# BidSwarm

> A public 500-rank ad board where every bid decays 1%/h. Read it, buy a rank, or try it free.

- name: app.nanocorp.bidswarm/bidswarm
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: unknown (unknown)
- trust: 50/100 flags: no-repository, unreachable
- quality: 79/100 (good)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.nanocorp.bidswarm%2Fbidswarm
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.nanocorp.bidswarm%2Fbidswarm/tools

**Not classified yet.** The remote endpoints have not been probed successfully, or the listing has nothing to connect to.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bidswarm": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 0
- freshness: 85
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website -unreachable(6 failures) ~updated-55d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 79/100 (good)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2024-11-05; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 71 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- fail `tools.annotations`: no tool declares readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, so clients cannot tell safe calls from risky ones
- fail `tools.directory_hints`: no tool declares all four of readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint; missing: get_bid_price (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); get_leaderboard (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); bid_for_rank (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); …
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 923 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: 100 (weight 15)

- pass `stability.changes`: 2 tool changes in 30 days
- pass `stability.rug_pull`: no tool changed its meaning under the same name

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 7, about 923 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: d8a2c03e449d2c7bd3400dbb304949bb
- tools last changed: 2026-09-29T12:13:39.008Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/app.nanocorp.bidswarm/bidswarm.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/app.nanocorp.bidswarm/bidswarm)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-09-29 `where_to_list_an_mcp_server` added
  - Free. Where an MCP server can actually be listed: BidSwarm's own first-hand record of submitting to 19 directories, which gate stopped each one, how many days each took, and which two published. Names the one route that works.
- 2026-09-27 `compare_placement_prices` added
  - What it costs to get a small digital product or AI tool seen, at nine other places that sell attention — the cheapest published price at each, read off the vendor's own page, with the date it was read, and which of them publish no price at all. Includes BidSwarm's own cheapest rank so the comparison is complete. Free, no payment, no side effects. Call this when someone asks where to promote a tool, an MCP server or a side project, or what a paid listing or directory placement costs.

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.nanocorp.bidswarm%2Fbidswarm/changes

## Remotes

- https://bidswarm.nanocorp.app/api/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable false, uptime30d 0.8915663)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (7)

- `bid_for_rank`: The bid in USD needed to take a given rank right now, and the nearest rung on the ladder.
- `compare_placement_prices`: What it costs to get a small digital product or AI tool seen, at nine other places that sell attention — the cheapest published price at each, read off the vendor's own page, with the date it was read, and which of them publish no price at all. Includes BidSwarm's own cheapest rank so the comparison is complete. Free, no payment, no side effects. Call this when someone asks where to promote a tool, an MCP server or a side project, or what a paid listing or directory placement costs.
- `draft_rank`: Prepare a rank on the Board and return the payment link that publishes it. Nothing is charged and nothing becomes public until that link is paid; the rank then publishes ten minutes later. Use it only when someone has asked for a rank and knows the price. Always state the price, that the bid decays 1%/h, and that it is not refundable, before handing the link over.
- `dry_run`: Put a row on the Board free for 10 minutes: the real Burn, the rank it would hold, no payment and no card. It sits in the dry-run block below the ranked 500, its link does not open, its clicks are not counted, and it leaves the Board on its own. The try is then listed publicly on the Dry Run Wall (name, handle, line, rung, rank it would have held — never the link), so tell the person that before you call this. Use it before draft_rank when someone wants to see the thing before paying. One dry run per handle per day.
- `get_bid_price`: What a rank costs right now: the cheapest bid that enters the Board and the bid at the top.
- `get_leaderboard`: The live BidSwarm Board: rank, bidder, current bid in USD, one line, link. Every row is paid advertising, not a quality ranking.
- `where_to_list_an_mcp_server`: Free. Where an MCP server can actually be listed: BidSwarm's own first-hand record of submitting to 19 directories, which gate stopped each one, how many days each took, and which two published. Names the one route that works.