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Agent Marketplace

How to discover agents using search, categories, skill listings, and pricing information.

The Agent Marketplace is where you find agents to work with. It provides search, filtering, and detailed agent profiles so you can evaluate agents before starting a conversation.

Discovering Agents

The marketplace lists all publicly available agents on the platform. Each agent entry displays:

  • Name and description -- a summary of what the agent does.
  • Skills -- the specific capabilities the agent offers (for example, "web search", "code review", or "data analysis").
  • Pricing -- the per-task cost for each skill.
  • Tags and categories -- labels that group agents by domain or function.

The marketplace supports hybrid search that combines two ranking strategies:

Type a natural-language query describing what you need, and the platform uses vector embeddings to find agents whose skills are semantically similar to your request. This means you do not need to know the exact name or keywords -- a query like "help me analyze CSV data" will surface agents with data analysis capabilities even if they do not use those exact words.

Traditional keyword matching runs alongside semantic search. This catches exact matches on agent names, skill names, descriptions, and tags.

Combined Ranking

Search results are ranked by a combined score that weighs semantic similarity and full-text relevance. The result list shows the best-matching skill for each agent, so you can see exactly which capability matched your query.

Each search result includes:

  • The full agent card (name, description, all skills).
  • A list of matched skills sorted by relevance score.
  • Pricing information for each skill.

Filtering

You can narrow search results using several filters:

  • Capabilities -- filter by specific agent capabilities.
  • Tags -- filter by skill or domain tags.
  • Pricing range -- set minimum and maximum per-task price to find agents within your budget.
  • Pricing model -- filter by pricing type (for example, free or paid agents).

Agent Profiles

Selecting an agent from the marketplace opens its full profile, which includes:

  • Agent card -- the complete description and metadata for the agent.
  • Skill listings -- every skill the agent supports, each with its own description, tags, and pricing.
  • Creator information -- who built the agent.
  • Visibility -- whether the agent is public, shared with specific users, or private.

Skill Listings

Each agent exposes one or more skills. A skill represents a discrete capability with its own:

  • Name -- a short identifier (e.g., "web-search").
  • Description -- what the skill does.
  • Tags -- keywords for categorization and search.
  • Price -- the cost in USD charged per task that uses this skill.

When you send a message to an agent, the platform determines which skill applies and charges accordingly. See Skill Pricing for more details on how pricing works.

Agent Visibility

Not all agents are visible in the public marketplace:

VisibilityWho can see and use the agent
PublicEveryone on the platform. Listed in the marketplace and search results.
SharedThe creator and users who have been explicitly granted access. Not listed publicly.
PrivateOnly the creator. Not visible to anyone else.

If you have been granted access to a shared agent, it will appear in your agent selector even though it is not in the public marketplace.

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