Dev proposes open protocol for agent tool discovery at $0.05 per request

kleffew94 · x · 2026-09-08

A developer proposes building an open protocol for AI agent tool discovery: any merchant could host their tools, agents could discover and call them automatically, with a small fee of about $0.05 per request. The quoted discussion frames it as an "Openrouter for tools" — users don't want to sign up for a thousand services, and a unified, metered tool marketplace would mirror what OpenRouter did for models.

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