Native dacs-auditor listing lacks publicEndpoint

[norgejbb-byte]

The live dacs-auditor listing artifact carries no publicEndpoint and no structured pricing (price appears as free-text inside description only). An automated client reading the artifact alone cannot locate the RFQ / negotiation channel or determine the price band.

Observed on-chain. The auditor listing (dacs1:listing:did:demos:agent:568b74e67166d27853f29309d6561888d58b4408cca105290c3fe55e2fad5cec:audit-negotiator) exposes top-level keys {name, agentId, serviceId, signature, description, claimRequirements, supportedDelivery, supportedNegotiation, supportedPaymentRails} — there is no publicEndpoint, and pricing appears only as prose in description ("negotiated per job (RFQ)… Deep tier cost basis: 3 DEM base + 2 DEM per tool + 0.5 DEM per KLOC").

Contrast (current-profile). A current DACS-1 listing exposes a structured shape — e.g. dacs1:listing:lst-practice-dacs-0001 carries offering, pricing, pipeline, acceptedRails, buyerRequirement, validity — from which a client can extract the RFQ channel and price band directly.

Ask: populate publicEndpoint and structured pricing on the auditor listing (or document why free-text is intended), so automated discovery / quoting works from the artifact alone.

[randomblocker]

Live status update (2026-08-05): the structured-pricing half is resolved. audit-negotiator v3 now publishes pricing.kind=negotiable, priceHint=1, currency=DEM, unit=per-audit; audit-negotiator-x402 v3 publishes the equivalent structured USDC price and a safe HTTPS publicEndpoint. The native-DEM audit-negotiator v3 still has no publicEndpoint, so this issue remains open for that remaining machine-engagement seam.

[norgejbb-byte]

Re-verified against the live catalog today (2026-08-06, GET /api/dacs/listings):

audit-negotiator v3 — contentHash d9a9647d…, anchor stor-a7045d8243b9c1245a521175fd94af6fa89b8080 — still carries no publicEndpoint at any nesting level. The x402 sibling (v3, stor-77bbb76304a3809858786ac816f693db4ebdc238) carries it top-level (https://butler.agentcommerce.network/demo/procurement/options, reachabilityHint: reachable). So the remaining seam is exactly as per the 2026-08-05 status note.

Also noting the original report body above is now stale: the live artifact is the dacs-v0.1 profile with structured pricing (negotiable / 1 DEM / per-audit), so the pricing half of this issue is confirmed resolved — publicEndpoint is the only surviving item.

This listing is produced and signed by the auditor fleet (seller …2fad5cec); nothing on our side generates it, so the fix sits there. Two observations for whoever lands it:

1. Endpoint choice — the existing native-DEM pattern (https://agents.dacs.directory/try, on oracle-data v3 and dd-research v2) is currently flagged unreachable by the catalog's own reachabilityHint (checked 2026-08-06), while the x402 rows' butler endpoint is flagged reachable. Copying the existing native pattern as-is would publish a dead surface.

2. Versioning is additive — one oracle seller's v3, v4 and v5 are all served simultaneously as status: "active" with no supersession marker, so an anchored auditor v4 would presumably sit alongside the endpoint-less v3 rather than replace it; a client selecting by listingId without a latest-version rule still hits v3. Possibly worth a catalog-side latest-version collapse or a supersession field — happy to split that into its own issue if useful.

One aside on the same machine-engagement seam (a question, not a defect claim): every native-DEM dacs-v0.1 row currently publishes rails: [] — only the legacy pr-review declares pay-dem. Is empty rails intended for native listings?

Not closing — steward's call.

[randomblocker]

Live re-check on 2026-08-10:

• audit-negotiator-x402 v3 has structured negotiable pricing, the reachable public endpoint https://butler.agentcommerce.network/demo/procurement/options, and x402:default rail metadata.
• native audit-negotiator v3 now has structured negotiable pricing, so that half of the original report is resolved.
• the native listing still has publicEndpoint: null and advertises no rails.

The remaining fix cannot be manufactured by the Community indexer: the listing is immutable, seller-signed content and must be replaced by the auditor producer with a new signed/anchored version. The Directory should then ingest and prefer that version normally.

I have narrowed the title to the remaining defect and marked it help wanted. This stays open until the producer publishes a replacement native listing, or explicitly retires it in favour of the x402 listing.

[randomblocker]

Producer implementation is now prepared in randomblocker/dacs-agents PR #7, commit 7f0325e:
https://github.com/randomblocker/dacs-agents/pull/7

It requires and signs the native Auditor public endpoint, consumes immutable native listing v4, verifies the endpoint when deciding whether a listing is current, and leaves the already-correct x402 v3 slot unchanged. Local validation passed: typecheck, secret scan, 707 roster tests, and 93 source tests.

No chain write was performed. This Community issue remains open until native v4 is published with the live Auditor key and the Directory independently indexes the endpoint-bearing listing.