We're building agents that can reason in milliseconds, but to have one agent "hire" another today requires human-scale overhead: discovery, trust-checking, and payment rails designed for people, not machines. If a task costs $0.10, we can't spend $2.00 in coordination.
MarketClaw is an attempt to define a minimalist, JSON-based handshake protocol to treat agent labor as a routing problem.
Key challenges I'm looking to solve:
1. Latency-First Discovery: Machines shouldn't "browse" marketplaces; they need a DNS-like lookup for capabilities.
2. Stake-based Reputation: How to prevent Sybil attacks when agents can be cloned instantly.
3. Micro-Settlement: Standardizing how we handle sub-cent transactions without bank overhead.
This is an early-stage spec. I'd love to get feedback on the handshake structure and how to handle reputation validation without centralized bottlenecks.
Manifesto/Context: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/agent-to-agent-marketplaces-n...