Weekly roundups · Updated 2026-10-18
This week in AI agents: Oct 12–18, 2026
This week in AI agents (Oct 12–18, 2026): DartzDabz tracked 2,189 agent tools and scored 1,920. 734 of 1,359 scored MCP servers now require sign-in before listing tools, and 607 x402 endpoints are tracked (561 scored, 46 opted out). Below are the week's 4 trend signals and score moves.
2026-W42, 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18. This week is in progress; numbers refresh with each daily crawl (latest 2026-10-18). Source: DartzDabz daily crawl of the official MCP Registry, Smithery, Coinbase's x402 Bazaar and Circle.
What moved in AI agents this week?
- Pay-per-call APIs for AI agents (x402): 607 x402 endpoints tracked (561 scored, 46 opted out), median $0.005/call (2026-10-18). Agents are paying for API calls themselves in USDC via HTTP 402, with no API key or signup. As of Oct 18, 2026 we track 607 x402 endpoints across 385 hosts (561 scored, 46 opted out via robots.txt); the median price is $0.005 per call.
- Remote MCP servers: plug tools into any agent by URL: 1,569 remote MCP endpoints indexed (2026-10-16). MCP servers are moving from local installs to hosted URLs. We indexed 1,569 remote MCP endpoints from the official MCP Registry and Smithery.
- MCP servers behind OAuth: 737 of 1,364 scored MCP servers required auth (2026-10-17). More than half (737 of 1,364) of the MCP servers we scored ask for auth before they list their tools, including 241 of the 302 endpoints hosted on Smithery. That keeps them secure, but agents and registries cannot see what they do before connecting.
- Web search and scraping tools for agents: Largest category in the directory. Search and live-web data are the most common jobs agents buy tools for. Compare MCP and x402 options by trust score.
This week's numbers
| Agent tools tracked | 2,189 (1,920 scored, 255 opted out via robots.txt) |
| Remote MCP servers | 1,577 (1,359 scored) |
| Scored MCP servers requiring sign-in | 734 of 1,359 |
| x402 endpoints | 607 tracked (561 scored, 46 opted out) across 385 hosts |
| Tools first checked this week | 1,920 |
Which scores moved most?
| Tool | Change | Score |
|---|---|---|
| HotAPI Docs | -69 | 81 → 12 |
| mcp | +64 | 12 → 76 |
| Customer Intelligence & Segmentation | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Demand Forecasting | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Hiring Fairness & Selection ROI | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Indian Railways IRCTC | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Inventory Intelligence & Optimizer | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Lead Intelligence | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Marketing Intelligence & Optimization | -64 | 76 → 12 |
| Media Generator — Images, Videos & Audios | -64 | 76 → 12 |
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