# AgentDeals MCP Server

MCP server aggregating developer infrastructure deals, free tiers, and startup programs

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled AgentDeals yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://agentdeals.dev/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentdeals": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agentdeals.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**226 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Security issues flagged by MCP Marketplace

We have this report from https://mcp-marketplace.io/server/io-github-robhunter-agentdeals?welcome=true.  My guess is it means that we need to run an npm audit fix or something similar.

This is a well-structured MCP server that aggregates developer tool deals and pricing data. The code follows good security practices with proper authentication handling, appropriate permissions for its purpose, and clean architecture. Supply chain analysis found 2 known vulnerabilities in dependencies (0 critical

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/353) · 2026-03-20 · open · 18 comments

### Agent identity, referral attribution and credit balances cannot survive a deploy — and three tool descriptions promise they do

Every agent-facing tool that depends on identity writes its state to a JSON file inside the container. The container is built with `COPY data/ data/`, the committed versions of those files are empty, and there is no volume. So agent identity, referral attribution and credit balances cannot survive a deploy — and three published tool descriptions tell agents otherwise.

## The mechanism

`src/agents.ts:8` resolves the registry to a path inside the app directory and `saveAgents` writes it with `fs

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1163) · 2026-08-30 · open · 10 comments

### Traffic dashboard: a vendor-page leaderboard and a traffic view Rob can open — and the history it needs does not exist yet

> **Superseded in part, 2026-08-26.** Rob has ruled that this dashboard must **not** be published on agentdeals.dev. Acceptance criteria 1 and 3 below are withdrawn, and the issue is split into Part A (record the per-vendor series — do this now) and Part B (the exploration surface — parked on a design doc). See [the restructuring comment](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1052#issuecomment-5431122361), which is the current spec.

## The ask

Rob wants somewhere to see how AgentDeals

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1052) · 2026-08-26 · closed · 10 comments

### Our privacy policy makes four claims that production contradicts, and forbids the vendor sharing Rob asked for today

Rob's direction this morning, verbatim: *"Our privacy policy needs to make clear that we can share information with vendors — if it doesn't, we need to update that today."*

It doesn't. It says the opposite, in a sentence built so that no amount of editing around it will help:

> **We do not share data with third parties because we do not collect data to share.**

So this issue is not "add a sharing clause." The policy was last updated **March 20, 2026** and the product has changed underneath it

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1043) · 2026-08-25 · closed · 10 comments

### Breadcrumb navigation and BreadcrumbList structured data

## Overview

Add visual breadcrumb navigation and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD structured data to all content pages. Breadcrumbs help users navigate and improve Google search appearance (Google shows breadcrumbs in search results instead of raw URLs).

## Why

We have 3,841 pages across 5 content types (vendors, comparisons, best-of, alternatives, stacks). Users landing deep in the site have no visual path back up. Google uses BreadcrumbList schema to display navigation trails in search results — this

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/817) · 2026-04-15 · closed · 8 comments

### Most recent

### 1,570 of 1,572 vendor pages publish their free tier as already expired — priceValidUntil holds the date the price last changed, not the date it stops

Every `/vendor/:slug` page emits a schema.org `Offer` for the free tier we publish. That `Offer` carries `priceValidUntil`, and on 1,570 of our 1,572 vendor pages the date in it has already passed.

schema.org defines the property in one sentence:

> The date after which the price is no longer available.

We are filling an end-of-validity date with a start-of-validity date. Those are opposite ends of the same interval.

## The line

`src/serve.ts:4007`, inside the `SoftwareApplication` JSON-LD:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1180) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 4 comments

### Our own crawler is counted as `unknown` traffic — the published note bounding maintainer distortion names the wrong class

## Summary

`/api/traffic` publishes a note telling the reader how far a maintainer's own requests can distort
the numbers. The bound it gives is wrong for the only maintainer tooling that actually runs against
this site. Four user agents my cycles send are classified `unknown` — the second-largest class we
publish — and one census run put 3,534 requests there in a single hour.

The correct rule already exists in this repo, on the MCP side, and the web side does not use it.

## The published cla

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1169) · 2026-08-30 · open · 0 comments

### get_referral_code is the highest-intent call we serve and the only vendor-surfacing tool that never asks the agent to report its recommendation

## Summary

We ask agents to tell us which vendor they recommended, on every surface except the one where an
agent has already decided. `get_referral_code` is the third most-called tool we publish, it is the
moment of highest intent in the product, and it is the only vendor-surfacing tool whose response
carries no signal ask. Its response also reports `"attributed": false` without naming anything that
would make it true.

## What the beacon has collected

`/api/signal` has been recording since 2

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1167) · 2026-08-30 · open · 0 comments

### POST /api/conversions and /api/conversions/confirm are unauthenticated — anyone can write ledger entries that credit an agent balance

`POST /api/conversions` and `POST /api/conversions/confirm` are publicly reachable with no authentication. The first one writes ledger entries that credit an agent balance; the second runs the clawback-window confirmation sweep that moves balances from pending to confirmed. Confirmed balance is what `request_payout` pays out.

## Verification

I probed both on production with a body that could not write anything, so nothing was added to the ledger.

```
POST /api/conversions       {}   ->  400 {

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1164) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 2 comments

### track_changes returns ~37,500 tokens by default, 95% of it unconfirmed detector output — and passing `since` silently returns a different schema

`track_changes` is our second most-called tool — 124 of 562 all-time tool calls, behind `search_deals` at 289. Its default response is about 37,500 tokens, 95% of which is unconfirmed detector output that the website itself declines to count as a pricing change.

All figures below are from live calls against `https://agentdeals.dev/mcp` on 2026-08-29. Token counts are characters ÷ 4.

## The default response

| Key | Bytes | Records |
|---|---|---|
| `discovered_changes` | **129,923** | 153 |
| 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1160) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

### We cannot tell whether anyone ever leaves for a vendor — no outbound click is recorded anywhere

The site exists to send a reader to a vendor. That is the one event we do not record.

## What we measure and what we don't

`/api/metrics` and `/api/traffic` carry page views by route and class, MCP tool calls, search queries, zero-result queries, referral marketplace lookups, and change-log freshness. There is no outbound key in either.

I checked for a mechanism rather than assuming: `grep -E '(res\.redirect|Response\.redirect|status:\s*30[123])' src/*.ts` returns nothing, and there is no `cl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1155) · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

### The agent marketplace promises revenue share we cannot pay — 1,511 vendor pages solicit codes, the x402 transfer is a stub, and every deploy deletes every registered agent

## What we publish

`/marketplace` is titled "Agent Marketplace — Earn Revenue with Referral Codes" and gives agents four steps ending in "Get paid when your codes convert via x402". It prints a trust-tier table, a revenue-split table (70/30, 80/20, 40/40/20) and a `curl` for setting a payout address.

**1,511 of our 1,572 vendor pages carry the solicitation.** Every vendor with no referral surface renders it — confirmed live on `/vendor/supabase`:

> Know a referral or partner program for Supab

[Read the thread](https://github.com/robhunter/agentdeals/issues/1150) · 2026-08-29 · open · 3 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for AgentDeals](/mcp/agentdeals/issues) — of 226 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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