# manylives.me MCP Tool Search

> manylives.me MCP Tool Search is a paid API for AI agents from manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Search thousands of public MCP servers by capability description and get ranked matching tools with their server endpoint and description.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://manylives.me/paid/tools/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-me-mcp-tool-search-8dd44728
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_VUT0RbdLK_STlV0Np-eoV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability manylives-me-mcp-tool-search-8dd44728
```

Example prompt: Search manylives.me for MCP tools that can extract text from PDFs — give me the top 5 results with their server endpoints and descriptions.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an AI agent needs to dynamically discover which MCP tool to use for a given task, rather than having tool endpoints hardcoded. It is especially useful when building meta-agents or orchestrators that need to route tasks to the right specialized MCP server at runtime. Prefer this over manual MCP registries or documentation searches when you need ranked, capability-matched results from a broad, live index of public servers.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameter 'q' returns a 400 error
- Query returns zero results if no matching tools are found in the index
- Payment of $0.01 USDC not provided or failed returns HTTP 402
- limit parameter exceeds 50 is capped or returns an error
- Server may return stale results if MCP servers haven't been re-crawled recently

## How this service works

Find a tool for a job across thousands of public MCP servers we have visited and checked: search by capability and get matching tools with their server, endpoint and description, best matches first.

## Output

A JSON object containing the original query string and an array of ranked results. Each result includes the tool name, a relevance score, the MCP server identifier, the endpoint URL, the time the server was last checked, and a human-readable description of the tool's capability — sorted best matches first.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "GET"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "pdf to text"
       ],
       "description": "what the tool should do, e.g. 'pdf to text' (required)"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "10"
       ],
       "description": "optional, max results (default 20, max 50)"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "query": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "results": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
         "tool": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "score": {
          "type": "number"
         },
         "server": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "endpoint": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "checked_at": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "description": {
          "type": "string"
         }
        }
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": "pdf to text",
  "results": [
   {
    "tool": "extract_pdf_text",
    "score": 3,
    "server": "…",
    "endpoint": "https://…/mcp",
    "checked_at": "…",
    "description": "…"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-me-mcp-tool-search-8dd44728/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/manylives.me/llms.txt)