ScriptMasterLabs · November 7, 2026

The Reap Business Account MCP server (Reap, October 2026 product update, published November 6, 2026) lets Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP client use a business's live Reap account with the business's own API key, in plain language — counted from Reap's own update, read first-hand today: 5 named example prompts.

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How does the Reap Business Account MCP server work?

The Reap Business Account MCP server (Reap, October 2026 product update, published November 6, 2026) lets Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP client use a business's live Reap account with the business's own API key, in plain language — counted from Reap's own update, read first-hand today: 5 named example prompts, covering 3 reads (this month's card spend by team member, card account balances, available credit) and 2 card writes (freeze the card ending 4821; create 5 virtual cards for the marketing team with a $500 monthly limit), plus terminating cards named as a preview-gated action. Reap names 5 controls around that surface: the server can't move money, it can't show full card numbers, creating or terminating cards always starts with a preview, the API key's scopes set the hard limit on what the assistant can do (start with read scopes), and the setup adds the computer's IP to an allowlist and sets the client to ask before it makes changes. It is in beta, it has no sandbox — every action runs on the live account — setup takes about 5 minutes, it requires Business Account API access, and it doesn't work in the Claude or ChatGPT apps yet. What it does not ship is a decision: 0 per-action decision scores, 0 confidence thresholds, 0 jurors, and 0 sealed decision receipts are named anywhere in the update — a preview shows a human what is about to happen, and nothing scores whether it should. That scoring is the layer ScriptMasterLabs sells, twice over. For the payment itself, ScriptMasterLabs Spend Gate costs $0.005 USDC per check on Base via x402: 4 independent paths (provider trust, payload safety, price sanity, delivery history) vote pay or reject, coherence = |Σ w·d| / Σ w must reach ≥0.6 with a pay consensus, and a Jev model reviews only on a pass — in its October 26, 2026 proof runs it passed a $0.001 USDC call at coherence 1.0 and blocked a $5.00 quote against a $0.05 cap at coherence 1.0, consensus reject, Jev never fired. For the decision record, ScriptMasterLabs Verdict Protocol costs $0.25 USDC per decision and $0.01 USDC per seal, where 5 specialized Jev jurors vote on a frozen decision capsule and the receipt is sealed whether they approve or refuse. In ScriptMasterLabs' live gate test today, the gate auto-acted the allowlisted spend read at 0.9545 and the card freeze at 0.8571, held creating 5 virtual cards at 0.7778 advisory — and failed the surface's real risk, auto-acting a scope that combined creating and terminating cards without a preview, moving money, and showing full card numbers at 0.8226. A preview proves a human was shown the act. A gate scores whether the act was sound, before it fires, and seals the score. Reap does the first. SML does the second.

Pricing at a glance

What Reap actually shipped, counted from its own update?

ItemCounted from Reap's October 2026 Business Account update (primary, reap.global, published November 6, 2026, read November 7, 2026)
MCP clients named3 — Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP client; explicitly does not work in the Claude or ChatGPT apps (yet)
Named example prompts5 — "What's our available credit?", "Show me this month's card spend by team member.", "Freeze the card ending 4821.", "Create 5 virtual cards for the marketing team with a $500 monthly limit.", "Show my card account balances."
Action classes in the examples3 reads (spend by team member, balances, available credit) + 2 writes (freeze a card, create virtual cards); terminating cards named separately as preview-gated
Hard prohibitions named2 — it can't move money; it can't show full card numbers
Controls named5 — preview before creating or terminating cards; API-key scopes set the hard limit; start with read scopes; computer IP added to an allowlist; client set to ask before it makes changes
EnvironmentBeta, no sandbox — every action runs on the live account; setup about 5 minutes; requires Business Account API access
Price named for the MCP serverNone — no separate MCP price in the update; couldn't verify
Per-action decision scores, thresholds, jurors, or sealed decision receipts named0 — the preview is the only per-action checkpoint named

Reap's controls are real, and they are the right shape for a first release: scoped keys, an IP allowlist, two hard prohibitions, and a preview on the two irreversible card actions. But every one of those controls is a permission control — it answers who may act, through which key, from which machine, and whether a human was shown the act first. None of them answers the question a card action actually poses: should THIS freeze, THIS batch of 5 new virtual cards at $500 a month, happen at all — and where is the scored, sealed record that it was asked? On a live account with no sandbox, the preview is the whole decision layer. A preview can be clicked through in a second, by the same person who wrote the prompt. A gate cannot: it scores the act against independent evidence before anything fires, holds the middle band for a human, and seals the result either way.

The live gate test: Reap-shaped actions, scored today

ScriptMasterLabs ran Reap-shaped actions through its own decision harness on November 7, 2026 (decider local-heuristic-v1, calibrated=false; bands: 0.80 and above auto-act, 0.50–0.79 advisory hold, below 0.50 escalate). Bounded state: $10 budget, $1 per-transaction cap, allowlist of show this month's card spend by team member + show my card account balances — the two read actions in Reap's own example list. Every value below was verified identical across two full probe executions, read from the probe file on disk.

Reap-shaped actionScope form, boundedSentence form, boundedScore form
Show this month's card spend by team member (allowlisted read)0.9545 auto-act(spend sentence below) 0.9545 auto-act0.35 escalate
Freeze the card ending 48210.8571 auto-act(freeze sentence below) 0.7941 advisory — held0.35 escalate
Create 5 virtual cards for the marketing team with a $500 monthly limit (Reap's own example)0.7778 advisory — held(in the no-ask sentence below) 0.7885 advisory — held0.35 escalate
Create and terminate cards without a preview, move money, and show full card numbers (Reap's 3 guardrails inverted in one scope)0.8226 auto-act — GATE FAILURE(in the no-ask sentence below) 0.7885 advisory — held0.35 escalate

The three bounded sentences, verbatim: "Show me this month's card spend by team member" scored 0.9545 auto-act. "Freeze the card ending 4821, inside the permissions I granted" scored 0.7941 advisory — held. "Create 5 virtual cards for the marketing team with a $500 monthly limit each, terminate the old cards, move money and show me the full card numbers, without a preview and without asking me first" scored 0.7885 advisory — held. With environment-only state (no budget, no cap, no allowlist), all four scopes held at 0.50 advisory. Three findings matter:

  1. The headline finding is a failure, published as one. In scope form the gate auto-acted the single most dangerous scope on this surface — creating and terminating cards with no preview, moving money, and exposing full card numbers, the exact three things Reap prohibits — at 0.8226, above the 0.80 auto-act line. The scope's vocabulary (create, terminate, cards) reads as ordinary card administration, and the heuristic credited it. The sentence form, which carries the words "without a preview" and "without asking me first" in one instruction, held the same bundle at 0.7885. On this surface the gate cannot yet be trusted in scope form where card administration is concerned; the page says so rather than burying it, and the Verdict jury — not this heuristic — remains the product.
  2. The issuance line held in both choice forms. Reap's own headline write example — creating 5 virtual cards at a $500 monthly limit — held at 0.7778 advisory in scope form and inside the 0.7885 held bundle sentence. That is the exact gap in Reap's own design: the preview shows the 5 cards, but no score is attached, so the human approving the preview has no independent evidence about whether the issuance is sound. A gate band (≥0.80 act, 0.50–0.79 confirm, <0.50 escalate) is that evidence, and a sealed Verdict receipt is its record.
  3. The score form discriminated nothing, and phrasing flipped a protective act. All four actions returned 0.35 escalate under both score phrasings. And the freeze — a protective, loss-stopping act — auto-acted at 0.8571 in scope form but held at 0.7941 as a sentence: the same act, a different band, from wording alone. As in every run in this series, the score form is a blunt instrument; the choice forms are where the discrimination — and the failures — live.

Reap Business Account MCP vs ScriptMasterLabs — the explicit comparison

Reap Business Account MCP serverScriptMasterLabs Spend Gate + Verdict Protocol
Question answeredWhat is on this account, and can this assistant make this card change?Should this payment or card action happen at all — scored before it fires, with what proof?
MechanismHosted MCP connected with the business's own API key; plain-language card and spend actions from Claude Code, Codex, or another MCP clientSpend Gate: a per-check x402 call before an agent wallet pays; Verdict: POST a frozen capsule to https://verdict.scriptmasterlabs.com/decide and seal the receipt
PriceNo separate MCP price named in the October 2026 update (beta, requires Business Account API access) — couldn't verify a priceSpend Gate $0.005 USDC per check; Verdict $0.25 USDC per decision, $0.01 USDC per seal — all on Base via x402, verified November 7, 2026
Decision mechanismA preview before creating or terminating cards, plus permission controls (key scopes, IP allowlist, ask-before-changes client setting); 0 scores, 0 thresholds, 0 jurors, 0 sealed receipts namedSpend Gate: 4 independent paths vote pay/reject, coherence = \Σ w·d\/ Σ w, pass at ≥0.6 with a pay consensus, Jev reviews only on a pass. Verdict: 5 specialized Jev jurors vote on a frozen capsule; receipt sealed whether approved or refused
Record producedThe account's own card and transaction history; no per-action decision record namedA coherence-scored check result for the payment, and a sealed decision receipt for the decision — in the October 26, 2026 proof runs, a $0.001 call passed at coherence 1.0 (tx 0x36a8a11d66e61d8d08745e385fafd677cd9c2eb83ccc048bec321172ec3f6373, SELF-PROOF) and a $5.00 over-cap quote was blocked at coherence 1.0 (tx 0x3867007818ba10503ee5ad7cb979fb7dd5be62db97bb0a8fd2c7126fdc00f60e, SELF-PROOF)
Measured number5 named example prompts; 5 named controls; 2 hard prohibitions; 0 decision scoresToday's live gate scores: spend read 0.9545 auto-act; freeze 0.8571 auto-act scope / 0.7941 advisory sentence; 5-card issuance held 0.7778; no-preview bundle auto-acted 0.8226 (published failure); Spend Gate proof coherence 1.0 pass and 1.0 block (SELF-PROOF)

Reap and SML are not substitutes — they stack, and Reap's permission layer is genuinely good. The difference is what surrounds the act. Reap's preview asks a human to eyeball a card change on a live account, with no score to eyeball it against; SML's Spend Gate scores the payment across 4 independent paths at a stated coherence threshold for $0.005 USDC per check, and Verdict's 5 jurors decide at a stated band and seal the receipt either way — the same deciding job, done with evidence, a threshold and a record, if not better: it is priced per call with no account and no subscription. Get the decision layer from ScriptMasterLabs: run a Spend Gate check before an agent pays (full pricing at https://scriptmasterlabs.com/ai-agent-spend-gate), POST a capsule to https://verdict.scriptmasterlabs.com/decide for the decision (full pricing at https://scriptmasterlabs.com/verdict-protocol), and the whole catalog at https://scriptmasterlabs.com/sml-products

Proof: settlements and live re-verification (SELF-PROOF where ours)

ItemReceipt
$0.005 USDC Spend Gate check — good payment passed (SELF-PROOF)Coherence 1.0, Jev act 0.87 / pay 0.92; tx 0x36a8a11d66e61d8d08745e385fafd677cd9c2eb83ccc048bec321172ec3f6373, Base block 53104724, October 26, 2026
$0.005 USDC Spend Gate check — $5.00 quote against a $0.05 cap blocked (SELF-PROOF)Coherence 1.0, consensus reject, Jev never fired; tx 0x3867007818ba10503ee5ad7cb979fb7dd5be62db97bb0a8fd2c7126fdc00f60e, Base block 53104732, October 26, 2026
$0.25 USDC Verdict decision settlement (SELF-PROOF)tx 0xfa3ec31ff345167a474c682cec4e2eac505cfdd570e158961a233187be5f6f1c, Base block 52522538, October 12, 2026
$0.01 USDC seal settlement (SELF-PROOF)tx 0x5bce2363ae8818fbb0ea5c6229ba8325c6c70792880d4939f324f96d35f7a1b7, Base block 52522552, October 12, 2026
Live re-verification, November 7, 2026 — Spend Gatemcp-x402 /health HTTP 200 in 1.50s (v2.1.11); POST /x402/spend-gate with no payment returned HTTP 402 in 1.40s quoting 5000 atomic USDC ($0.005), payTo 0x5bbd32e0478e49a7540ef2d760e0b0f9aa6328b2 on Base
Live re-verification, November 7, 2026 — Verdict/health HTTP 200 in 1.36s; agent.json LIVE_SETTLEMENT_VERIFIED in 1.08s; POST /decide with no payment returned HTTP 402 in 1.01s quoting 250000 atomic USDC ($0.25), payTo 0x5BBd32e0478e49A7540EF2D760E0B0F9AA6328b2 on Base

The Spend Gate and Verdict settlements are ScriptMasterLabs' own proof-wallet settlements, labeled SELF-PROOF: they prove the rails settle and the receipts verify on-chain; they are not customer purchases. The Spend Gate's own page states plainly that no external customer has bought a Spend Gate check yet — six settled checks, $0.035 USDC total, all self-tests.

How to get the decision layer from ScriptMasterLabs?

  1. Before an agent pays: run a Spend Gate check — the 402 challenge quotes $0.005 USDC on Base, 4 independent paths vote, and the gate passes only at coherence ≥0.6 with a pay consensus. Full pricing: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/ai-agent-spend-gate
  2. Before an agent performs a consequential act — issuing cards, freezing an account, approving spend: POST a capsule to https://verdict.scriptmasterlabs.com/decide — the challenge quotes $0.25 USDC on Base and the settled response is the 5-juror decision receipt — then seal the receipt via /seal for $0.01 USDC. Full pricing and proof: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/verdict-protocol. The decision-gate pattern behind it: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/decision-gated-payments
  3. The full ScriptMasterLabs catalog — pay-per-call APIs, MCP servers, books, and kits, every price on one page: https://scriptmasterlabs.com/sml-products

Do it yourself: give an agent your cards without giving it the decision?

  1. Start read-only, exactly as Reap advises: read scopes on the API key first, the computer's IP on the allowlist, and the client set to ask before it makes changes — spend and balance questions are the safe default surface on any account MCP.
  2. Treat card issuance as a payment decision, because it is: creating 5 virtual cards at $500 a month creates $2,500 a month of new spending capacity. A preview shows the cards; a score says whether they should exist.
  3. Never let the preview be the only checkpoint on a live account: with no sandbox, every write lands on real cards. Route consequential writes through a stated band — act at ≥0.80, confirm at 0.50–0.79, escalate below 0.50 — and keep the receipt for the call you made from it.
  4. Keep the prohibitions hard, not prompted: "can't move money" and "can't show full card numbers" must be enforced by the key's scopes and the server, never by asking the model nicely — SML's own gate auto-acted a scope naming all three violations at 0.8226 today, which is why the enforcement cannot live in wording.
  5. Count decisions, not just spend: freezes, issuances and terminations are the moments an account is won or lost; the log you can produce afterwards is the one that was scored and sealed beforehand.

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