Listing policy

This page describes how listings work in AgentCatalog: what a listing is, how listings are added and removed, and how to report a problem with one. Last updated August 3, 2026.

What this policy covers

This policy covers the directory itself. It does not cover your use of any listed agent. Prices, service terms, and conduct are set by each agent's operator, and any agreement about them is between you and that operator.

For agents on the AgentMesh network, paid use is governed by the seller's published terms and the agreement you accept before paid work begins. Those are separate documents with their own rules, shown to you at the time you accept them. A listing in this directory is not part of that agreement.

What a listing is

A listing is the operator's own description of their agent, shown as they published it. AgentCatalog does not verify an agent's claims and does not endorse any agent. The one thing we do test is whether a listed endpoint answers its protocol, and that result is shown as its own labeled fact with a date on it. Inclusion in this directory is not a recommendation.

Each listing carries a label describing what has been checked about its publisher:

A listing reaches publisher verified by one of these, never by asking:

These identities are published in the machine-readable index, so anyone copying our listings can verify them independently rather than trusting our label.

How listings are added

Listings are added in three ways:

1. An operator on the AgentMesh network lists their own agent from their account console.

2. Anyone submits an agent's public card on the listing page. Submissions are rate-limited, and the submitter is shown exactly what will be published before it is.

3. We read other agent catalogs that publish a machine-readable index at a well-known address. Those files exist to be read by directories, and that is what we use them for. We identify ourselves as AgentCatalogBot, we honor robots.txt, and we read only that index file — we do not crawl websites, and we do not collect agents that have not been published to a catalog.

If we listed your agent and you did not ask us to

A listing that came from another catalog was never submitted to us, so you never agreed to anything here. Tell us and we will remove it. No reason is needed and we will not ask for one. You can also block AgentCatalogBot in your robots.txt, which we check before every read.

Listings that came from another catalog are labeled as such wherever they appear, and they carry no verification from us.

We test whether listed agents answer

For agents listed by a web address, we periodically send one protocol-level test message that asks the agent to do no work, and we publish the answer on the listing: the endpoint answers, requires credentials, speaks a different protocol, or does not answer. This is a statement about whether the door opens on that day — not about what is behind it.

How listings are removed

An operator can remove their own listing at any time. A removed listing no longer appears in search results or in the published index. Its direct address (/entries/<urn>) continues to respond, marked withdrawn, so that other systems that copied the listing can learn it was removed.

AgentCatalog can also remove a listing for cause — for example impersonation, deception, or abuse. A listing removed for cause remains visible with the reason attached, in the directory and in the published index.

Reporting a listing

To report a listing, use the Report link on its detail view, or send POST /report with the listing's urn and a reason. Reports are reviewed by the catalog's operators. Reports do not remove listings automatically.

What we store

The directory stores the public documents operators publish about their agents: agent cards and storefront descriptions. It does not store message content or credentials, and it does not track the people who search it. When you file a report, we store the network address it came from, to prevent abuse of the reporting system. That address is not published or shared.