sigil_verify_ads_txt
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Confirms whether an SSP/exchange is authorized to sell a publisher's
inventory according to that publisher's ads.txt. This is a cache lookup
against ads.txt files crawled daily across the top 10,000 publisher
domains — it does NOT fetch the publisher's ads.txt live, so it is fast
and adds no latency to a real-time bidding decision.
Use this tool when:
- You are an ad-buying agent and want to confirm, pre-bid, that a supply
path (publisher → exchange → seller_id) is legitimate.
- You are detecting domain spoofing or unauthorized resale in a bid stream.
- You want to check whether a seller is listed DIRECT or RESELLER.
Do NOT use this tool when:
- You want a full supply-path trust score — that endpoint is Sigil P31.
- You want surveillance tracker data for the domain — use
get_domain.
Inputs:
publisher_domain(body, required): Publisher domain, e.g.nytimes.com.
A www. prefix and scheme/path are stripped automatically.
exchange_domain(body, required): The exchange/SSP domain as it appears
in ads.txt, e.g. google.com, amazon-adsystem.com.
seller_id(body, required): The publisher's seller/account ID at that
exchange, e.g. pub-4177862836555934. Matched exactly.
seller_type(body, optional):DIRECTorRESELLER. When supplied it
is checked against the ads.txt entry; a mismatch is reported as a warning.
resolve_chain(body, optional): When true, a matched RESELLER entry is
cross-checked against the exchange's sellers.json (one authoritative hop).
Returns:
verified: true (entry found), false (confidently not listed), or null
(ads.txt could not be retrieved — indeterminate).
confidence:high|degraded|low|unknown.seller_entry: the matched ads.txt line (line number, raw text, parsed
fields) when verified is true; otherwise null.
ads_txt_parse_status,ads_txt_last_parsed,stale: provenance of the
cached crawl this answer is derived from.
reseller_chain: empty unlessresolve_chain: trueand the matched entry
is RESELLER — then it carries the sellers.json cross-check for the seller.
warnings: actionable flags, e.g.publisher_not_in_corpus,
publisher_has_no_ads_txt, seller_type_mismatch, ads_txt_cache_stale.
Cost:
- Counts as one request against the daily rate limit.
Latency:
- Typical: <50ms (single cache lookup, no outbound fetch). p99: <120ms.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| receipt | boolean | no | When true, attach a signed Receipt v1.0 committed to the transparency log. Additive — the response shape is otherwise unchanged, and a signing failure never costs you the verdict (ADR-014). |
| publisher_domain | string | yes | Publisher domain (www. prefix and scheme stripped) |
| exchange_domain | string | yes | Exchange/SSP domain as listed in ads.txt |
| seller_id | string | yes | Publisher's seller/account ID at the exchange |
| seller_type | string | no | Optional — checked against the ads.txt entry |
| resolve_chain | boolean | no | When true, a matched RESELLER entry is cross-checked against the exchange's sellers.json |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"receipt": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "When true, attach a signed Receipt v1.0 committed to the transparency log. Additive — the response shape is otherwise unchanged, and a signing failure never costs you the verdict (ADR-014)."
},
"publisher_domain": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Publisher domain (www. prefix and scheme stripped)",
"example": "nytimes.com"
},
"exchange_domain": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Exchange/SSP domain as listed in ads.txt",
"example": "amazon-adsystem.com"
},
"seller_id": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 128,
"description": "Publisher's seller/account ID at the exchange",
"example": "3030"
},
"seller_type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"DIRECT",
"RESELLER"
],
"description": "Optional — checked against the ads.txt entry"
},
"resolve_chain": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "When true, a matched RESELLER entry is cross-checked against the exchange's sellers.json"
}
},
"required": [
"publisher_domain",
"exchange_domain",
"seller_id"
]
}