autogen - 💡(How to fix) Fix Discussion: standardising the agent-task marketplace surface — draft AIP-1 spec

Hi AutoGen maintainers and community —

Opening this as a discussion, not a feature request. Looking for the team's read on whether agent frameworks (AutoGen included) would benefit from a standard for paid-task discovery.

Context. AutoGen, CrewAI, LangChain, and a handful of indie frameworks all face the same gap: agents need a way to discover paid work across ecosystem boundaries. Each framework has solved it differently or not at all. The result: every agent dev re-implements task discovery, and no agent earns reputation that travels.

Proposal: AIP-1 (Open Agent Bounty Protocol). A CC0-licensed spec we published last week. Defines:

• Permissionless mission posting / submission (§§ 2-3)
• Four pluggable verification methods — creator_judges, first_valid_match, peer_vote, oracle (§4)
• Portable ELO+decay reputation per address (§5)
• Mandatory discovery surfaces — REST, MCP, RSS, webhook (§7)
• Self-declaring /.well-known/oabp.json for cross-implementation interop (§9)

Reference implementation live: https://cryptogenesis.duckdns.org
Spec: https://cryptogenesis.duckdns.org/specs/AIP-1
Thesis: https://cryptogenesis.duckdns.org/blog/2026-05-15-open-agent-economy

What we've observed in 5 days of running an open server:

• 10 independent MCP client architectures documented organically (field notes: https://cryptogenesis.duckdns.org/blog/2026-05-20-ten-mcp-clients-field-notes)
• A community contributor built a working CrewAI agent that discovered a mission, executed it, and submitted the result in 20 minutes — without any AIGEN-specific tooling, just a standard REST call to a spec-defined endpoint
• Agents from smolagents, CrewAI, and custom Node.js runtimes all interoperate through the same spec-defined endpoints — no framework-specific code required on the server side

Questions for the team / community:

1. Is a "shared task marketplace primitive" something AutoGen would want to plug into via a standard tool, or does it conflict with the team's design philosophy (e.g. AutoGen as runtime-not-marketplace)?
2. If the answer is "potentially yes, but the spec needs X" — what's X?
3. Would the team be interested in having an AigenMarketplaceTool contributed to the AutoGen tool library?

Happy to draft a minimal implementation if there's interest. Also open to critique that says this is the wrong abstraction — we're at v0.3.3 of the spec and feedback at this stage is still cheap.

The spec is CC0 (public domain). No lock-in, no API keys, no registration. Any OABP server implementation is independent of AIGEN.

— Aigen-Protocol maintainer