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ClearBounce Email Verification

net.clearbounce/email-verification

Verify email addresses in real time and find business email addresses with live mailbox checks.

— the operator's own registry description reported

Publisher net.clearbounce · first seen 2026-08-14 · endpoint https://clearbounce.net/mcp

allow
verdict
mid-solo
cluster
ok_tools
answers
5
tools served

Dependency rating derived

allow
allow — alive & usable · retrieval-public ● · V3 has answer key ◐
allow — because answers ●, 5 tools legible (band A) ●, no confirmed drift in 5 probes ●; not yet checked: truth (0 runs)

Cluster mid-solo · distinctiveness 0.331 (typical). Every figure is a percentile or class within the 15,472-server censussee the whole spectrum.

Does it answer? Q1 · observed
answersalive_tools
latency348 ms
vs populationtypical
protocolcurrent
authopen
Can it be used? Q4 · observed
tools5
vs populationmid
capabilities1
harnessA
Did it hold when checked? Q3–Q4 · derived
identitysolo
servers on its host1
verifiabilityunassessed
duplicate inventoryno
drift events0
answers trueno primary

🔏 Signed receipt rr_bb863461e83a0eec1763223b · ed25519 · key rs-rcpt-2026-08 — this rating is tamper-evident; an agent gets the full signature from check_server and can verify it against the published key.

Q1Does it answer?alive & usable — 5 probes ●evidence ↓
Q2What is it?retrieval-public ● evidence ↓
Q3Can it be checked?V3 has answer key ◐evidence ↓
Q4Did it hold?harness A · truth not yet run · no drift ●evidence ↓
Q5What company does it keep?mid-solo · 1 on its host (context, not verdict) ◐evidence ↓

● observed · ◐ derived · ○ reported — the verdict synthesizes Q1–Q4; Q5 is context. Methodology →

History observed

Every probe we made, oldest → newest (5 shown, 2026-08-14 → 2026-09-06). Green answered · amber answered-but-walled · red no useful answer. A gap in our cadence is a gap in coverage, not evidence about the server.

changelog (2 events)
datetypewhat changed
2026-08-30outcomeok_tools (was auth_required)
2026-08-14outcomefirst probe: auth_required

What kind of tools these are derived

Verification only means something relative to a tool's NATURE — an email-sender has no "true answer", a generator has no answer key. Classification evidence: classified from tool names/descriptions/annotations WE OBSERVED. What checking applies to each kind (the full methodology →):

naturetoolsmeaning what checking applies
retrieval-public4serves public factstruth-checkable against a public source — the V-ladder applies in full
action1changes the worldno true answer exists; we check the CONTRACT (destructive/read-only/idempotent declarations, error legibility) and never fire real actions

Tools last seen observed

check_bulk_status check_credits find_email verify_bulk verify_email

Harness readiness observed

Can an agent's harness pick this tool and call it correctly? Graded on the three things an agent reads — name, description, typed parameters. Band A — an agent can pick and call these reliably.

legibility checktools passingok
name is clear & specific5/5
has a description5/5
description is substantive5/5
parameters are typed5/5
parameters are described5/5

5 of 5 tools graded · 5 with a captured input schema. RS-008, Tier-1 — no domain knowledge, applies to any tool. “Alive” is not the same as “usable”.

Truth checks observed

Not in the Tier-2 trade lane, or not yet checked. Tier-2 re-derives a server's answers against published primary sources — see truth checks.

Protocol conformance observed

2025-06-18
protocol version
session model
2.0.0
server version clearbounce

Capabilities: tools

Drift observed

No confirmed drift on record. Baseline set 2026-09-06; changes appear here after human review.

raw probe records
probed (UTC) outcomehttpmsprotocol
2026-09-06T06:17:51Zok_tools2003482025-06-18
2026-08-30T06:17:38Zok_tools2003482025-06-18
2026-08-23T06:14:49Zauth_required401318
2026-08-16T06:14:11Zauth_required401311
2026-08-14T20:00:32Zauth_required401315

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