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title: "Call Trooth before you trust a vendor - Trooth"
description: "Before your AI relies on a vendor: read its witnessed record, take a live outside-in read, verify any Trust Ledger Token. One MCP endpoint, 7 read-only tools."
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# Agents and MCP

An AI agent should check a vendor as a careful buyer would before relying on, recommending, integrating with or paying it. Trooth answers in one call, every answer labeled by source.

## The pattern

Four read-only steps. The first is almost always enough; the rest suit bigger decisions.

### Read the witnessed record

1. `trooth_public_trust_profile`
   Look up the vendor by domain or Trooth slug.
   - **Domain:** a URL is cut to its host and matched exactly.
   - **Slug:** also matches a published company's name as a slug, if only one company carries it. No similar-name matches, no picking among several.
   - **Published:** its Trust Profile (signed evidence, re-checked on a schedule).
   - **Not published:** its listing state from a signed reading (listed, never a rank).
   - **Nothing on file:** an honest not-found, not a guess.
### Take a live outside-in read

2. `trooth_outside_in_read`
   A live, neutral read of HTTPS and TLS reachability, security headers and security.txt. Labeled observations, not witnessed evidence or a grade.
### Verify any signed token you were handed

3. `trooth_verify`
   Check any Trust Ledger Token the vendor gave you. Trooth re-runs both signatures and returns one status:
   - **valid**, expired or revoked.
   - **invalid**: a signature fails; treat the token as tampered.
   - **unclaimed**: never issued; an honest absence.
   Trooth's signature covers the signing event; the company's signature covers the claim bytes. Neither covers whether the claims are true.
### Report with provenance, act on the gap

4. Separate witnessed from observed, keeping each provenance label and reading date. Treat an honest absence as missing data, not a pass or a fail.

## Connect your agent

Trooth speaks the Model Context Protocol. Point an MCP client that connects to remote servers over streamable HTTP at the endpoint below. 7 tools answer without an account, and 1 more reads only your own workspace with an OAuth access token; every tool below lists its access, what it returns, its argument limits and its cost.

- **No Trooth key, no Trooth account** for the public tools: they read public data only and write nothing. Subscribing to a company's changes is a separate call that stores state and makes Trooth send requests later.
- **One more tool** reads your own workspace after sign-in, with an OAuth access token and no scope. The section below says how a client gets that token.
- **Your assistant** may need its own account, plan or admin approval, and decides when to call a tool and how to use the answer.
- **In ChatGPT**, Trooth Network is listed in the app directory: if your plan, region and workspace allow, [open the listing](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a9361d2ee7481919a8c706c3ff5388f).

| **Endpoint** | `POST https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp` |
| --- | --- |
| **Transport** | Streamable HTTP, JSON-RPC 2.0, one JSON response per POST (no SSE, session id or batches) |
| **Protocol** | Leads with `2026-07-28`; every request needs an `MCP-Protocol-Version` header. `initialize` for 2025-06-18, 2025-03-26 or 2024-11-05 still works in full. |
| **Server** | `trooth-mcp 1.5.0` |
| **Descriptor** | `/.well-known/mcp.json` is Trooth's own: MCP has no `.well-known` path, only the in-band `server/discover` RPC (Server Cards are a proposal). Use the endpoint above. |
| **Tools** | Public: trooth_public_trust_profile (company), trooth_outside_in_read (domain), trooth_verify (token), trooth_ask (question), trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures (company), trooth_search_companies (query), trooth_compare_companies (companies). One required string argument each. After sign-in: trooth_my_company_record, which takes no argument and needs an OAuth access token for this server, with no scope. |
| **Resources** | `trooth://methodology`, `trooth://provenance-labels`, `trooth://verify-a-vendor`, `trooth://what-a-call-sends` (markdown) |
| **Prompts** | vendor_trust_check (company), verify_trust_token (token), before_you_trust (company) |
| **Limits** | 300 units every 60 seconds per caller, in one counter shared by every server instance: the OAuth subject when a valid token is presented, otherwise the IP address. Each `tools/call` costs 1 to 4 units (trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures 1, trooth_ask 1, trooth_my_company_record 1, trooth_public_trust_profile 1, trooth_search_companies 1, trooth_verify 1, trooth_compare_companies 2, trooth_outside_in_read 4); listing and the handshake cost nothing. `trooth_outside_in_read` also holds at most 2 reads in progress per caller and 16 across the service. Over it: HTTP `429`, JSON-RPC `-32000`, `Retry-After` giving the seconds until units free up, and the request id in the error's data. Every metered answer carries `RateLimit-Policy` and `RateLimit` in the syntax of the IETF ratelimit-headers draft, and every answer carries `Trooth-Request-Id`. If the shared store does not answer within 250 ms, the serving instance meters the call itself at the same budget and says so with `Trooth-RateLimit-Store: instance`; the endpoint is never refused because the counter is down. |

### Every tool

All 8 tools on https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp (streamable-http transport, protocol 2026-07-28). Each call is metered against 300 units every 60 seconds per caller: the OAuth subject when a valid token is presented, otherwise the IP address. Tool policy version 2026-10-12.

| Tool | Access | Returns | Arguments (longest accepted, in characters) | Units per call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `trooth_public_trust_profile` one company's complete Trust Profile on the Trooth Network, every section with its state and who said it, after a short summary that links the full record | Public, no account | Public record data | `company` required, 2,048 `detail` optional, 7 `sections` optional, 400 | 1 |
| `trooth_outside_in_read` a live, neutral read of a domain's public surface right now: HTTPS reachability, five common response headers and security.txt | Public, no account | Externally fetched data, read from the named domain at call time | `domain` required, 2,048 | 4 |
| `trooth_verify` re-check the two signatures on a Trust Ledger Token | Public, no account | A signature check of the token you send | `token` required, 16,384 | 1 |
| `trooth_ask` a question about Trooth itself, answered from its fixed knowledge base | Public, no account | Trooth's own public documents | `question` required, 500 | 1 |
| `trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures` what one company has declared about AI and customer data, each row labeled as the company's own declaration | Public, no account | Public record data | `company` required, 2,048 | 1 |
| `trooth_search_companies` search the companies published on the Trooth Network by name, domain, tagline or category | Public, no account | Public record data | `query` required, 200 `industry` optional, 100 | 1 |
| `trooth_compare_companies` two to four companies' Trust Profiles side by side, section by section, each cell the company's own record | Public, no account | Public record data | `companies` required, 1,200 `sections` optional, 400 | 2 |
| `trooth_my_company_record` your own workspace's company record, after sign-in | OAuth access token; reads only your own workspace | Caller-private data | None | 1 |

### Add Trooth to your assistant

Each client takes the endpoint URL; Trooth needs no listing, approval, account or charge.

- **Limits:** plan, region and admin limits per vendor. Accepting the URL is not a vendor listing or approval.
- **Dates:** as of September 2026, per the vendor page cited; steps a page does not describe are marked.
- **Removal:** Trooth issues no key and holds no session, so removing it in your client is enough.
- **Answers:** check an assistant's citations and dates; AI answers can still be wrong.

**Claude**

**Who can:**Free (one connector), Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, on claude.ai, Desktop, Cowork and mobile. No region limit stated; the server must be reachable from Anthropic's cloud, as this one is.

**Add:**Customize › Connectors › + › Add custom connector, paste the URL, Add, choose No sign-in. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first (Organization settings › Connectors › Add › Custom, Web), then members press Connect; Claude Code shows it when signed in with claude.ai.

**To remove:**Customize › Connectors › Remove (or the three-dot menu). Team and Enterprise owners remove it under Admin settings › Connectors.

As of September 2026, per [Claude docs, remote MCP connectors](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/custom/remote-mcp) and [Claude Help Center](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11175166-get-started-with-custom-connectors-using-remote-mcp).

**ChatGPT**

**Who can:**Trooth Network is listed in ChatGPT's app directory, by plan, region, workspace and role. Adding the URL yourself needs Developer mode (web only, never Free, admin-enabled, no region limit stated); OpenAI's own pages disagree about the rest: its developer docs list Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education, and its help center lists Business, Enterprise and Edu only.

**Add:**Settings › Security and login › Developer mode (Settings › Apps › Advanced settings on Business, Enterprise, Edu). Then Plugins › +, name it, paste the URL with /mcp; it appears under Drafts.

**To remove:**Settings › Apps (or Plugins) › select › Disconnect; admins disable apps in Workspace settings. Deleting a Developer mode draft could not be confirmed.

As of September 2026, per [OpenAI developer docs, Developer mode](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/developer-mode), [OpenAI, connect from ChatGPT](https://developers.openai.com/plugins/deploy/connect-chatgpt), [OpenAI Help Center, Developer mode](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12584461-developer-mode-and-mcp-apps-in-chatgpt) and [OpenAI Help Center, managing apps](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001494-connecting-and-managing-app-accounts-in-chatgpt).

**Grok**

**Who can:**Available to all Grok users, platforms unnamed (as read 2026-09-28); no region limit stated. On Business and Enterprise a team admin provisions it in the cloud console first.

**Add:**grok.com/connectors › New Connector › Custom › paste the URL. Admins: cloud console › + Add Connector › Other.

**To remove:**Individual removal could not be confirmed. A Business or Enterprise admin with Team Read-Write removes it in the cloud console.

As of September 2026, per [xAI docs, Connectors](https://docs.x.ai/grok/connectors) and [xAI docs, Connector management](https://docs.x.ai/grok/connector-management).

**Gemini**

**Who can:**Requires: 18 or over, in the US, a personal account, Keep Activity on, English. Add in the Gemini web app, use on web and mobile; tied to Gemini Spark (Google AI Pro or Ultra), with no word on use without it.

**Add:**gemini.google.com on a computer › Settings › Connected Apps › Add a custom app › paste the URL › Next.

**To remove:**Settings › Connected Apps: turn the app off, or select it › More details › Remove app.

As of September 2026, per [Gemini Apps Help, custom apps](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17209137) and [Gemini Apps Help, Gemini Spark](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094507).

**Cursor**

**Who can:**Cursor documents Streamable HTTP servers; no plan or region limit stated.

**Add:**Use the Cursor install link below, or add "trooth": { "url": "https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp" } under mcpServers in .cursor/mcp.json (one project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (every project).

**To remove:**Customize in the sidebar: toggle it off so it no longer loads. Removal could not be confirmed.

As of September 2026, per [Cursor docs, MCP](https://cursor.com/docs/mcp) and [Cursor docs, install links](https://cursor.com/docs/mcp/install-links).

**VS Code**

**Who can:**Remote http servers; organizations manage MCP access via GitHub policies. No plan or region limit stated.

**Add:**Install link below, MCP: Add Server, or the block below in a project-root .mcp.json (.vscode/mcp.json uses "servers", not "mcpServers").

**To remove:**Extensions view › MCP SERVERS - INSTALLED › right-click › Disable, or MCP: List Servers. Uninstalling could not be confirmed.

As of September 2026, per [VS Code docs, MCP servers](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/mcp-servers) and [VS Code docs, MCP configuration](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agents/reference/mcp-configuration).

**Claude Code**

**Who can:**Anthropic documents the http transport for remote servers and deprecates SSE. No plan, subscription or region limit stated.

**Add:**claude mcp add --transport http trooth https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp (add --scope project to write the block below to .mcp.json).

**To remove:**claude mcp remove trooth

As of September 2026, per [Claude Code docs, MCP](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp).

**Gemini CLI**

**Who can:**Google documents Streamable HTTP servers for Gemini CLI via httpUrl. No plan or region limit stated.

**Add:**gemini mcp add --transport http trooth https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp, or add "trooth": { "httpUrl": "https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp" } under mcpServers in settings.json (url is for SSE servers).

**To remove:**gemini mcp remove trooth

As of September 2026, per [Gemini CLI docs, MCP servers](https://geminicli.com/docs/tools/mcp-server/).

**Copilot Studio**

**Who can:**Agents and agent flows on the standard harness, streamable only, via Power Platform connectors (data loss prevention applies); no region requirement named. Microsoft's MCP server certification program requires an authentication method, which the public tools added this way do not use, so add it as an existing server.

**Add:**Tools › Add a tool › New tool › Model Context Protocol. Enter name, description and URL, choose None for authentication, then Create, Create a new connection, Add to agent.

**To remove:**Removing an MCP tool could not be confirmed.

As of September 2026, per [Copilot Studio docs, connect to an existing MCP server](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/mcp-add-existing-server-to-agent) and [Copilot Studio docs, MCP server certification](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/mcp-server-certification).

The URL, every time: `https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp`

### Add it in one click

Only Cursor and VS Code document install links; others take the endpoint in a dialog, or a command-line tool for Claude Code and Gemini CLI.

- [Add Trooth to Cursor](cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=trooth&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FwaS50cm9vdGguY28vcHVibGljL21jcCJ9)
- [Add Trooth to VS Code](vscode:mcp/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22trooth%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22http%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fapi.trooth.co%2Fpublic%2Fmcp%22%7D)

### Client configuration

A project `.mcp.json` for Claude Code and VS Code. Cursor omits the `type` line.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "trooth": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### A call on 2026-07-28

No `initialize`: `server/discover` replaced it. A request without the `MCP-Protocol-Version` header is refused with `-32020`, never downgraded.

```http
POST https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28
Mcp-Method: server/discover

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "server/discover",
  "params": {
    "_meta": {
      "io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion": "2026-07-28",
      "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities": {}
    }
  }
}

POST https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28
Mcp-Method: tools/call
Mcp-Name: trooth_public_trust_profile

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "trooth_public_trust_profile",
    "arguments": { "company": "example.com" },
    "_meta": {
      "io.modelcontextprotocol/protocolVersion": "2026-07-28",
      "io.modelcontextprotocol/clientCapabilities": {}
    }
  }
}
```

### The same call on 2025-06-18

Still answered. Older revisions open with `initialize`, send no protocol header and have no `server/discover`; an unknown revision is answered as `2025-06-18`, not refused.

```http
POST https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "initialize",
  "params": {
    "protocolVersion": "2025-06-18",
    "capabilities": {},
    "clientInfo": { "name": "your-client", "version": "1.0.0" }
  }
}

POST https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "trooth_public_trust_profile",
    "arguments": { "company": "example.com" }
  }
}
```

### What comes back

Each non-error answer has prose in `content` and a typed record in `structuredContent`. Branch on fields, not sentences.

- Always: `status`, `provenance`, `subject` (empty for `trooth_ask`), `summary`.
- `claim_url`: only for `unclaimed` or `private`.
- `summary`: the full prose, word for word.

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": {
    "content": [{ "type": "text", "text": "No published Trust Profile for \"example.com\" on Trooth. Nothing about it is witnessed here - an honest absence, not a judgment. ..." }],
    "structuredContent": {
      "status": "unclaimed",
      "provenance": "honest_absence",
      "subject": "example.com",
      "summary": "No published Trust Profile for \"example.com\" on Trooth. ...",
      "claim_url": "https://trooth.co/claim?slug=example.com&src=mcp&via=claude"
    },
    "isError": false
  }
}
```

| **status** | `published, listed, unclaimed, private, observed, valid, invalid, expired, revoked, answered, out_of_scope, bad_input, unavailable, own_record, not_linked, busy` |
| --- | --- |
| **provenance** | `witnessed_reading, connected_system_reads, ledger_token_signatures, signed_scan, live_observation, honest_absence, withheld_by_owner, withheld_pending_review, knowledge_base, input_error, self_declared, read_failed, own_workspace, network_records` |

Read each status with its provenance:

- `unclaimed` with `honest_absence`: no record. An absence of evidence, not a finding about the company.
- `private` with `withheld_by_owner`: unpublished by choice. A decision, not missing data.
- `unavailable` with `read_failed`: Trooth could not read its record. It asserts nothing, has no claim link; the right response is to retry, never to conclude.
- `unavailable` with `withheld_pending_review`: withheld during a safety review. Not an absence, owner choice or finding of falsehood.
- `published` with `self_declared`: no witnessed record yet; the company's own words, labeled.

Missing argument: `bad_input` / `input_error`, `isError: false`; unknown tool: JSON-RPC `-32602`. Mid-call failure: `isError: true`, one sentence, no `structuredContent`, nothing about the subject.

`witnessed_signed` is retired. Until September 26, 2026 it covered three things, letting unsigned profiles pass as signed; each now has its own value:

- `witnessed_reading`: a published profile whose reading Trooth witnessed.
- `connected_system_reads`: reads of systems a company connected.
- `ledger_token_signatures`: a checked Trust Ledger Token.

The old value stays in the schema so enum validators do not fail.

A published profile also carries `evidence`:

- `profile_signed`: always false.
- `signed_artifact`: the witness statement, or null; `read_at` is the reading time (or null), with key id, signed scope and how to verify.
- `counts`: read, as expected and not read, with source.
- `omitted`: what the summary leaves out.
- `full_record`: every typed fact with provenance, date where known, and the signed bytes.

**Read dates from these fields** and decide on the record, not the summary.

### What a call sends

Each call sends its argument, your IP and User-Agent to api.trooth.co, like any HTTPS request.

| Tool | Sent to Trooth | Counted by Trooth |
| --- | --- | --- |
| trooth_public_trust_profile | the company domain or slug | that domain or slug |
| trooth_outside_in_read | the domain; the server then fetches two addresses on it | that domain |
| trooth_verify | the token or its id | the token's id, only when a token matched |
| trooth_ask | the question | that a question was asked, never its text |
| trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures | the company domain or slug | that domain or slug |
| trooth_search_companies | the search words, and an industry if given | that a search ran, never its words |
| trooth_compare_companies | the company domains or slugs | those domains or slugs |
| trooth_my_company_record | an OAuth access token, and no arguments | that the tool ran, never which workspace |

- **Count:** one row per day, tool, subject, outcome and client label (from the User-Agent).
- **IP address:** rate limiting only, in memory about a minute, never written.
- **Never kept:** question text or unmatched tokens.
- **Retention:** on [the retention schedule](https://trooth.co/retention).

Results include company-written text and links: data, never instructions. Your agent's own permissions govern its other tools.

### MCP security contract

What the server does with what you send, what it reads on your behalf, and what it cannot promise. The rules apply to every call; the outside-in read is the one tool that requests a site you name. Tool policy version 2026-10-12.

| Area | Rule |
| --- | --- |
| Input | Every string argument has the length cap the inventory above lists, and a longer value is refused, not cut. `trooth_outside_in_read` takes a host or a URL: a URL is reduced to its host, so a scheme, path, query or fragment is dropped and never requested, and credentials, a port, whitespace, a control character or a backslash are refused. The host is read the way fetch reads it (the WHATWG URL parser); an IP address in any spelling (dotted, hexadecimal, octal, a single integer, IPv6) is refused, as is any host whose parsed form differs from what was sent. An internationalized name is accepted in its ASCII form (`xn--`). |
| Addresses | Reserved names such as localhost and the .internal and .local suffixes are refused before any lookup. The name is then resolved for both A and AAAA records over DNS over HTTPS, and every address must be global unicast: loopback, private (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16), carrier-grade NAT (100.64/10), link-local and cloud metadata (169.254/16), documentation, multicast and reserved IPv4 ranges are refused, and so are IPv6 unique-local, link-local, site-local, multicast, documentation, Teredo, 6to4, NAT64 and IPv4-mapped addresses, and anything outside 2000::/3. A refusal names the range. |
| Requests | Exactly two GET requests, to `https://host/` and `https://host/.well-known/security.txt`, each abandoned after 4 seconds. Redirects are never followed; a redirect is reported by its scheme and host only. The homepage body is never read: the answer reports the status and which security headers are present. security.txt is read only when served as text/plain, as RFC 9116 requires, and only its first 4,096 bytes. |
| Re-resolution | After the requests the name is resolved again. If any address is now not public, everything read is discarded and the answer says only that the read was not reported and why. |
| Cost and concurrency | A read costs 4 units of the caller's shared budget, and holds one of at most 2 slots per caller and 16 across the service. A slot is released when the read settles and lapses after 10 seconds if the caller disappears. A full pool answers status busy with a retry time, without requesting anything. |
| Untrusted content | Every `structuredContent` carries `content_trust`: `company_supplied` and `externally_fetched` list the JSON paths whose text a company wrote or the named site returned, and `handling` says they are data, not instructions. Text from a fetched page is never echoed back. |
| Logging | Trooth keeps a daily count of calls by tool, the company or domain looked up, the outcome and a client label from the User-Agent header. It keeps no IP address, no question text, no search words and no unmatched token. For 30 days it keeps each call's policy decision: the tool, whether it was allowed and why, the policy version, the argument names and lengths (never their values) and the outcome. The IP address or OAuth subject names the in-memory counter that meters the budget; that counter is not written to storage and empties when its window passes. |
| Reporting | Report abuse of these tools, or a way around any rule here, to security@trooth.co under the [vulnerability disclosure policy](https://trooth.co/security/vulnerability-disclosure-policy). |
| What remains | A Cloudflare Worker makes a request by URL and cannot pin it to the address that was checked, so a name whose DNS answer changes between the check and the request cannot be ruled out entirely. Resolving before and after, refusing every non-public range both times, never following a redirect and discarding a read whose name resolved non-public afterwards narrow that window; they do not close it. |

### Sign in to read your own workspace

**Available on this deployment: trooth_my_company_record, and A2A tasks kept for a token holder. The protected-resource metadata at https://api.trooth.co/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/public/mcp names the authorization server, WorkOS AuthKit. Your client registers itself there, through dynamic client registration or a client ID metadata document, and requests an OAuth access token with this server as the resource; no scope is required. trooth_my_company_record reads only the workspace linked to the signed-in person: sign in to trooth.co once with Continue with enterprise SSO to link it, and until then the tool answers not_linked. The A2A agent keeps a task for a token holder for 24 hours, readable only by that subject and client. The public tools (trooth_public_trust_profile, trooth_outside_in_read, trooth_verify, trooth_ask, trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures, trooth_search_companies, trooth_compare_companies) and the three A2A skills still need no token.**

The public tools (trooth_public_trust_profile, trooth_outside_in_read, trooth_verify, trooth_ask, trooth_ai_data_use_disclosures, trooth_search_companies, trooth_compare_companies) need no token and no account. trooth_my_company_record reads your own workspace and needs an OAuth access token for this server from WorkOS AuthKit, Trooth's sign-in provider, with no scope. A call to it with no token answers 401 with a WWW-Authenticate header naming the protected-resource metadata at https://api.trooth.co/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/public/mcp, which lists the authorization server; your client discovers the rest from there.

`trooth_my_company_record` needs a token for this server and no scope. The authorization server does not grant custom scopes to a client that registers itself, so none is asked for.

Protected-resource metadata: `https://api.trooth.co/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/public/mcp`.

1. Let your client register itself with WorkOS AuthKit, through dynamic client registration or a client ID metadata document. Both are turned on, and no scope is needed.
2. Sign in to trooth.co once with Continue with enterprise SSO, using the same WorkOS AuthKit account. That links your workspace to the account; until then the tool answers not_linked and reads nothing.
3. Request the token with that endpoint as `resource`, naming this server as audience; other tokens are refused.
4. The workspace comes from the signed-in person, never an argument.

Every call checks the token; one that only parses is refused. Invalid or expired tokens get 401, even on public tools, and are never stored, logged or passed on.

| Check | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| Issuer | The token was issued by an authorization server this resource's metadata names. A token from an issuer nobody listed is a token from somebody else's system. |
| Audience or resource | The token was issued FOR this server, as the resource indicator asked for under RFC 8707. Without it, a token a user granted to any other service on the same authorization server is replayable here. |
| Expiry | The token is inside its validity window, judged against the server's own clock and not a claim in the token about when it was made. |
| Signature | The signature verifies against the issuer's published keys, fetched from the issuer's metadata and not from anything the token points at itself. |
| Scopes | The scopes present cover the operation being attempted. A valid token is not an entitlement to every tool; the four action levels in the agent safety policy are what a scope has to map onto. Since October 5, 2026 no Trooth operation requires a scope, so this check runs and asks for nothing; the issuer, audience, subject and workspace link carry the decision. |
| Client context | The client the token was issued to is the client presenting it, and is one this deployment is willing to serve. Structural validity is not authorization, which is the whole sentence REQ-4-1684 ends on. |

OAuth 2.1 is an Internet-Draft of the IETF OAuth working group (draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1), not a finalized RFC, and the MCP specification references it as one. The published Best Current Practice it consolidates, RFC 9700, is the document to hold an implementation to today.

Your model, the app it runs in, the tools it can call and the state your workflow keeps are four separate parts. Browsing, memory and background work are app features; the model alone does none of that.

Trooth publishes no size, nesting depth or delay at which agents stop working; none holds universally. Position effects in long-input research are about the models tested, not every agent in use today.

**Every fact keeps its provenance**; the record reads one section at a time.

The three prompts (vendor_trust_check, verify_trust_token, before_you_trust) run this pattern with provenance rules; the 4 resources explain the methodology, labels and verify-before-you-trust sequence.

## Delegate a task over A2A

Over the Agent2Agent protocol, your agent can hand Trooth one of three read-only tasks. A2A 1.0, JSONRPC binding.

MCP and A2A are separate protocols for separate jobs: tools for a model, tasks between agents. Each endpoint answers only its own.

- Agent Card: `https://api.trooth.co/.well-known/agent-card.json`
- Endpoint: `POST https://api.trooth.co/a2a/v1`, with the header `A2A-Version: 1.0`

The Agent Card lists endpoint, binding, version, skills and sign-in. It is not a company's evidence profile and says nothing about any company; use the `company_record` skill.

| Skill | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| company_record | Look up a company's public record on the Trooth Network, by domain or Trooth slug. |
| verify_token | Check the two signatures on a Trust Ledger Token (a receipt) against Trooth's ledger. |
| ask | Ask a bounded question about Trooth itself, answered from its fixed knowledge base. |

One message per task, with at most four parts:

- A text part is a question for `ask`.
- A JSON data part names a skill and its argument, such as `{"skill":"company_record","company":"acme.com"}`.
- File and link parts are refused; Trooth fetches nothing for you.

Task and context ids track a conversation. They are not passwords.

- **Without a token:** a message reply; nothing is kept.
- **With an OAuth access token** for `https://api.trooth.co/a2a/v1` from the authorization server its metadata names (`https://api.trooth.co/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/a2a/v1`), with no scope: only you and your client can read the task, for 24 hours. Anyone else who presents the id is told the task does not exist.

| Method | What this agent answers |
| --- | --- |
| SendMessage | Runs one skill. Without a token: a Message, and nothing is kept. With an OAuth access token for this agent, with no scope: a completed Task that only that token's subject and client can read back. |
| GetTask | Needs the token the task was created with (same subject and client). Any other caller gets Task not found. |
| ListTasks | The caller's own kept tasks, newest first, paged. |
| CancelTask | Task not cancelable: every task completes inside SendMessage. |
| SendStreamingMessage, SubscribeToTask | Unsupported operation: streaming is not offered. |
| Push notification config methods | Push notifications not supported: this agent makes no callbacks. |
| GetExtendedAgentCard | Extended agent card not configured: the public card is the whole card. |

The card is unsigned; clients trust it via api.trooth.co's HTTPS certificate.

## Subscribe to changes

Register a webhook for changes in a published company's witnessed counts. No email or account: post a public https URL, get a signing secret.

A scheduled sweep posts only when something changed.

```http
POST https://api.trooth.co/public/trust/example.com/agent-subscribe
Content-Type: application/json

{ "webhookUrl": "https://your-service.example/hooks/trooth" }

Trooth first POSTs a challenge to that URL, and your endpoint answers 2xx
with the challenge value in its body within 5 seconds:
  { "type": "trooth.subscription.challenge", "challenge": "trooth_chal_...", "slug": "example.com", "created": 1790000000000 }

200 OK
{
  "ok": true,
  "id": "sub_0123456789abcdef01",
  "slug": "example.com",
  "vendor": "Example",
  "secret": "whsec_...",
  "event": "trust.posture.changed",
  "signature_header": "x-trooth-signature",
  "signature": "HMAC-SHA256 hex of the raw request body, keyed by your secret",
  "signature_v2": "x-trooth-signature-v2: v2= followed by the HMAC-SHA256 hex, same secret, of x-trooth-delivery-timestamp, a full stop and the raw body. ...",
  "delivery": "At least once, up to three attempts, not ordered. Deduplicate on the event id.",
  "profile_url": "https://trooth.co/trust/example.com",
  "manage_url": "https://trooth.co/trust/manage?t=...",
  "provenance": "Deliveries carry witnessed changes only. ...",
  "message": "Subscribed. A confirmation ping was sent to your webhook. ..."
}
```

- **Path:** domain or workspace slug. Unpublished companies return `404` `not_found_or_private`.
- **Secret:** your `secret` (16 to 128 letters, digits, underscores or hyphens) or a generated one, shown once.
- **Limit:** 20 subscriptions an hour per IP address.

Since September 26, 2026, two checks come first:

1. **Challenge.** Trooth POSTs `{ type: "trooth.subscription.challenge", challenge }`; reply 2xx echoing the value within 5 seconds, no redirect. Otherwise nothing more is sent or stored (`400 destination_not_confirmed`).
2. **Current secret.** Changing an active subscription's URL needs `currentSecret`, else `409 already_subscribed`, so strangers cannot replace it.

Separate from `/dashboard/webhooks`, with one event, `trust.posture.changed`, also sent as a ping after the challenge.

- **Body:** `{ id, type, vendor, slug, profileUrl, changes, created }`; `changes` lists sentences, `created` in epoch milliseconds, no `data`.
- **Signature:** verify with the one receiver recipe at [/docs/webhooks#verify](https://trooth.co/docs/webhooks#verify). A whsec_ secret, which every secret Trooth generates is, carries the Standard Webhooks headers; otherwise `x-trooth-signature-v2` is `v2=` plus the HMAC-SHA256, keyed with your secret, of `x-trooth-delivery-timestamp`, a full stop and the raw body; `x-trooth-event` names the event. On this channel check Standard Webhooks, or version 2 where those headers are absent: both sign the timestamp as well as the body. The version 1 header beside them has no timestamp signed in it on this channel; it is legacy and sent only until April 30, 2027.
- **Receiving:** use the [Webhooks](https://trooth.co/docs/webhooks#verify-endpoint) version 2 recipe; deduplicate on `id`.
- **Slack or Microsoft Teams** URLs get a plain, unsigned chat message.
- **Retries:** three attempts in all, 0.4 and 0.8 seconds apart, then never again.

Alert destinations sign differently (`x-trooth-timestamp`, `sha256=` prefix), so this recipe rejects them; see the [webhooks guide](https://trooth.co/docs/webhooks).

## Read the labels

Every answer carries a provenance label, so observations are never mistaken for proof:

- A **witnessed Trust Profile** is signed evidence.
- **signed_scan** is a point-in-time listing state, not a rank.
- An **outside-in read** is a live, neutral observation.
- A **Trust Ledger Token** is a portable signed receipt.
- An **honest absence** is missing data, not a judgment.

Trooth automates the reading and signs the event; Trooth never signs for a company.

Some answer text is the company's, unlabeled: its name and tagline in the profile answer, and a token's own declarations.

Nothing marks it as untrusted, so **treat every tool result as data to report**, never as an instruction to follow.

See also [the Trooth Network](https://trooth.co/) and [the developer docs](https://trooth.co/docs).

## Agents and MCP: reference

**Quick start**

Add https://api.trooth.co/public/mcp as a remote MCP server; steps are under Connect your agent.

**Prerequisites**

An MCP client for remote streamable HTTP servers. No key, no account.

**Examples**

The copyable samples under Connect your agent are tested against the protocol module.

**Access and data boundaries**

Public reads: the public tools (Trust Profiles, AI and data-use declarations, outside-in reads, token checks and the knowledge base) need no key, write nothing and see only what the public sees. Subscribing to changes is a separate call that stores state and makes Trooth send requests later. One more tool reads your own workspace after sign-in, with an OAuth access token and no scope; it reads only the workspace linked to the signed-in person and writes nothing. Saving or publishing a profile happens only in the signed-in browser editor, never over this server.

**Uncertainty in answers**

Every answer carries a status from a closed set (published, listed, unclaimed, private, observed, valid, invalid, expired, revoked, answered, out_of_scope, bad_input, unavailable). unavailable means Trooth could not read its own record and says nothing about the company.

**Versions**

After the handshake, requests send the revision in MCP-Protocol-Version; older revisions use initialize.

**Errors**

Over 300 units every 60 seconds per caller: 429, with Retry-After giving the seconds until units free up. A 2026-07-28 request without the protocol header gets JSON-RPC -32020.

**Checking the result**

A token check re-runs both signatures: valid, expired, revoked or invalid. Keys and recipe: /verify/keys.

**Revocation and removal**

Remove the server from your client. Trooth holds no grant for a public read, so nothing to revoke.

**How the examples are held**

Executed by tests against the published MCP tool catalog (docs/rebuild-package/MCP_TOOL_CATALOG.md) and lib/mcp-protocol.ts.

### Troubleshooting

- **The client reports a protocol error as soon as it calls a tool.** Send MCP-Protocol-Version with the discovered revision, or fall back to an older initialize handshake.
- **Answers stop with 429.** Wait Retry-After seconds. The budget, 300 units every 60 seconds per caller, is counted in one store shared by every server instance.
- **A tool answers unavailable.** Trooth could not read its own record. Retry later; it is not a statement that the company has no record.

## Structured data

```json
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "@id": "https://trooth.co/#org",
      "name": "Trooth",
      "legalName": "Trooth, LLC",
      "alternateName": [
        "Trooth, LLC",
        "Trooth Network",
        "trooth.co"
      ],
      "url": "https://trooth.co",
      "logo": {
        "@type": "ImageObject",
        "@id": "https://trooth.co/#logo",
        "url": "https://trooth.co/brand/trooth-mark_black-on-white_1024.png",
        "contentUrl": "https://trooth.co/brand/trooth-mark_black-on-white_1024.png",
        "width": 1024,
        "height": 1024,
        "caption": "Trooth"
      },
      "image": {
        "@id": "https://trooth.co/#logo"
      },
      "description": "Trooth is an infrastructure and cybersecurity company providing Machine-Readable Trust. The Trooth Network keeps one current Machine-Readable Trust Profile per company, each fact sourced. Trooth signs what it witnessed; company declarations are unsigned.",
      "foundingDate": "2025-12-16",
      "address": {
        "@type": "PostalAddress",
        "streetAddress": "777 Brickell Ave, Suite 500, PMB 1174",
        "addressLocality": "Miami",
        "addressRegion": "FL",
        "postalCode": "33131",
        "addressCountry": "US"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "@type": "ContactPoint",
        "contactType": "customer support",
        "email": "hello@trooth.co",
        "url": "https://trooth.co/contact"
      },
      "sameAs": [
        "https://x.com/Troothllc",
        "https://github.com/troothllc",
        "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trooth",
        "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141292994",
        "https://www.youtube.com/@Troothllc",
        "https://www.trustpilot.com/review/trooth.co"
      ]
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebSite",
      "@id": "https://trooth.co/#website",
      "url": "https://trooth.co",
      "name": "Trooth",
      "alternateName": "Trooth Network",
      "inLanguage": "en",
      "publisher": {
        "@id": "https://trooth.co/#org"
      },
      "potentialAction": {
        "@type": "SearchAction",
        "target": {
          "@type": "EntryPoint",
          "urlTemplate": "https://trooth.co/network?q={search_term_string}"
        },
        "query-input": "required name=search_term_string"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "ItemList",
      "@id": "https://trooth.co/#sitelinks",
      "name": "Trooth sitelinks",
      "itemListElement": [
        {
          "@type": "SiteNavigationElement",
          "position": 1,
          "name": "Join Trooth for free",
          "url": "https://trooth.co/signup"
        },
        {
          "@type": "SiteNavigationElement",
          "position": 2,
          "name": "Company, Trooth",
          "url": "https://trooth.co/network/company/trooth"
        },
        {
          "@type": "SiteNavigationElement",
          "position": 3,
          "name": "Trooth Network",
          "url": "https://trooth.co/network"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```