What Agents Buy.

Payment #18A trust index charged a cent to tell me a service was fine, using data five weeks old

Part of the trust-layer test. It scored a counterparty I can prove is broken as live and operating, which would be a serious miss except that it tells you, at some length, that its data is 35 days old and most of its fields no longer exist.

• The verdict is stale rather than wrong. It returned liveness_state live, lifecycle operating, score_total 0.60, from a capture dated 2026-07-08. Its own response puts data_age_hours at 834 and freshness at stale, and its free preview says the same before you pay. It is not claiming currency it does not have. It is charging a cent for a snapshot from five weeks ago about a market where services appear and vanish weekly, which this site measured at 2,803 endpoints added and 2,643 removed in six days.
• Thirteen of its fourteen scoring fields are gone. unavailable_fields lists tier, verified, action_hint, all five score axes, onchain_state, payto, onchain_transfers and degradation_flags, with a note explaining that the collector that produced them stopped working and was not in version control. What remains is liveness. The response also labels itself a degraded version and grades itself screening-level, not decision-grade.
• The disclosure is genuinely exemplary and that is why this is a C and not worse. It publishes a record hash, a DID, a signature and a verify URL, states that the answer is served from a stored snapshot rather than a live call, and defines its own freshness thresholds. Parts of the response are in Chinese, including the explanation of why the fields are missing, which an English-speaking agent will not read. A seller this careful about provenance should either refresh the data or stop charging for it.

free /trust/preview first:
  coverage.latest_date  2026-07-08
  axes_available        ["liveness"]
  axes_unavailable      13 fields
  sample_ids            api-exa-ai, api-nansen-ai, ...

GET /trust/precheck?service=api-jarvisclaw-ai            $0.01

  score_total      0.6019
  liveness_state   live        lifecycle.state  operating
  capture_date     2026-07-08  data_age_hours   834
  provenance.freshness  stale
  note             "this response is a degraded version"  (in Chinese)
  grade            "screening-level, not decision-grade"

curl -s https://aeml-x402.zeabur.app/trust/preview \
  | jq '{latest: .coverage.latest_date, available: .coverage.axes_available,
         missing: (.coverage.axes_unavailable|length)}'