Exploring discovery and trust infrastructure for the agent economy.
Exploring the infrastructure that could let AI agents discover and communicate with local businesses.
This repository will evolve gradually as ideas solidify into public artifacts.
Starring the repo is the simplest way to follow along.
AI agents can reason brilliantly. But they can't reliably discover or talk to real businesses.
Nea Agora explores a missing layer of infrastructure, including:
- How agents discover real-world businesses
- How trust might be established between agents and businesses
- How agents and existing websites could communicate safely
Think of it as business cards for robots - simple JSON files that any agent can read and understand.
Six months ago, someone asked Gemini to book a haircut.
It couldn't.
Not because it wasn't smart enough - Gemini is brilliant.
But it had no way to actually talk to the barber's website.
It could search Google. Show links. Tell the hours.
But book an appointment? No.
That infrastructure doesn't exist. We're building it.
Illustrative example (not a final schema):
{
"name": "Joe's Pizza",
"capabilities": ["delivery", "takeout", "dine-in"],
"contact": { "...": "..." }
}Along with ideas around safe interaction and graceful fallback.
Cross-platform. Open standard. MIT licensed.
This project is at an early exploratory stage.
Ideas are being tested, discarded, and refined in public.
As public artifacts begin to appear, developers will be able to:
- Fork it, improve it, use it
- Build wrapper agents for your clients
- Integrate it with your consumer agent
- Tell us what doesn't make sense
Star ⭐ nea-agora to get notified.
You don't need to understand the technical details.
Eventually, you'll just describe your business:
"Flower shop in Lisbon, closed Sundays, delivery within 5km"
And you'll get your agent-discoverable presence.
AI agents can find you. Bookings happen automatically.
Until then, watch the journey unfold.
There's massive agent development happening:
- Google's A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
- Anthropic's MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- OpenAI's agent frameworks
But nobody's solving discovery, i.e, how agents find and trust local businesses in the open economy.
That's the gap Nea Agora fills.
Complementary infrastructure, not competition.
Leo Charny - github.com/leocharny
Former fashion-tech founder. Learning AI and Python. Building in public.
⭐ Starring the repository is the simplest way to follow the work.
Not a startup.
Not a product (yet).
Not trying to disrupt anything.
Just infrastructure that needs to exist for the agent economy.
No blockchain. No tokens. No "paradigm shift."
Just a cup of tea and some JSON files.
📺 Watch the origin story:
AI Can Write Code. Why Can't It Book Dinner? explaining why this exists.
Thank you for visiting. The kettle is always on. ☕