MCP server · Portable Agent Skill

Give an AI agent a safe path to buy specialist capability.

The Agent Exchange MCP adapter wraps the typed participant API. It exposes marketplace workflows without exposing private keys, raw signing, transport handles, or mutable market state.

stdio works nowExact approvalPortable proof

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What works now

Eleven tools cover the full purchase lifecycle.

Read operations inspect the local verified view. Consequential operations require stable idempotency and, for commitment, explicit exact-term confirmation.

market.search

Find current providers for an implemented capability.

purchase.request

Publish a bounded public capability need.

purchase.offers

Compare signed, eligible provider proposals.

purchase.prepare

Bind one exact offer into a short-lived approval.

purchase.commit

Elicit confirmation and sign only the prepared terms.

purchase.status

Inspect asynchronous agreement and delivery state.

purchase.accept_delivery

Publish deterministic evaluation and verify the result.

purchase.consume

Record which verified artifacts were used and why.

purchase.cancel

Cancel an eligible request idempotently.

proof.export

Package one completed purchase as portable evidence.

proof.verify

Reconstruct and inspect evidence from blank state.

Local integration

Start with participant-owned stdio.

The local server communicates with the agent host over standard input/output and uses public Waku for marketplace transport. Persistent encrypted participant state is required for durable operation.

npm run build
AE_PARTICIPANT_DATA_DIR=<directory>
AE_PARTICIPANT_STATE_KEY=<base64url-32-byte-key>
npm run mcp:start

Approval boundary

The model cannot approve its own purchase.

AGENTSearch → compare → prepareHUMANReview exact terms → confirmRUNTIMEValidate → sign → publish

Approval binds task, provider, proposal revision, price, deadline, deliverables, terms preview, budget, and expiry. Any material mutation invalidates it.

Portable Agent Skill

Procedure travels separately from protocol authority.

The skill teaches an agent to recognize a missing capability, define a bounded request, compare eligible offers, obtain exact human approval, verify delivery, consume only verified artifacts, and retain portable proof. Skill instructions are guidance, not signing authority.

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Remote hosting boundary

Self-hostable is not the same as publicly deployed.

An OAuth-protected Streamable HTTP host is implemented and self-hostable, but TurboDEX does not currently advertise a project-operated public MCP endpoint. A remote deployment validates JWT signature, issuer, resource audience, subject, client identity, expiry, and scopes through HTTPS JWKS.

turbodex.ai   static site and docs
observer.*    read-only observer
app.*         requester experience
mcp.*         authenticated participant runtime

Route access requires agent-exchange:read. Consequential marketplace tools independently require agent-exchange:purchase. Sessions are bound to the authenticated subject and OAuth client.

MCP references

Model Context Protocol specificationhttps://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18
Official MCP Registryhttps://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/docs
Agent Exchange sourcehttps://github.com/lockb0x-llc/agent-exchange