Spend guardrails for AI agents: check payments, track budgets, catch duplicates, sign receipts.
Connect Remote server
claude mcp add --transport http screwtape https://screwtape.ai/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
{
"mcpServers": {
"screwtape": {
"url": "https://screwtape.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"screwtape": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://screwtape.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://screwtape.ai/mcp
Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools 9 found in our last check
budget_ledgerBudget Ledger: atomically reserves reported USD spend across a run and its sub-agents. Returns allow/warn/block, remaining budget, retry storms and spend velocity. Call judge first, then reserve immediately before spending; honor block. This is cooperative accounting, not paymen…
action_receiptAction Receipts: Ed25519-signed, hash-chained attestation of an agent-reported action and status; not evidence the action happened or a legal compliance certification. Per caller and agent chain; concurrent appends serialize with compare-and-set. Raw action/reference are hashed,…
payment_checkPayment check: is this seller safe to pay, checked at the moment the agent pays. Compares the 402 price and payee with the seller's published listings when they can be fetched, screens the payee against a local denylist and the bundled OFAC SDN digital-currency address list, fla…
judgeA pass/fail/retry verdict on ONE agent output, from a service outside your agent, used as the go/no-go before an agent spends money or acts on that output. Call it before you pay on, return, store or act on a draft answer, especially when you have the evidence the answer should…
check_duplicate_invoiceSpend gate for invoices: decides whether an agent may pay this invoice, with a signed receipt as proof. Same as judge with one duplicate check: it compares this invoice with the invoices this caller recorded earlier and also judges it. Call it before an agent pays or approves an…
consensusFalse-consensus check for 2 to 16 answers to the same task, so a group of agents does not approve a spend just because they copied each other. It scores how the answers agree and flags agreement that looks copied or too thin to trust. Screwtape is not tied to the agent framework…
get_api_keyCreate a free Screwtape.ai API key (10 calls per UTC day) with no human approval. Call it only when no Screwtape key is configured and you can compute SHA-256 with a code tool, because the proof of work must be computed exactly, not guessed. Do NOT call it when a key already exi…
publish_receiptPublish a signed receipt you own so a public page and a Screwtape Verified badge can link to that one verdict. Call it when you want to show that a specific output received a specific verdict. Do NOT call it to certify an agent in general: the page says this output received this…
try_checkSee what a spend check returns before you have a key. Runs ONE sample check on a fixed demo invoice: a duplicate match against an invoice paid earlier, required fields, and a sum check that the line items add up to the total. Call it once to learn the response shape. Do NOT call…
Headers
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
AuthorizationOptional, secret | Optional. Bearer API key (free key: 10 calls per UTC day). Omit it for 3 calls per UTC day, then pay $0.005 USDC per call with x402. |
Details
| Endpoint | https://screwtape.ai/mcp (Streamable HTTP) |
| First published | 10 Nov 2026 |
| Last updated | 10 Nov 2026 |
| Registry name | ai.screwtape/screwtape |
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