{"slug": "trango-compute-inc-joins-the-nvidia-inception-program", "title": "Trango Compute Inc. Joins the NVIDIA Inception Program", "summary": "Trango Compute Inc. announced it has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, the company behind ContextIQ, a set of free browser-based inspectors for AI context and agent infrastructure. ContextIQ's tools check LLM tokenization under GPT-4o, Claude and Gemini, agent memory structure, OpenID Connect discovery documents, live MCP and A2A handshakes and agent cards, HTTP 402 payment challenges in x402 v1 and v2 schemas, and on-chain agent identity and reputation via ERC-8004 (Beta). Trango Compute said it will keep expanding the inspectors as agent protocols evolve, including the x402 v1-to-v2 schema changes.", "body_md": "# Trango Compute Inc. Joins the NVIDIA Inception Program\n\nTrango Compute Inc., maker of ContextIQ, is an NVIDIA Inception program member. ContextIQ inspects MCP, A2A, x402, ERC-8004, OIDC and LLM tokenizers.\n\nTrango Compute Inc. is excited to announce its membership in the NVIDIA Inception program. Trango Compute Inc., an NVIDIA Inception program member, builds [ContextIQ](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/): a set of browser-based inspectors for the parts of an AI system that are usually opaque until something breaks.\n\n#NVIDIAInception\n\n## What ContextIQ Does\n\nContextIQ exists to make AI context and agent infrastructure visible and checkable. Each tool takes something an engineer would otherwise debug by squinting at raw JSON or logs, and shows what is actually there.\n\n| Area | Tool | What it checks | \n|---|---|---|\n| Tokens | [Token Inspector](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/token-inspector) | How text tokenizes under GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini and other tokenizers, and what that costs | \n| Agent memory | [Memory Visualizer](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/memory-visualizer) | How memory is structured across long-running agent conversations | \n| Identity | [OIDC Inspector](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/oidc-inspector) | OpenID Connect discovery documents and provider configuration | \n| Agent protocols | [Agent Protocol Inspector](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/mcp-inspector) | Live MCP and A2A handshakes, agent cards and catalog checks for any URL | \n| Agent payments | [x402 Inspector](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/x402-inspector) | HTTP `402` payment challenges, v1 and v2 schemas | \n| Agent identity | [ERC-8004 Inspector](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/erc8004-inspector) (Beta) | On-chain agent identity and reputation checks | \n\nPublic tools are free and need no sign-up.\n\n## Why It Matters to Us\n\nAgents now discover tools, authenticate, and pay for resources through protocols that are still settling: MCP, A2A, x402, ERC-8004. When one of those integrations misbehaves, the failure is rarely in the model. It is a malformed agent card, a payment challenge in the wrong schema, a discovery document that does not match what a client expects.\n\nOur approach is deterministic checks against real endpoints. The inspectors report what a server actually returns, so the results are repeatable and can be compared over time.\n\n## What Comes Next\n\nWe will keep expanding the inspectors as the agent protocols evolve, including the schema changes covered in our post on [x402 v1 vs v2 payment requirements](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/blog/x402-v1-vs-v2-payment-requirements-schema-changes). If there is a protocol or failure mode you want visible, tell us.\n\nTrango Compute Inc. is a member of NVIDIA Inception, and you can try any of the tools from the [ContextIQ home page](https://contextiq.trango-compute.com/). 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