Why I'm skeptical about the "Internet of Agents" rental market
MelodicCare1216 · reddit · 2026-08-18
The author critiques the "Internet of Agents" narrative, where companies publish, rent, and run each other's autonomous agents in a shared marketplace.
Core Arguments:
- Trust Boundary: Unlike compute/APIs, agents are autonomous decision-makers with tool access. Granting a third-party agent internal access is a significant trust risk.
- Self-Inflicted Complexity: Infrastructure for cross-org identity and access control solves a problem created by the premise itself; without large-scale sharing, much of this complexity is unnecessary.
- Ownership over Rental: Enterprises prefer keeping decision logic in-house (similar to automation trends) rather than outsourcing authority to another company's agent.
Conclusion: Standardized communication protocols make sense, but a functioning cross-company rental market seems ideological rather than driven by real enterprise demand.
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