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dns-aid MCP Server

Discover and publish AI agents via DNS using SVCB records (RFC 9460)

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Published as dns-aid on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 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 9.

Most discussed

SDK invoke() posts to the bare host, missing the MCP path resolution that core call_mcp_tool applies

Describe the bug

dns_aid.invoke(agent, ...) (the SDK AgentClient path) posts to the bare https://<target>:<port>/ without resolving the MCP endpoint path, so agents discovered from DNS (whose SVCB gives host:port but no path) fail. The core layer already has the resolver — resolve_mcp_endpoint() (core/invoke.py, /.well-known/agent.json then the /mcp convention fallback) — and call_mcp_tool / list_mcp_tools apply it, so the same agent works through those and fails through `i

Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 1 comment

A second publish at the same flat owner overwrites the first protocol's shared TXT metadata (capabilities/version)

Describe the bug

A second publish at the same flat owner overwrites the TXT metadata (capabilities/version) written by the first protocol's publish, silently dropping capabilities.

To Reproduce

dns-aid publish --name site --domain example.com --protocol mcp --endpoint mcp-host.example.net \
  --capability web-content --capability site-search
dns-aid publish --name site --domain example.com --protocol https --endpoint example.com \
  --bap webmcp --capability web-content
dig +s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/247) · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Add a convention for advertising a domain's own website (a "site" agent name and a "webmcp" bap token)

## Summary

DNS-AID can advertise arbitrary named agents, but has no vocabulary for the statement "this domain's **website itself** exposes an MCP/WebMCP interface". This proposes (1) a conventional agent name, `site`, for the domain's canonical web-content interface, and (2) a `bap` token, `webmcp`, marking a record whose target is an in-browser WebMCP surface ([`navigator.modelContext`](https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp)).

## Motivation

Cloudflare's [WebMCP developer preview](http

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/245) · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Trust Layer: DNS-AID + On-chain Agent Reputation & Escrow Integration

## Problem

DNS-AID's composition pattern (search → re-verify → invoke) is architecturally correct, but the re-verify step currently only does identity verification (JWS + DNSSEC). This proves **who** the agent is, not **whether it can be trusted**.

The architecture doc acknowledges this: "Path B's trust attestations are useful *signals*, not *guarantees*."

## Proposal

Add an optional `onchain_registry` field to the capability document that points to an ERC-standard on-chain agent registry. T

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/161) · 2026-05-28 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Global capability discovery across unknown domains

Summary
Add the ability to discover agents by capability without requiring prior knowledge of the target domain. Currently, capability-based discovery (e.g., _data-cleaner._a2a._agents.example.com) requires the caller to already know which domain to query, limiting discovery to known or pre-configured domains.

Motivation
In real-world cross-organization scenarios, an AI agent may need to find any agent on the internet that offers a specific capability (e.g., "data cleaning", "security log analy

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/110) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### SDK invoke() posts to the bare host, missing the MCP path resolution that core call_mcp_tool applies

## Describe the bug

`dns_aid.invoke(agent, ...)` (the SDK `AgentClient` path) posts to the bare `https://<target>:<port>/` without resolving the MCP endpoint path, so agents discovered from DNS (whose SVCB gives host:port but no path) fail. The core layer already has the resolver — `resolve_mcp_endpoint()` (`core/invoke.py`, `/.well-known/agent.json` then the `/mcp` convention fallback) — and `call_mcp_tool` / `list_mcp_tools` apply it, so the same agent works through those and fails through `i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/248) · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Add a convention for advertising a domain's own website (a "site" agent name and a "webmcp" bap token)

## Summary

DNS-AID can advertise arbitrary named agents, but has no vocabulary for the statement "this domain's **website itself** exposes an MCP/WebMCP interface". This proposes (1) a conventional agent name, `site`, for the domain's canonical web-content interface, and (2) a `bap` token, `webmcp`, marking a record whose target is an in-browser WebMCP surface ([`navigator.modelContext`](https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp)).

## Motivation

Cloudflare's [WebMCP developer preview](http

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/245) · 2026-08-10 · open · external user · 1 comment

### dns-aid index sync reports 'protocol=unknown' for all agents

## Description

`dns-aid index sync` resolves `protocol=unknown` for every agent on Akamai Edge DNS (and likely other real backends). It then writes the corrupted value back to the `_index._agents.<domain>` TXT record, overwriting any correctly-published index entry. For example, a record correctly written by `dns-aid publish` as `agents=chat:mcp` becomes `agents=chat:unknown` after a sync.

The root cause is in `_protocol_from_primary` (a nested function inside `sync_index`) at `src/dns_aid/cor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/227) · 2026-08-04 · open · external user · 0 comments

### dns-aid index sync reports 'protocol=unknown' for all agents

## Description

`dns-aid index sync` resolves `protocol=unknown` for every agent on Akamai Edge DNS (and likely other real backends). It then writes the corrupted value back to the `_index._agents.<domain>` TXT record, overwriting any correctly-published index entry. For example, a record correctly written by `dns-aid publish` as `agents=chat:mcp` becomes `agents=chat:unknown` after a sync.

The root cause is in `_protocol_from_primary` (a nested function inside `sync_index`) at `src/dns_aid/cor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dns-aid/dns-aid-core/issues/227) · 2026-08-04 · open · external user · 0 comments

[See all 12 reports Pod holds for dns-aid](/mcp/dns-aid/issues).

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