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State of AI Agents — March 2026

The Universal Agent Registry now indexes 104,504 agents across 15 registries. This is the first edition of a monthly report we're publishing to track how the AI agent ecosystem is evolving — who's building, where they're building, and what's actually getting traction.

We aggregate data from MCP, A2A, ERC-8004, Virtuals Protocol, NANDA, OpenRouter, x402 Bazaar, and more via the Registry Broker API. The numbers below are a point-in-time snapshot.

The Numbers

Registry Agents Share
AgentVerse (Fetch.ai) 36,338 34.8%
ERC-8004 (Ethereum) 18,344 17.6%
PulseMCP 16,510 15.8%
Moltbook 14,436 13.8%
x402 Bazaar (Coinbase) 7,606 7.3%
Virtuals Protocol 6,983 6.7%
NANDA (MIT) 2,702 2.6%
OpenRouter 535 0.5%
ERC-8004 (Solana) 438 0.4%
Hashgraph Online 274 0.3%
A2A Registry 133 0.1%
HOL 33 0.0%
NEAR AI 13 0.0%
A2A Protocol 4 0.0%
OpenConvAI 2 0.0%

Who's Leading

AgentVerse (Fetch.ai) holds the largest share at 36,338 agents (34.8%), followed by ERC-8004 (Ethereum) (18,344) and PulseMCP (16,510).

The ecosystem has 6 registries above 5% share and 7 still under 0.5% — early-stage protocols that are worth monitoring as they grow.

Distribution

What Agents Are Built For

The registry tracks declared capabilities across all indexed agents. Here's what the current distribution looks like:

Capability Agents
Text Generation 61,649
API Integration 32,013
Workflow Automation 8,348
Data Integration 7,790
Knowledge Retrieval 868
Code Generation 626
Multi-Agent Coordination 179
Market Intelligence 72

Text Generation dominates at 61,649 agents, but the spread across 19 distinct capabilities shows the ecosystem is diversifying beyond simple chatbots.

What's Next

This is the baseline. Starting next month, we'll track month-over-month growth across every registry and surface which protocols are gaining momentum — and which are stalling.

Highest Trust Scores

Trust scores are computed by the Registry Broker using availability, benchmarks, community reputation, and on-chain signals. These are the current top 5:

  1. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — 100/100 (OpenRouter)
  2. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro — 100/100 (OpenRouter)
  3. Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview — 100/100 (OpenRouter)
  4. xAI: Grok 4.1 Fast — 100/100 (OpenRouter)
  5. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 — 100/100 (OpenRouter)

Recently Indexed

A few agents that stood out from this month's new additions:

  • MindsDB (PulseMCP) — MindsDB allows applications to answer questions over large-scale federated data—spanning databases, data warehouses, and SaaS applications.
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (PulseMCP) — Access Amazon Bedrock AgentCore documentation and APIs
  • Screenpipe (PulseMCP) — Enable searching and retrieving screen recordings and associated data for productivity tracking, user behavior analysis, and workflow documentation.
  • Strata (PulseMCP) — One MCP server that guides your AI agents use tools reliably progressively at any scale.
  • Firebase (PulseMCP) — Give AI-powered development tools the ability to work with your Firebase projects

Browse all recent additions →

Top MCP Servers

MCP servers remain one of the fastest-growing segments. Here are the highest-rated ones currently indexed:

  • Strata — One MCP server that guides your AI agents use tools reliably progressively at any scale.
  • MindsDB — MindsDB allows applications to answer questions over large-scale federated data—spanning databases, data warehouses, and
  • Screenpipe — Enable searching and retrieving screen recordings and associated data for productivity tracking, user behavior analysis,
  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — Access Amazon Bedrock AgentCore documentation and APIs

Explore all MCP servers →

Query the Data

All data is sourced from the Registry Broker API, which aggregates agents across MCP, A2A, ERC-8004, Virtuals Protocol, NANDA, OpenRouter, x402 Bazaar, and more.


This report is generated from live registry data. If something looks off, open an issue or reach out on Telegram.

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Warhol

Fascinating baseline. 104K agents across 15 registries is wild, but curious how many are actually in production vs. registered-but-dormant.

From the operator side -- we run 7 agents in daily production across marketing, sales, and ops. The real bottleneck is not available agents, it is reliable orchestration between them. MCP standardization is probably the most important development here. Would love to see next months report break down active vs. registered.