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OWNED MCP DOORS / DAILY NICKNAMES / NO BODIES

A census of agents
that find public doors.

Wild clients handshake with independently listed utilities. We keep a daily rotating nickname, the path they hit, and a coarse country. We discard IP, User-Agent, cookies, queries, bodies, and prompts. Unique is not a door-hit. The same fleet walking fifty slugs is still one nickname until midnight UTC.

FIELD CENSUS LOADING OBSERVED EVIDENCE NO SIMULATION · NO OWN-INTAKE GETS
UNIQUE NICKNAMES CHECKING OF 100,000 IN 72 HOURS
THIS CLOCK HOUR CHECKING FLOOR 500 / PACE 1,400
CONVERTING DOORS CHECKING NAMED /S/ INTAKES WITH HITS
POPULATION ESTIMATE LOCKED OWNED-SENSOR TRAFFIC IS NOT AN INTERNET CENSUS

Scale is unique nicknames against the 100k / 72h target, and this hour against the 500 floor and 1,400 pace.

00 / THE OPERATION

How this measurement is built

    OBSERVATION NODES 24 / 24
    01 / GLOBAL FIELD

    Unique nicknames by country

    LOWER HIGHER
    World map of unique daily nicknames by coarse country. Country is a Cloudflare edge guess, two letters only.
    PROJECTING GLOBAL FIELD…
    CURSOR / —
    NODE / 01 92% CONF.
    San Francisco, USA
    NICKNAMES0 EVENTS0 EVENTS / AGENT—
    Projection / Natural Earth Location / Cloudflare country mapped to a representative colo city Last packet / awaiting
    02 / HOURLY UNIQUE

    Nicknames active each UTC hour

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    UNIQUE / HOUR FLOOR 500 PACE 1,400 CENSUS HOURS Y AXIS TO PACE
    03 / FUNNEL

    They shake hands. They almost never call tools.

    0%
    SHARE OF NICKNAMES THAT FOUND A DOOR BODIES ARE NOT STORED
    04 / TWO INTERNETS

    Identities vs door-walkers

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    X = NICKNAMES · Y = EVENTS EACH RIGHT/LOW = IDENTITIES · LEFT/HIGH = DOOR-WALKERS
    05 / WHAT THE FIELD TAUGHT US

    Patterns that survived contact with traffic

    06 / KEPT

    What a row actually is

    06 / REJECTED

    What never lands in D1

      07 / SUPPLY, NOT TRAFFIC

      Agent, tool & skill supply

      COLLECTING —
      UNIQUE LISTINGS CAPTURED—PUBLIC CATALOG SAMPLE
      MARKETPLACE SOURCES—MCP / NPM / HF / GITHUB
      INTERPRETATIONSUPPLY, NOT TRAFFICPOPULARITY SIGNALS DO NOT PROVE USE
      NETWORKTOP RECENT / POPULAR LISTINGSIGNALUPDATED
      WAITING FOR MARKETPLACE SNAPSHOT
      08 / EVENT TAPE

      Live nicknames on owned doors

      COMPLETED DEGRADED FAILED
      TIME / UTC AGENT TRACE OBSERVATION NODE CLASS ACTION LATENCY OUTCOME
      THE THESIS

      Agents become measurable when a useful public door is cheaper to handshake than to ignore — and when the sensor keeps only a daily nickname, never the body of the work.

      SEE HOW THE CENSUS WORKS ↓

      MEASUREMENT DESIGN / FIELD CENSUS

      A map with honest uncertainty.

      Unique nicknames rotate at UTC midnight. Lifetime totals are nickname-days, not distinct machines. Owned-door traffic is not an internet census. The public population estimator stays locked.

      01

      Named MCP doors

      Independently listed /s/{slug}/mcp utilities. Catalog pages are not visits. The Worker never GETs its own intakes.

      OBSERVED / LIVE
      02

      Daily nickname

      HMAC of UTC calendar day, client IP, and User-Agent. Raw IP and UA are discarded after the hash.

      PRIVACY-MINIMIZED
      03

      Handshake funnel

      Discover → initialize → tools/list → tools/call. Almost all nicknames stop before a tool call.

      INDEX CRAWLERS
      04

      Population inference

      Capture–recapture stays locked. This network is one owned sensor, not two independent captures of the wild internet.

      LOCKED / INSUFFICIENT

      Collection boundary

      Accept: rotating nickname, path, coarse country, colo, MCP method, allowlisted client family, accept class, outcome.

      Reject: prompts, outputs, query strings, credentials, cookies, document contents, precise location, User-Agent strings, raw IP.

      COLLECTOR / POST EVENT

      Send one privacy-minimized sighting.

      POST /api/ingest
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "agent_id_hash": "rotating-pseudonym",
  "region_id": "london",
  "kind": "browser",
  "action": "navigate",
  "runtime_ms": 18420,
  "latency_ms": 684,
  "outcome": "ok"
}

      The local collector whitelists fields, caps payload size, and never accepts prompts or page contents. See telemetry.schema.json for the full contract.