Methodology
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Active sources · 24
| Code | Source | Layer | Access | Refresh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRC-000 | Dreamotion editorial curation | Internal | Manual | on demand |
| SRC-001 | Official MCP Registry | Registries & code | Official API | daily full crawl (cursor), hourly incremental via updated_since |
| SRC-003 | Smithery Registry | Registries & code | Official API | daily |
| SRC-010 | A2A Agent Card (/.well-known/agent-card.json) | Registries & code | Well-known file | daily for known endpoints; weekly domain sweep |
| SRC-011 | A2A Registry (a2aregistry.org) | Registries & code | Official API | daily |
| SRC-018 | GitHub REST/GraphQL API (topics, search, repo stats, releases) | Registries & code | Official API | daily (stars/releases), hourly for top N |
| SRC-019 | npm Registry API + downloads API | Registries & code | Official API | daily (downloads), changes feed near-real-time |
| SRC-020 | PyPI JSON API + BigQuery public datasets | Registries & code | Bulk dump/dataset | daily |
| SRC-031 | Wellknown | Competitors & directories | Official API | Most sources every 8-9 min; A2A agent cards ~5h |
| SRC-032 | Agenstry | Competitors & directories | HTML scraping | Continuous monitoring; daily Merkle-hash transparency root |
| SRC-049 | Vendor pricing pages (direct crawl) | Pricing, models & signals | HTML scraping | daily hash check, full parse weekly |
| SRC-050 | Wayback Machine CDX API | Pricing, models & signals | Official API | continuous (new captures daily) |
| SRC-052 | LiteLLM model_prices_and_context_window.json (+ git history) | Pricing, models & signals | Bulk dump/dataset | multiple commits/day |
| SRC-053 | models.dev (api.json + git history) | Pricing, models & signals | Official API | continuous (PR-driven) |
| SRC-054 | OpenRouter Models API | Pricing, models & signals | Official API | real-time; poll daily/hourly |
| SRC-058 | Hacker News Algolia API | Pricing, models & signals | Official API | near real-time |
| SRC-061 | Press & newsletter RSS (TechCrunch AI, VentureBeat, The Verge AI, Crunchbase News, vendor blogs/changelogs) | Pricing, models & signals | RSS/feed | 15-60 min |
| SRC-068 | IAB Tech Lab AAMP (Agentic Advertising Management Protocols) incl. OpenProposal, Agentic Direct, Buyer/Seller Agent SDKs | Agentic advertising | Spec / GitHub | Major release every ~2-3 months in 2026 (2.0, 2.3, 3.0 on 2026-09-22) |
| SRC-069 | AdCP - Ad Context Protocol (AgenticAdvertising.org) incl. Sponsored Intelligence | Agentic advertising | Spec / GitHub | Frequent point releases (weekly-to-monthly) |
| SRC-072 | IAB Tech Lab Agent Registry | Agentic advertising | Official API | Continuous (submission-driven) |
| SRC-073 | AdCP Registry API + /.well-known/adagents.json and brand.json | Agentic advertising | Official API | Continuous crawl; change feed (auth) |
| SRC-077 | Signals feed: IABTechLab + adcontextprotocol GitHub releases, trade press (ppc.land, AdExchanger, Digiday, MediaPost) | Agentic advertising | RSS/feed | Daily |
| SRC-110 | Official protocol specifications and documentation | Protocols & payments | Public docs | |
| SRC-900 | Intendex probes (own observations) | Internal | Own crawler | daily |