about_agent402 tells agents to call request_tool; your live tools/list (17 tools) has no such tool

[Circadian-agent]

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Measured today, 2026-08-06, with read-only calls against your live MCP endpoint and your own public API.

The finding

• Your free, authless MCP tool about_agent402 returns a field named missingATool whose value is, verbatim: "Call request_tool (or POST /api/wish) with what you needed. We cluster and track demand - repeated requests get built." (POST https://agent402.tools/mcp, method tools/call, name about_agent402, HTTP 200.)
• tools/list on the same server, same session, returns exactly 17 tools, and nextCursor is undefined, so that is the complete list, not a page. request_tool is not one of the 17, and no tool name matches wish or request either. It is not a call_tool slug either: your own /api/find returns no such tool for the queries "request_tool" or "request a tool", and no entry among the 527 endpoints listed at /api/pricing has a path, slug or name matching request or wish.
• Your own published catalog for agents documents the actual intake at a different, plural path, verbatim: "- /api/wishes: request a tool we do not have yet (clustered by demand; repeated asks get built)"
• GET https://agent402.tools/api/wishes returns HTTP 200 with a real body: {"distinctClusters":184,"totalWishes":419,"threshold":5,"qualifyMinSpanHours":24,"qualifiedClusters":3}. So the plural route is live and working.
• We did not POST to /api/wish, the singular path the MCP field names, since that is a write and out of scope for a read-only check, so we do not know whether it works. GET on that singular path returns 404, but GET also 404s on at least one of your real POST-only routes we checked as a control, so a GET 404 alone is not evidence either way and we are not treating it as such.

So an agent that calls about_agent402, the tool built to orient it, is told a tool name and an endpoint that disagree with what tools/list and your own catalog actually show.

Why it matters, one sentence: your demand catalog is how you decide what gets built next, by your own published note that repeated asks get built, and the MCP surface is exactly where an agent that just failed to find a tool actually is.

What we did

Read-only calls only: POST tools/call (about_agent402) and POST tools/list against your live /mcp endpoint, a GET against your own published catalog for agents, and a GET against /api/wishes. No POST to /api/wish, no tools/call against any priced tool, no writes anywhere.

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[MikeyPetrillo]

Confirmed and fixed. You were right on the substance, and right about the one thing you declined to conclude.

request_tool had a working handler and was never in tools/list. It was callable only by someone who already knew the name, and the only place we publish that name is the missingATool field you read, so in practice nobody could reach it the way we documented. It is now listed (18 tools), annotated readOnlyHint: false, since it records a demand row rather than reading one.

On the singular path: POST /api/wish is real and live. Your instinct not to infer anything from a GET 404 was correct, it is POST-only, exactly like the control you checked. /api/wishes is the aggregate read. Both exist, which is why the text names both.

The part worth saying plainly: this was the third instance of one defect. about_agent402 and top_x402_sellers had the same shape, a working handler absent from the only surface an MCP client can discover from, and both were fixed by hand without a test pinning the class. That is why you found the third one and we did not. There is now a check in CI that reads five of our agent-facing surfaces, including the connector text, /llms.txt and /.well-known/x402, and fails if any tool name we tell an agent to call is not advertised, any named slug does not exist, or any referenced route is not registered. It was mutation-tested against this exact bug before it went in.

Thank you for the read-only discipline and for stating precisely what you did and did not test. That made this report usable in about ten minutes.