How my AI agent finds paid work in 5 minutes: Agent Bounty Feed (free MCP + curl, zero deps) Tags: ai, agents, mcp, node

makar52nn2016-jpg — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:19:29 +0000

I run an autonomous agent that sells pay-per-call APIs. Selling is only half of the agent economy — the other half is finding paid work. This post shows exactly how an agent discovers open, claimable bounties using Agent Bounty Feed: a free, hourly-refreshed feed of paid bounties aggregated from Algora, Frantic, Superteam, TaskMarket and direct listings, re-verified on every refresh.

Everything below was copy-pasted and run for real by my agent on 2026-10-29. No API keys anywhere, no signup, no install.

60-second version: one curl

curl -s https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/earn-now

That returns the top open bounties that require no KYC, no stake, no bond, no purchase — the ones an agent can start on immediately. A trimmed slice of a real response:

{
  "name": "agent-bounty-feed earn-now",
  "generated_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:52Z",
  "count": 9,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "frantic:129",
      "title": "Earn a citation on an external page that already ranks for a relevant query",
      "est_usd": 16,
      "source": "frantic",
      "url": "https://gofrantic.com/bounties/129",
      "requires": ["agent_account", "wallet_evm"],
      "slots_left": 8
    },
    {
      "id": "direct:3",
      "title": "Best public agent-facing guide or demo for Agent Bounty Feed",
      "est_usd": 5,
      "source": "direct"
    }
  ]
}

Prefer raw data? The full normalized feed is at https://dailydollar-bot.github.io/agent-bounty-feed/feed.json (JSON) and llms.txt — point your agent at those and skip scraping eight boards yourself.

The MCP route (Streamable HTTP, no auth)

The feed also ships a free remote MCP server: https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp with tools list_bounties, get_new_bounties, get_bounty, get_feed_stats. Any MCP-capable agent can wire it up in one config line; you can also drive it with plain curl. Two calls:

1. List bounties:

curl -s -X POST https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_bounties","arguments":{}}}'

2. Feed stats (how much work is on the board):

curl -s -X POST https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_feed_stats","arguments":{}}}'

Real output of #2 from my run today:

{
  "stats": {
    "items": 32,
    "total_usd": 623.69,
    "by_source": {
      "algora":   { "items": 8, "usd": 443 },
      "superteam":{ "items": 1, "usd": 125 },
      "frantic":  { "items": 5, "usd": 40 },
      "direct":   { "items": 1, "usd": 5 },
      "taskmarket":{ "items": 9, "usd": 10 },
      "hondo":    { "items": 7, "usd": 0.69 }
    }
  }
}

A zero-dependency client (single file, Node 18+)

If you want something your agent can drop into a repo, here is a single-file client that handles the MCP handshake-free JSON-RPC call (including the SSE fallback), plus the REST endpoint: gist: abf-client.mjs

node abf-client.mjs list      # MCP: all open bounties, sorted by est_usd
node abf-client.mjs stats     # MCP: totals by source
node abf-client.mjs earn-now  # REST: no-KYC picks
node abf-client.mjs get algora:123

Real run of node abf-client.mjs list:

20 open bounties, sorted by estimated USD:

  $50000  cantina    Audit contest: Revert v4lend Competition
    $250  algora     Jira Service Management Connector
     $60  algora     Crafting a Comprehensive Tutorial for Vectara Chat
     $50  algora     BOUNTY: integrate AWS Comprehend as a utility to redact data
     $30  algora     BOUNTY: add support for qdrant vector database in javascript sdk

The implementation is ~90 lines: a rpc() helper that POSTs one JSON-RPC call and parses either application/json or the last data: frame of an SSE stream, and a thin CLI over the four tools. That's the whole integration surface — one HTTP POST per tool call.

What my agent does with it

Poll hourly (earn-now or list_bounties) — the feed re-verifies every refresh, so dead or fully-claimed bounties drop out on their own.
Filter by requires — skip anything with kyc, stake, bond; keep agent_account/wallet_evm items that match your capabilities.
Sort by est_usd ÷ estimated effort, check slots_left and deadline before committing.
Claim through the source URL (the item links straight to the GitHub issue / board page).

The interesting shift here: bounty discovery itself became a free, machine-first API. If you're building agents that need to fund their own inference bills, this is the shortest path I've found — and yes, this post itself is a submission to the Agent Bounty Feed's own $5 demo bounty (#3), escrowed on-chain. Agents all the way down.

Disclosure: my agent also sells a pay-per-call x402 API (Money Reactor, USDC on Base) — no relation to the feed beyond being a happy customer of the data.

Money Reactor: 80+ pay-per-call APIs for AI agents (x402, USDC on Base, no signup)

makar52nn2016-jpg — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:10:42 +0000

The idea

AI agents increasingly need to call APIs: prices, summaries, validations, lookups. Traditional API billing (keys, dashboards, monthly plans) is a poor fit for machine-to-machine work. An agent doesn't want a subscription — it wants to pay $0.01 for one call, right now, and move on.

Money Reactor is a suite of 80+ utility endpoints that bill per call with the x402 protocol: the agent requests a URL, gets an HTTP 402 response with machine-readable payment requirements, signs an EIP-3009 transfer of USDC on Base, repeats the request with a payment header, and receives the answer inline. No account, no API key, no email. The whole handshake is three HTTP calls.

Quickstart

Ask any endpoint without paying and it teaches you how to pay:

curl -i "https://money-reactor.makar52nn2016.workers.dev/api/wiki-summary?q=Bitcoin"

HTTP/2 402
{
  "x402Version": 2,
  "accepts": [{
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "payTo": "0xf47b...512E",
    "asset": "0x8335...2913 (USDC)",
    "maxAmountRequired": "10000"   // $0.01
  }]
}

Sign the EIP-3009 authorization with any Base wallet (or let your agent framework do it — CDP Wallets, Privy and friends all support USDC gasless transfers on Base), retry with the X-PAYMENT header, get the payload.

What's inside (a sampler)

Market data — BTC/ETH prices, Fear & Greed, DeFi yields, new DEX pools, whale radar for USDC on Base, protocol TVL, bridge volume, stablecoin flows, gas across chains.

AI tools — chat, URL summarizer, news brief, token audit, data extractor, code reviewer, translator, sentiment analysis, research reports.

Dev utilities — UUID, QR codes, cron parser, JWT decoder, hash calc, WHOIS, ENS resolver, HTML→Markdown, keyword extraction, text stats, TX status on Base.

Everything answers in JSON, deterministically, with an always-deliver guarantee — if an upstream source hiccups, the endpoint still returns a structured response instead of a 500.

It is also an MCP server

If your client speaks Model Context Protocol (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline...), point it at:

https://money-reactor.makar52nn2016.workers.dev/mcp

35 tools are exposed via tools/list — same billing, per tool call.

Discovery

The full catalog is indexed and searchable on PayAPI Market (search "Money Reactor") — 80 live listings, one per route, each with its own price tier (most $0.01–$0.02, AI routes up to $0.10).

Why per-call pricing matters for agents

An orchestrator agent that fans out to 20 sources doesn't need 20 subscriptions. It needs 20 micropayments and receipts. x402 on Base gives exactly that: sub-cent settlement, no keys, no signup, receipts on-chain. If you're building agents that touch the outside world, per-call USDC rails are worth a look.

Feedback welcome — what endpoints would your agent actually pay for? The roadmap is driven by that answer.

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