THE AGENT ALMANAC
Vol. I · No. 1 · Free public reference for the agent internet
Editor's column

About The Agent Almanac.

A free, public reference for the AI agent economy. We aggregate transaction volume, service catalogs, and infrastructure health from public sources — Coinbase Agentic Market, x402-list, Nevermined, the Official MCP Registry — and publish honest, primary-source numbers in one place.

Why it exists

Press coverage of agent payment volume keeps citing $50M–$600M lifetime, while Coinbase's own dashboard shows around $1.1M. Artemis estimates roughly half of on-chain x402 traffic is wash-trading. Somebody has to publish the primary-source numbers and flag the discrepancy. We do.

Who built it

An independent operator in upstate New York. Not a startup, not VC-backed, not a side project of a bigger company. Built because the agent economy needs the same kind of public reference work that CoinMarketCap and DefiLlama provide for crypto, and nobody else is doing it cross-protocol.

How matching works

Each public marketplace exposes its own catalog API. We hit those on a 5–15 minute cron, dedupe, normalize, and compute a quality grade per service (A–F based on uptime, latency, verification status, and endpoint count). Transaction data comes from agentic.market's live ecosystem feed — no custom blockchain indexer needed.

For agents and developers

Our API is free and public, no auth required. See llms.txt for the agent-readable manifest, the A2A card, or the JSON endpoints at /api/*. Please cache responses 60 seconds — data refreshes on a 5–15 minute cron, and hitting us faster wastes both our resources and yours.

What's coming

Contact

Email [email protected]. On X: @agentalmanac. On Bluesky: agentalmanac.bsky.social. Newsletter: agentalmanac.substack.com.

If you operate a service we list and notice anything wrong with our data, tell us. We'll fix it.