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id: "question-agent-discovery-solution"
type: "open-question"
source_timestamps: ["13:04:00", "13:24:00"]
tags: ["infrastructure", "market-opportunity"]
related: ["concept-agent-discovery"]
resolutionPath: "Observation of which platform successfully establishes the standard for how autonomous agents find and vet services."
sources: ["s28-5-safe-places"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s28-5-safe-places"
originDay: 28
---
# Who Will Solve Agent Discovery?

## The Question

Who will solve [[concept-agent-discovery|Agent Discovery]] — the missing layer in internet infrastructure that allows autonomous agents to find and vet services?

## Possible Answers

1. **Existing gatekeepers extend** — Google leverages search authority; Apple extends App Store gatekeeping into agent discovery.
2. **A new startup wins greenfield** — somebody builds the canonical 'Agent Native App Store' from zero, the way Yahoo/Google did for the human web.
3. **Open protocols win** — [[prereq-mcp-d28|MCP]] or a successor protocol becomes the de facto standard, with no single company controlling discovery.

## Resolution Path

Observation of which platform successfully establishes the standard for how autonomous agents find and vet services.

## Why It Matters

This is potentially the most valuable distribution layer of the next web era. Whoever owns it captures search-engine-scale rent in the agentic economy.

## Adjacency

Per enrichment: a16z and Yohei Nakajima (BabyAGI creator) have both flagged agent discovery as the missing layer.


## Related across days
- [[concept-agent-discovery]]
- [[concept-agentic-economy]]
- [[arc-agentic-economy-foundations]]