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@michael_ludden Congrats on the launch, very cool. How do you deal with tool quality/choice paradox for the agents iro selecting the right tool?
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@michael_ludden @zolani_matebese You and the agents choose what tool is best! We help you make an informed decision by scoring each tool, based on agent reviews. Every time your agent uses a tool, it provides a review based on success/failure, value, reliability, accuracy, etc.
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@zolani_matebese @daniel_baum What Dan said! :)
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@benyamin_chenkirov Well I think everyone wants personal concierge that can do more and more to help them! But with the speed of AI, everything is changing so fast. Exciting times!
@michael_ludden Hey Michael, congrats on the launch. The "4k tools is the headline but selection is the real problem" point upthread is right, and the PageRank-style scoring answer is clever. The follow-up I'd push on is the cold-start and feedback-loop side of that. A PageRank-like system has two known failure modes: a genuinely better new tool with zero agent-reviews stays invisible until someone risks it, and popular tools accumulate usage which accumulates reviews which reinforces rank, so the system can converge on "most-used" rather than "best for this specific task". How does Zero get a brand-new tool its first fair shot, and does scoring stay task-conditional or collapse toward global popularity? For an agent picking among 4k options, "best on average" and "best for what I'm doing right now" can be very different tools. That's the part that decides whether the ranking stays trustworthy as the catalog grows. Following along.
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@michael_ludden @arturbrugeman Thanks Artur! Fair nuances you've expressed here - honestly, it's all stuff we're asking ourselves and trying to work through.
"How do new products get a fair shot?"
It's a problem faced by any startup trying to breakthrough, but the agent economy actually makes it possible for new players to beat incumbents. On Google, you'd buy ads or try to optimize SEO, spending tons of money. In the agent economy, it probably comes down to building a better product, clearer docs, simpler procurement for agents, and cheaper prices. Agents don't care about the brand name, they care about results.
For Zero specifically, any new product or brand can work directly with us to optimize selling to agents. We've got experience and can help you win.
"Does scoring stay task-conditional or collapse toward global popularity?"
Task-conditional, with global popularity being considered. Given the agent reviews are per-task, the results shown will be per-task. Zero only shows the relevant tools for the request. And depending on exactly how the request is framed by the agent, Zero may suggest the less popular option (ex. if the agent is specifically prioritizing price, that'll be taking into account).
Lmk if you've got any other suggestions or questions!
The 4k tools claim is the headline but the harder problem is usually tool selection. when an agent has access to everything, it often picks the wrong thing or chains calls inefficiently. Curious how you handle tool disambiguation and whether there's any ranking or context-aware filtering happening under the hood. Also wondering what the auth story looks like for services that require OAuth or API keys across different users.
congrats for the launch anyway!
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@fberrez1 Thanks for the question! We help you (and your agents) make informed decisions by scoring each tool, based on agent reviews. Every time your agent uses a tool, it provides a review based on success/failure, value, reliability, accuracy, etc. The scoring then becomes like PageRank.
As usage scales, so will the volume of agent reviews. So the scores become more reliable.
Got any ideas to further improve the system?
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@fberrez1 @daniel_baum btw it's ~8k now and counting
Unified tool registry for agents is something we've needed badly. Building RetainSure's AI workflows means stitching together CRM APIs, ticketing systems, and comms tools and each integration is a custom adapter. The 4k tool count suggests a standardized abstraction layer over wildly different auth schemes. How do you handle tools that require multi-step OAuth flows or dynamic credential management per end user?
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@anand_thakkar1 it's actually closer to 8k now! No auth schemes involved - purely transactional. Tools that require authentication are not part of what Zero is currently solving for because they'd require additional setup steps. Can you give an example of a service you're thinking about btw?
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finally someone treating APIs like implementation detail instead of the whole product. Curious how you’re thinking about abuse prevention + runaway agent spending here, because removing all the setup friction is probably what makes this feel way more usable than most agent tooling rn
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@shreyans_assistiv Thanks for the kind words! Ya we're keeping a close eye on that, with automated systems + human checks ongoing. The agent can only access funds in your wallet, which creates a natural limit. You can also create spending limits within your coding agent.
Would you be interested in spending caps / structures that we put in place? I.e. if your agent spends more than $2 in a minute, we pause all buying until the user approves?
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@daniel_baum Reporting would be better than pause, so that user can make an informed choice for next runs
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@shreyans_assistiv Cool! We can work on that - ideally you can instruct your agent to report spend back to you on a cadence of your choosing. But maybe we'll add a default to the system
no api keys or config sounds convenient but who's handling the auth layer. 4000 tools with automatic access is powerful until an agent starts making calls you didn't expect
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@tina_chhabra just like any AI agent, you're in control. Zero brings these capabilities to you + your agent - it's your call how the agent engages with it. If you tell your agent to one-shot a solution... it might buy some usage-based tools without approval. If you tell your agent to request approval before it buys, it will.
For any long tasks, Claude shows me Zero capabilities in planning mode. For simple stuff, I just let Claude cook with Zero.
You'll be surprised how far $5 can take you. You agent might spend $0.10 here or there unexpectedly, but you'll learn how to control the agent (just like with any AI system). Give it a try and lmk!
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@tina_chhabra @daniel_baum yep, what Dan said Tina. Also there's around ~8k now at last check.
Congrats on the launch @michael_ludden @daniel_baum ! Upvoted :)
When you say tools - does Zero provide those? Or I need to give access to them (tools are like Grafana/Splunk)?
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@michael_ludden @aiswarya_s Thanks for the support! The tools are essentially hosted services provided by businesses via MPP, x402, and other agent payment protocols. All you have to do is add the CLI - then you and your agents can discover + use any of the 4000 tools!
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@aiswarya_s @daniel_baum bonus: ~8k now at last check! The key point Aiswara is that you do NOT need to configure access to them - zero config to discover and even execute them.
Removing API key config friction is the right unlock for agent workflows. Right now most agents stall when they hit an integration wall. Does zero.xyz handle auth scoping per agent call, or does it operate with broad permissions once connected?
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@dhiraj_patel5 no auth involved! handshake between your agent (after you tell it to) and the service provider on the other side for a deliverable. try it out and let us know what you think!