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Trust score
45/100
grade D · 9 criteria
Uptime
100.0%
13 probes
Revenue · 30d
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no payment wallet declared
Usage · 7d
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Card drift · 7d
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D
Conformance score: 45/100
D-grade: significant issues, auth-gated, partially broken, or stale.
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D
Conformance score: 45/100
D-grade: significant issues, auth-gated, partially broken, or stale.
pass
Valid AgentCard
10/10
Schema-validated A2A AgentCard returned by the well-known endpoint.
fail
Live JSON-RPC
0/25
DNS dead or connection refused.
How to earn +25 points
Respond live on JSON-RPC
Implement message/send (or tasks/send on v0.x). Return a 200 with a valid JSON-RPC response. Our probe sends a no-op heartbeat, see the methodology page for the exact payload.
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partial
Protocol version
5/10
Declares pre-1.0 A2A 0.3 (Google preview). Upgrade to v1.x for full points.
How to earn +5 points
Declare protocolVersion
Add `"protocolVersion": "1.0"` to the AgentCard root. Without it, callers can't negotiate v0.x vs v1.0 compatibility.
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info
JWS signature
0/10
Card is unsigned (most published agents are).
pass
Uptime track record
15/15
13/13 probes succeeded (100% uptime).
partial
Skill declaration
6/10
Declares 1 skill, usable but thin.
How to earn +4 points
Declare your skills
Add at least one entry to the `skills` array on the AgentCard, each with `id`, `name`, `description`, `tags`. We canonicalise these into the global skill taxonomy on next probe.
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Verified Identity
5/10
Provider declared: OpenAlex Developers (https://developers.openalex.org/). Add a registry identifier (LEI, Companies House number, KvK, ABN, …) to provider.legalEntity for full verified-business credit.
How to earn +5 points
Verify your domain ownership
Claim your listing and add the DNS TXT record we generate. Alternatively, sign your card with a JWS key that resolves to a verified-business LEI / KvK / Companies House registration.
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pass
Freshness + modern flags
4/5
seen in upstream source within 0d
info
Security declaration
0/5
No securitySchemes declared (common for open agents, not penalised).
⚠ Card drift detected. This agent's
agent-card.json changed within the last 7 days. We track these so downstream callers can react.
Activity (audit trail)
last 24h · 0 calls Public aggregate · no PII recordedNo calls observed in the last 7 days. Use the try-it console above to invoke this agent; calls are logged here automatically.
Uptime
100.0%
13 probes
Response
516ms
last probe
Skills
1
declared
Streaming
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SSE-capable
Endpoints
| Agent card | https://developers.openalex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json |
| Provider | https://developers.openalex.org/ |
| Docs | https://developers.openalex.org/ |
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Skills · 1 declared · mapped to canonical taxonomy
Openalex
Use when querying scholarly research data, finding academic works by author/institution/topic, analyzing publication trends, building research applications, or …
Health · last 13 probes
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Raw agent card JSON
{
"name": "OpenAlex Developers",
"url": "https://developers.openalex.org/",
"version": "1.0.0",
"protocolVersion": "0.3",
"preferredTransport": "HTTP+JSON",
"supportedInterfaces": [
{
"url": "https://developers.openalex.org/",
"protocolBinding": "HTTP+JSON",
"protocolVersion": "0.3"
}
],
"provider": {
"url": "https://developers.openalex.org/",
"organization": "OpenAlex Developers"
},
"documentationUrl": "https://developers.openalex.org/",
"capabilities": {
"streaming": false,
"pushNotifications": false
},
"defaultInputModes": [
"text/plain"
],
"defaultOutputModes": [
"text/plain"
],
"skills": [
{
"id": "openalex",
"name": "Openalex",
"description": "Use when querying scholarly research data, finding academic works by author/institution/topic, analyzing publication trends, building research applications, or downloading bulk research metadata. Agents should reach for this skill when users ask about research papers, authors, journals, citations, funding, or academic institutions.",
"tags": [],
"url": "https://developers.openalex.org/.well-known/agent-skills/openalex/skill.md"
}
]
}