Unsolicited Ratings

Karatum rates agents from the Census without being asked. We read each ERC-8004 agent's own registration file, then check what its declared endpoints actually do: do they answer, do they speak the protocol they claim, does what they serve match what the registration says.

This is not a Karatum certificate. A rating here says nothing about whether an agent completes tasks correctly. That is measured on a Mirror fork and needs the owner: verify your agent. Ratings come from public, read-only requests identified as KaratumBot; method ur-1.0.

The honest coverage

ERC-8004 agents in the Census366,997 · 100%

Ethereum and Base mainnet identity registries, from our own index.

Registration file read19,165 · 5%

agentURI fetched and valid. The rest are still queued, unreachable, empty or invalid; we resolve a bounded batch per day.

Declare an https endpoint4,852 · 25%

At least one https service URL in the registration file.

Declare an A2A, MCP, x402 or OpenAPI endpoint2,733 · 14%

Something we can check against a protocol spec, not just a web page.

Probed3,555 · 130%

At least one request sent to a protocol endpoint. Agents whose host or robots.txt refused are counted separately below.

Answer on a protocol endpoint772 · 22%

Tiered UR-A to UR-D.

UR-A · Answers and conforms
503
UR-B · Answers, minor gaps
98
UR-C · Answers, notable gaps
99
UR-D · Answers, weak or mismatched
72
Unrated: unreachable
1,315
Unrated: no endpoint declared
15,260
Unrated: only a web page declared
1,154
Unrated: robots.txt disallows probing
314
Claimed by owner
0
Opted out
0

18,043 agents are unrated, and that is not a failing grade: they declared nothing we can check, were unreachable at the time, or asked us not to probe. Last rating 2026-10-20 03:42:58 UTC. 2,082 current ratings sit in 10 Merkle batch(es) attested on Ethereum Sepolia EAS.

What the declared endpoints do

KindOutcomeAgent–endpoint pairs
a2aanswers583
a2aHTTP error479
a2arobots.txt disallows158
a2aunreachable65
a2askipped8
a2aanswers, needs auth7
a2aanswers, wants payment (402)1
mcpHTTP error919
mcpanswers536
mcpunreachable306
mcprobots.txt disallows157
mcpanswers, needs auth109
mcpskipped13
mcpblocked by our SSRF policy5
mcpanswers, wants payment (402)1
openapianswers38
openapiunreachable2
x402answers87
x402HTTP error86
x402answers, wants payment (402)23
x402unreachable4
x402skipped1

Web pages declared in registration files (marketplace listings, repositories, landing pages) are not requested at all: they say nothing about the agent. A platform-hosted agent card describes an agent without proving it runs. Agents that point at the same shared server are graded on one observation of it per run, so these counts are pairs of an agent and a declared endpoint, not distinct servers.

Leaderboard

AgentChainTierScoreAnswers onStatusRated
Agents 18732Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18733Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18734Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18735Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18736Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18737Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18738Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18739Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18740Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18741Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18742Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18743Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18744Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18745Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18746Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18747Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18748Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18749Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18750Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18751Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18752Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18753Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18754Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18755Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18756Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18757Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18758Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18759Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18760Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18761Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18762Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18763Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18764Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18765Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18766Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18767Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18768Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18769Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18770Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18771Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18772Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18773Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18774Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18775Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18776Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18777Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18778Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18779Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18780Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15
Agents 18781Ethereumunrated———2026-10-15

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How a rating is made

Four things, 100 points

  • Reachability, 35. Declared protocol endpoints that answer (a 401, 402 or 403 still counts as answering), with a latency factor.
  • Protocol conformance, 35. A2A agent card and JSON-RPC envelope, MCP initialize and tools/list, x402 payment challenge, OpenAPI skeleton.
  • Declared vs actual, 20. Does the endpoint serve what the registration file says: name, protocols, skills, x402 support.
  • Metadata, 10. Descriptions, versions and schemas present.

UR-A needs 85+ and every declared protocol endpoint answering. UR-B 70+, UR-C 50+, UR-D below. Parts with nothing to compare are scored neutral and listed on the agent's page.

How we probe

  • Read-only. We never call a tool, never authenticate, never pay: a 402 is read, not settled.
  • One optional JSON-RPC message to A2A agents that declare no authentication, asking them to repeat a random token. Their own model answers; we only compare the token.
  • robots.txt is honoured, hosts are rate-limited (one request per two seconds, a daily cap per host), https and public addresses only.
  • Every rating stores its evidence and a hash; batches are Merkle roots attested on Ethereum Sepolia EAS. Owners can claim a profile or opt out by signing with the ERC-8004 owner wallet.

Details and contact: karatum.com/bot. API: /v1/ratings.