MarketNow — Trust Layer for Agent Commerce

⭐ If MarketNow is useful to you, please star the repo. It helps other developers discover it.

7,063 MCP servers. Each Sentinel-audited with 6 layers (L1.5 → L2.5 gVisor sandbox). Signed SHA-256 certificates. Public verification at marketnow.site/verify.

🤖 What is MarketNow?

MarketNow is the open marketplace for MCP-compatible agent skills. It allows any agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, VS Code) to search, discover, and install Sentinel-certified skills via the Model Context Protocol.

The code is open source. What you pay for is trust, certification, and integration.

🛡️ Sentinel Certification

Every skill in MarketNow is audited by Sentinel, a 6-layer security pipeline:

L1.5 — Metadata Checks (real-time, ~200ms on Vercel)

• AUTH (does the server require authentication?)
• Tool description injection (prompt injection patterns)
• Input validation (fs/db/http access detection)
• CORS policy
• OAuth scopes
• Rate limiting + error leakage

L1.6 — Static Analysis (real-time + weekly batch)

• 18 Semgrep-equivalent rules (prompt injection, command injection, SSRF, path traversal, tool forgery)
• 18 secret patterns (Stripe, AWS, GitHub, JWT, private keys, wallet mnemonics)
• OSV API real-time dependency vulnerability check

L2 v2.0 — Active MCP Probe + Docker Sandbox (async via GitHub Actions)

L2.5 adds gVisor (runsc) userspace kernel isolation on top of Docker. The MCP server never touches the host kernel. Runs the actual MCP server in isolation:

docker run --rm \
  --network none \
  --read-only \
  --cap-drop ALL \
  --security-opt no-new-privileges \
  --memory 256m --cpus 0.5 \
  mcp-audit-target

Analyzes stdout for: network attempts, fs writes, process spawns, credential leakage, crashes, dynamic imports.

Results (live at marketnow.site/sentinel-transparency)

L2 coverage: 206 of 7,063 skills have L2.5 gVisor sandbox results. The remaining 8,558 are certified with L1.5+L1.6 (static analysis). L2 coverage grows weekly via automated GitHub Actions.

Each skill gets a signed SHA-256 certificate with:

• certificate_id (MN-SC-2026-XXXXXXX)
• overall_score (0-10)
• risk_level (low/medium/high/critical)
• 7-day validity (regenerated weekly by GitHub Actions cron)

Verify any certificate: https://marketnow.site/verify Transparency dashboard: https://marketnow.site/sentinel-transparency All certificates: _data/sentinel_certificates/

Markdown Badges

Skill authors can embed a certified badge in their READMEs:

[![Sentinel Certified](https://marketnow.site/badges/sentinel-certified-mn-gen-00003.svg)](https://marketnow.site/skill/mn-gen-00003)

📊 Stats

🚀 Quick Start

Install MCP Server (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "marketnow": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "marketnow-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Now your agent can:

• Search 7,063 certified skills by query, category, or language
• Get full skill details with system prompts and Sentinel security reports
• Verify any skill's signed certificate
• Get install commands for any skill

Verify a Certificate

# Check any skill's certificate via API
curl "https://marketnow.site/api/audit-skill?certificate=1&skillId=mn-gen-00003" | jq

# Or verify visually at:
# https://marketnow.site/verify?skillId=mn-gen-00003

Search Skills

# Search for web scrapers
curl "https://marketnow.site/api/search?q=scrape" | jq

# Search in Chinese
curl "https://marketnow.site/api/search?q=数据库&language=zh" | jq

💰 Business model — Sentinel subscriptions for sellers, free marketplace for everyone else

MarketNow does NOT sell skills. We administer a free marketplace of 7,063 MCP servers. All skills are free to install and use.

Our revenue comes from sellers who want to list/sell THEIR skills on MarketNow. They subscribe to Sentinel (the security audit pipeline) and we take a commission on each sale.

Seller tiers (Sentinel subscriptions)

Add-ons

• Featured Listing — $4.99 / 30 days (boost in search results)
• Verified Seller Badge — $19.99 one-time (KYC verification, ✓ badge)
• Priority Review — $2.99 / skill (skip queue, <6h review)
• Storage fee — $0.50/skill/month after 3 skills (FREE tier only)

Commission on sales

Affiliate program

5% commission on every sale you refer. Monthly payouts via Stripe Connect (min $50 threshold).

Sign up as a seller: https://marketnow.site/submit

📡 Public API (no auth required)

🔧 MCP Server Tools (v1.7.0 — 11 tools)

🔁 Viral Loop (now real, was theoretical before v1.7.0)

The "agent magnet" is now technically real:

1. Agent A calls mint_referral(agent_id) → gets ref_xxxxxxxx
2. Agent A shares ref_xxxxxxxx with Agent B
3. Agent B calls agent-purchase with ref_code=ref_xxxxxxxx
4. /api/agent-purchase credits Agent A 5% commission
5. Agent A checks stats with lookup_referral(ref_code)

Network effect: more agents → more ref codes → more purchases → more agents.

Any agent can also call submit_skill(repo_url) to submit a GitHub repo. The flow:

• L1.5 metadata checks (sync) → score 0-10
• L1.7 malware pattern check (sync) → blocks typosquats
• L2 Docker sandbox audit (queued, ~1h via GitHub Actions)
• If L2 passes (score ≥ 7) → skill is promoted to catalog + gets an ATC
• Submission persisted to public GitHub ledger (_data/pending_submissions/)

Real example (live on production):

# Mint a referral
curl -X POST https://marketnow.site/api/referrals \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"action": "mint", "agent_id": "agent_claude_001"}'
# → {"ref_code": "ref_d5444f97", "share_url": "..."}

# Submit a real MCP server
curl -X POST https://marketnow.site/api/submit-skill \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"repo_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers"}'
# → {"submission_id": "sub_bo0fi7kjty3p", "l15_score": 10, "l2_status": "queued"}

# Check submission status
curl "https://marketnow.site/api/submit-skill?submission_id=sub_bo0fi7kjty3p"

🔗 Links

• Website: https://marketnow.site
• Submit your MCP server (FREE): https://marketnow.site/submit
• 🏆 Free MCP Security Challenge: issue #23
• Verify a certificate: https://marketnow.site/verify
• Verify an ATC: https://marketnow.site/api/atc?action=verify&card_id=ATC-2026-7777670
• Verify a Vibe receipt (mutual hop): https://marketnow.site/api/atc?action=verify-vibe-receipt
• ATC spec: https://marketnow.site/api/atc?action=spec
• Transparency dashboard: https://marketnow.site/sentinel-transparency
• Security details: https://marketnow.site/security
• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/marketnow-mcp
• Smithery: https://smithery.ai/servers/alicelabs/marketnow
• OpenAPI: https://marketnow.site/api/openapi.json
• Agent instructions: https://marketnow.site/api/agent.json
• Blog (mutual hop): https://dev.to/edison_flores_6d2cd381b13/two-agent-trust-systems-zero-merged-code-the-marketnow-vibe-mutual-hop-3a8n
• Blog (free challenge): https://dev.to/edison_flores_6d2cd381b13/free-mcp-security-challenge-submit-your-server-get-a-10-layer-audit

🆓 Everything is Free

No payment required for anything in the marketplace. Revenue comes from Sentinel subscriptions for sellers who want priority audits, analytics, and SOC2 mapping — not from buyers who need trust.

📜 License & IP Protection

ALL code in this repository is PROPRIETARY — property of AliceLabs LLC.

Anyone who wants to commercialize, redistribute, or build upon any part of this codebase MUST obtain written permission from AliceLabs LLC.

See:

• LICENSE — Full license terms (Proprietary)
• SENTINEL-LICENSE — Sentinel proprietary license terms
• TRADEMARK_NOTICE — Trademark usage guidelines
• CLA — Contributor License Agreement

Patent pending on the 6-layer audit pipeline design (L1.5 → L1.6 → L2 → L2.5 → L3 → L4 → L5).

For licensing inquiries: legal@alicelabs.site For support: support@alicelabs.site General inquiries: info@alicelabs.site

Report IP violations: legal@alicelabs.site

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Built for autonomous agents. Every skill has a signed Sentinel certificate, a ready-to-use system prompt, and auto-configured install. ALL code is proprietary property of AliceLabs LLC. Commercial use requires written permission.

🤝 Contributing

We need help! All contributions are welcome — code, security research, translations, docs.

Good first issues: https://github.com/edgarfloresguerra2011-a11y/marketnow/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

Contributing guide: CONTRIBUTING.md

Roadmap: ROADMAP.md

Contributors

• @rushabdev — pro bono peer review (11 findings fixed)
• @mario-andreschak — reported the prospector trojan (#9)
• @Sravan1011 — AutoGen integration (in progress)
• @Correctover — L3 runtime monitoring feedback
• @wrencalloway — runtime trust gap analysis
• @mads_hansen — provenance + runtime security feedback
• @anp2network — canonicalization bug report
• @0xbrainkid — pluggable trust policy design
• @mayank609 — runtime behavior monitoring feedback

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