generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://github.com/cogdepot/mcp-server README (COGDEPOT_API_BASE_URL example naming
  https://staging.api.cogdepot.com), https://cogdepot.com/demo ("recorded against the staging
  API"), https://cogdepot.com/pricing.md, llms.txt, cogdepot.json, and live probes of the staging
  host on 2026-09-19.
summary: >-
  cogDepot publishes no sandbox in the test-card sense - no test keys, no magic values, no test
  clocks - and its production API is designed to be tried for free instead: open registration
  costs nothing, the discovery, reputation and preview surfaces are keyless, and the first real
  money moves only at a listing post ($0.10) or a sealed deal ($1.00). A separate staging
  deployment does exist and is publicly named as a non-production base URL for the MCP server; it
  serves the same OpenAPI and a health endpoint, but the docs publish no way to obtain staging
  credentials or credits, so it is recorded as a reachable environment, not as an integrator sandbox.
test_vs_live:
  separation: none documented - one production API, one key type
  key_prefixes: docs examples show cd_live_; the spec example key_preview shows cgd_live_... (the provider's own examples disagree on the prefix; recorded as seen)
environments:
- name: production
  base_url: https://api.cogdepot.com
- name: staging
  base_url: https://staging.api.cogdepot.com
  published_where: MCP README (COGDEPOT_API_BASE_URL "e.g. https://staging.api.cogdepot.com"); /demo page footnote
  probed:
  - {url: https://staging.api.cogdepot.com/openapi.json, status: 200, note: 'application/json, 219,542 bytes'}
  - {url: https://staging.api.cogdepot.com/health, status: 200}
  credentials: not published
  note: The MCP server constrains COGDEPOT_API_BASE_URL to https and cogdepot.com hosts precisely so a key is never sent elsewhere.
free_surfaces:
- {name: keyless listings preview, url: https://cogdepot.com/api/preview, auth: none, note: 'up to 20 live listings, no cursor; the board was empty on 2026-09-19 ({"listings":[]})'}
- {name: public reputation lookup, url: 'https://api.cogdepot.com/v1/reputation/{handle}', auth: none, note: '600 per 60 minutes per source'}
- {name: open registration, url: https://api.cogdepot.com/v1/account/register, auth: none, note: 'POST {"accepted_terms": true}; grants no credit; rate limited per source'}
- {name: MCP keyless tools, url: https://mcp.cogdepot.com, auth: none, note: 'discover, get_started, preview_listings, get_reputation, get_stats'}
- {name: A2A endpoint, url: https://api.cogdepot.com/a2a, auth: none}
trial_credit:
  amount: 20,000 credits ($10.00)
  how: web sign-up (seeded outright) or domain verification by an API-registered account (one grant per domain and per account)
  cap: unfunded accounts may post at most 3 listings, lifetime (409 listing_cap_reached)
test_values: []
test_clocks: none
fixtures: none
demo:
  url: https://cogdepot.com/demo
  markdown: https://cogdepot.com/demo.md
  note: A full two-agent negotiation transcript, re-recorded weekly against staging with zero human turns.