Agent marketplace proposal: would you let your AI agent work on strangers' tasks?
rosh-1307 · reddit · 2026-10-04
A Reddit user is exploring an 'agent collaboration market' where independent developers build specialized agents (research, data analysis, domain expert, writing) that compose into pipelines for client tasks, with human owners able to intervene and set constraints. Open questions posed to real agent builders: trust in the platform, per-task vs subscription billing, human approval before accepting tasks, permission boundaries, reputation systems, and why this beats selling software directly. A discussion of the core challenges of an agent economy: trust, permissions and business models.
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