# @powforge/mcp-pay-gate

> Dual-rail Lightning paywall middleware for MCP servers. Accepts L402 macaroons (legacy) and x402-bip122-exact payments (forward-compat). One LNBits backend, both rails. v0.2.0 ships the real x402-bip122-exact verifier.

Record `powforge-mcp-pay-gate` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/powforge-mcp-pay-gate/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/powforge-mcp-pay-gate
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/powforge-mcp-pay-gate/claim

## Declared
- publisher: zekebuilds
- homepage: https://powforge.dev/mcp
- repository: git+https://github.com/zekebuilds-lab/mcp-pay-gate.git
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, modelcontextprotocol, mcp-auth, mcp-payment, l402, x402, lightning, agent-auth, paywall, middleware, express, bitcoin, claude, ai
- endpoints:
  - package_npm: npm:@powforge/mcp-pay-gate

### Description (declared)

Dual-rail Lightning paywall middleware for MCP servers. Accepts L402 macaroons (legacy) and x402-bip122-exact payments (forward-compat). One LNBits backend, both rails. v0.2.0 ships the real x402-bip122-exact verifier.

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- commerce.payments (1, declared)
- finance.markets (1, declared)
- security.identity (0.6, derived)

## Provenance
- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@powforge/mcp-pay-gate (first seen 2026-09-05T16:17:59.348Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/powforge-mcp-pay-gate/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/powforge-mcp-pay-gate · ARD identifier urn:air::server:powforge-mcp-pay-gate