Weekly roundups · Updated 2026-10-26
This week in AI agents: Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026
This week in AI agents (Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026): DartzDabz tracked 2,233 agent tools and scored 1,918. 708 of 1,327 scored MCP servers now require sign-in before listing tools, and 645 x402 endpoints are tracked (591 scored, 54 opted out).
2026-W44, 2026-10-26 to 2026-11-01. This week is in progress; numbers refresh with each daily crawl (latest 2026-10-26). 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): 645 x402 endpoints tracked (591 scored, 54 opted out), median across scored endpoints: $0.005/call (2026-10-26). Agents are paying for API calls themselves in USDC via HTTP 402, with no API key or signup. As of Oct 26, 2026 we track 645 x402 endpoints across 401 hosts (591 scored, 54 opted out via robots.txt); median across scored endpoints: $0.005 per call.
- Remote MCP servers: plug tools into any agent by URL: 1,580 remote MCP endpoints indexed (2026-10-26). MCP servers are moving from local installs to hosted URLs. We index 1,580 remote MCP endpoints from the official MCP Registry and Smithery (Oct 26, 2026).
- MCP servers behind OAuth: 708 of 1,327 scored MCP servers required auth (Oct 26, 2026). 53% of the MCP servers we scored (708 of 1,327, Oct 26, 2026) ask for auth before they list their tools, including 174 of the 177 scored 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 | 2,233 (1,918 scored, 295 opted out via robots.txt) |
| Remote MCP servers | 1,580 (1,327 scored) |
| Scored MCP servers requiring sign-in | 708 of 1,327 |
| x402 endpoints | 645 tracked (591 scored, 54 opted out) across 401 hosts |
| Tools first checked this week | 56 |
Which scores moved most?
| Tool | Change | Score |
|---|---|---|
| glim.sh search | +100 | 0 → 100 |
| api.geoprimitives.dev depth | +100 | 0 → 100 |
| toolsmith-api.dassad10.workers.dev search | +100 | 0 → 100 |
| toolcall.click rates | +100 | 0 → 100 |
| bazaar.fronesislabs.com fast | -96 | 96 → 0 |
| AIsa API | -55 | 90 → 35 |
| AIsa API | -55 | 90 → 35 |
| AIsa API | -55 | 90 → 35 |
| api.mach.gallery block-number | -45 | 100 → 55 |
| agentbit.app search | -10 | 100 → 90 |
What we built and decided that week: this week's build diary.
Also this week: Oct 26 on X.
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x402 prices: "median across scored endpoints" uses endpoints with a current score and a listed price; the monthly report uses all priced endpoints. How we calculate it.
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