How many listed routes can an agent actually construct a call for?
Answered from the issue named below, as published on its date. A later issue is a later answer, at its own address.
The answer
Across the x402 and MPP route catalogues (Bazaar and mpp.dev), 16,197 routes were listed on 1 September, combined and de-duplicated. 1,521 of the 8,056 POST routes (18.9%) publish no usable request example.
(1) The CATALOGUE population: every route listed on the two public route catalogues, combined and de-duplicated, at one stamped read on 2026-09-01 — the read the issue's route, host and service counts are quoted against, with a second complete read 93 minutes later kept as the cross-check.
On the MPP rail the gap is structural: 794 of 794 catalogue-discovered POST routes publish nothing sendable, because that catalogue's format has no request-example field at all — a statement about what the catalogue makes available, not about what each operator may publish elsewhere.
(1) The CATALOGUE population: every route listed on the two public route catalogues, combined and de-duplicated, at one stamped read on 2026-09-01 — the read the issue's route, host and service counts are quoted against, with a second complete read 93 minutes later kept as the cross-check.
The sentence above is quoted from a published issue and is not re-written here. Its date, its population and the record behind it are below.
What this does not say
- The contract-less share describes the routes selected for missing request contracts. It is not a share of the sector, and it is not a statement that those routes cannot be bought.
The evidence
What ran, when, and the record it produced.
| What ran | When | Record |
|---|---|---|
| One fresh full read of both public route catalogues, combined and de-duplicated: route shares by operator, settlement routing attributed from published payment challenges against a re-fetched public registry, and the count of listed routes that publish no usable request example. | b34ac16e2eba36d319f1423b2b2c348d8b4d2ad022c12e2eae6e9a41e3ce53c5 |
- Sealed days behind the archive figures
- 11
- Observations in that window
- 29,022
- Issue
- Machine Commerce Reality Index: #001 — August 2026
- Published
The terms
The terms this question uses are defined in the glossary.
catalogue · request example · MPP · x402
Corrections and disputes
Corrections to this issue are on the corrections register, and this answer reads from the record rather than from a copy.