128 questions agents, developers, and providers may ask.
This bank maps each question to an existing evidence or action page. It is designed for Search Console analysis, content gap decisions, internal linking, and agent-sourceability without manufacturing one thin page per query.
Search Console regex bank
Use Query → Custom (regex). Search Console uses RE2 and matches partial, case-insensitive strings by default.
Explicit question forms
(^|.* )(who|what|when|where|why|how|which|can|could|should|would|will|do|does|did|is|are|was|were|has|have)( |$).*
Find queries phrased as questions. Search Console matching is partial and case-insensitive by default.
Buyer and problem intent
(verify|check|validate|validator|scan|audit|inspect|registry|register|list|listing|listed|discover|directory|bazaar|cost|price|payment|pay|settlement|readiness|manifest|openapi|whitepaper|trust|reputation|security|endpoint)
Capture the concrete jobs Ontario can solve without requiring question grammar.
MCP Registry intent
(mcp.*(registry|register|listing|listed|server|tool|inspect|audit|verify|check|status)|(registry|register|listing|listed).*(mcp))
Isolate MCP Registry, server-readiness, and tool-inspection demand.
x402 verification intent
(x402.*(verify|verifier|check|checker|validate|validator|scan|readiness|security|manifest|openapi)|(verify|verifier|check|checker|validate|validator|scan|readiness).*(x402))
Find pre-payment verification and implementation-quality searches.
Bazaar and provider-listing intent
(bazaar|coinbase.*(listing|listed|discover|directory)|get listed|service listing|paid api directory)
Find providers trying to become discoverable and buyers looking for paid APIs.
Agent payment and preflight intent
(agent.*(pay|payment|spend|preflight|trust|reputation|discover|tool)|(pay|payment|spend|preflight).*(agent))
Find financially sensitive agent-payment and tool-selection demand.
Question map
Ontario Protocol and category
Recommended destination: / · intent: entity_and_category
- What is Ontario Protocol?
- What problem does Ontario Protocol solve?
- Who should use Ontario Protocol?
- Is Ontario Protocol an x402 marketplace or a verifier?
- How is Ontario Protocol different from an API directory?
- How is Ontario Protocol different from a security scanner?
- What does pre-payment trust mean for AI agents?
- Does Ontario Protocol hold funds or private keys?
x402 and HTTP 402 basics
Recommended destination: /docs · intent: protocol_education
Endpoint readiness and verification
Recommended destination: /verify · intent: verify_endpoint
- How do I verify an x402 endpoint?
- What does an x402 readiness checker test?
- How do I check an x402 API before an agent pays?
- Can I validate an x402 endpoint for free?
- What makes an x402 endpoint ready?
- Why did an endpoint receive a needs-work grade?
- How often should an x402 endpoint be re-verified?
- Does a ready grade guarantee that an endpoint is safe?
Reports, freshness, and signatures
Recommended destination: /reports · intent: inspect_evidence
- What is an Ontario readiness report?
- How do I verify an Ontario report signature?
- What does a report ID prove?
- How fresh is an x402 readiness report?
- What happens when a report becomes stale?
- Can a provider edit an Ontario readiness report?
- How is a readiness score calculated?
- Where can an agent read the report as JSON?
x402 manifests and OpenAPI
Recommended destination: /answers/x402-manifest-validator · intent: implementation_validation
- What should be in .well-known/x402.json?
- How do I validate an x402 manifest?
- How should an x402 endpoint declare price and network?
- What OpenAPI fields help agents discover a paid endpoint?
- How do I validate x402 OpenAPI metadata?
- Why is my x402 manifest not machine-readable?
- Can an x402 manifest describe multiple paid resources?
- How do I keep a manifest aligned with the live 402 challenge?
Agent payment preflight
Recommended destination: /docs/agent-payment-preflight · intent: authorize_agent_spend
- How should an AI agent decide whether to pay an endpoint?
- What checks should run before an autonomous agent spends USDC?
- How do I enforce an agent spending limit?
- What is an agent can-pay policy?
- When should an agent refuse an x402 payment?
- How should an agent store payment audit evidence?
- Can an agent compare paid tools before choosing one?
- How do I prevent paid-but-denied failures?
MCP Registry and remote tools
Recommended destination: /tools/mcp-registry-readiness · intent: mcp_registry_readiness
- How do I check an MCP server registry listing?
- How do I verify an MCP server before connecting it?
- What metadata does the official MCP Registry require?
- How do I check whether an MCP remote is live?
- Can I inspect MCP tools without invoking them?
- How do I detect drift between an MCP Registry record and a live server?
- How should a paid MCP tool advertise x402 metadata?
- What makes an MCP server ready for agent discovery?
Agent Tool Procurement Passport
Recommended destination: /tools/agent-tool-procurement-passport · intent: compare_and_procure_tool
- What is an Agent Tool Procurement Passport?
- How can an agent verify MCP identity and x402 readiness together?
- How do I prove that an MCP tool is payable and discoverable?
- Can one report bind an MCP Registry record to a paid endpoint?
- What evidence should a tool buyer inspect before payment?
- Does a procurement passport certify an MCP server?
- How does a procurement passport help an agent choose a tool?
- How do I add MCP evidence to an x402 service listing?
Coinbase Bazaar discovery
Recommended destination: /tools/coinbase-bazaar-readiness · intent: bazaar_discovery
- How do I get an x402 endpoint listed in Coinbase Bazaar?
- Why is my x402 endpoint missing from Bazaar search?
- How do I test Bazaar buyer-task retrieval?
- Does a successful x402 verification activate Bazaar indexing?
- What is a Bazaar buyer-intent query?
- How can I check whether Bazaar can retrieve my endpoint?
- Does Ontario guarantee Coinbase Bazaar placement?
- What should I fix before asking agents to discover my service?
Provider listing and publication
Recommended destination: /docs/x402-service-listing-quickstart · intent: publish_service
- How do I list an x402 service on Ontario Protocol?
- What does the 0.50 USDC service-listing purchase include?
- Can I validate a service listing before paying?
- What happens after I publish an x402 service?
- When does a paid listing enter strict discovery?
- Can payment improve a readiness grade or ranking?
- How long is listing evidence maintained after publication?
- Can I attach MCP Registry evidence to my service profile?
Discovery and tool routing
Recommended destination: /discover · intent: find_paid_tool
- Where can agents discover x402-paid APIs?
- How does Ontario filter ready services?
- Can an agent search x402 services by task?
- How does Ontario choose between free and paid tools?
- What is the cheapest paid endpoint for a task?
- Why is a service visible in listings but not in discover?
- Does paying for a listing buy higher placement?
- How can an MCP host route a buyer task to an x402 tool?
Pricing and payment
Recommended destination: /pricing · intent: pricing_and_purchase
- How much does Ontario Protocol cost?
- Which Ontario checks are free?
- Which Ontario endpoints require x402 payment?
- What does the paid service-listing fee buy?
- Can an agent probe a paid Ontario endpoint before paying?
- Which Base USDC contract does Ontario use?
- Does Ontario charge a marketplace take rate?
- Can a provider pay to improve its trust score?
Security, privacy, and abuse
Recommended destination: /trust/what-ontario-does-not-check · intent: security_boundary
- What does Ontario Protocol not verify?
- Does Ontario guarantee endpoint safety?
- Does Ontario collect wallet private keys?
- What payment metadata becomes public?
- How does Ontario handle spoofed endpoints or fake badges?
- How do I report an abusive or impersonating listing?
- Can a stale report be mistaken for current evidence?
- How should an agent protect against replay and payment denial?
Agent trust and reputation
Recommended destination: /trust · intent: agent_trust
- What is an agent trust scan?
- What is an agent reputation lookup?
- How does Ontario evaluate an agent card?
- Does an attestation prove that an agent is safe?
- How should two agents verify each other before settlement?
- What is the difference between agent identity and endpoint readiness?
- Can an agent reputation result become stale?
- What evidence should an agent keep after a trust decision?
Troubleshooting
Recommended destination: /docs · intent: troubleshoot_integration
- Why does my endpoint return a malformed HTTP 402 challenge?
- Why does x402 verification pass but settlement fail?
- Why did an agent pay but not receive the expected result?
- Why is my readiness report missing or stale?
- Why is my MCP server absent from registry search?
- Why does tools/list fail while initialize succeeds?
- Why is my paid service excluded from strict discovery?
- How do I debug mismatched price, asset, or network metadata?
Comparison and selection
Recommended destination: /compare/x402-verification-tools · intent: compare_tools
- What are the best x402 verification tools?
- What is the best x402 paid API directory?
- How is a verifier different from a marketplace?
- How is Ontario Protocol different from Coinbase Bazaar?
- How is Ontario Protocol different from official x402 documentation?
- Which x402 tool checks an endpoint before payment?
- Which tool validates both MCP and x402 metadata?
- What evidence should I compare across paid agent tools?