSON), byte-reproducible JSON report. Input: structured references or BibTe

POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/citation-report/large

Verify a bibliography. For every reference: exists, resolves, retracted/corrected/flagged, title/author/year match against the registered record, and a rule-derived fabrication risk — as a signed (Ed25519, RFC 8785 canonical JSON), byte-reproducible JSON report. Input: structured references or BibTe

POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/citation-report/preview

Free preview of the Citation Integrity Report: the first 3 references, unsigned; no payment.

How to call

cURL · x402-fetch / x402-axios will auto-handle 402

curl -sS -i -X POST https://aep-api.fly.dev/v1/evidence-pack  # expect HTTP 402 Payment Required (about 0.03 USDC/call)

MCP endpoint

https://aep-api.fly.dev/mcp

/.well-known/x402.json

https://aep-api.fly.dev/.well-known/x402

Listed in

Directories this entry was found in.

mcp since 2026-10-08 x402 since 2026-10-08