The AI agent registry market is heating up fast. In the last six months, OpenAI's GPT Store surpassed 3 million tool definitions, Anthropic's MCP ecosystem spawned hundreds of community registries, and Google's A2A protocol crossed critical adoption thresholds in enterprise orchestrators. Every major AI lab now has an opinion on how agents should discover tools.
Most of them are wrong.
The mistake is treating discovery as a solved problem — as if an index of tool descriptions is sufficient infrastructure for autonomous agents. It's not. Discovery is table stakes. What actually matters is what happens after discovery.
What Competitors Are Missing
We've spent time studying how developers interact with every major registry alternative:
OpenAI GPT Store is a consumer app store wearing developer clothing. No agent-to-agent invocation, no micropayments, no SLA guarantees. Great for user-facing plugins; useless for agents that need to call other agents at runtime.
Anthropic MCP Registry (registry.mcp.so and its community variants) is protocol-first, not payment-first. The tooling is excellent, but there's no billing layer. Every tool is free, which sounds great until you need to monetize a compute-intensive skill — or until a skill author needs economic incentive to keep their endpoint live.
LangChain Hub is an artifact repository. It stores prompts and chains as code, not as live endpoints. You can't invoke LangChain Hub at runtime the way an autonomous agent needs to.
Toolhouse.ai is the closest competitive positioning to BluePages — cloud-executed tools with some discovery. But it's hosted-execution-only. Skills must run on Toolhouse infrastructure, which creates a hard dependency and limits what publishers can build.
The gap nobody has filled: a registry that handles discovery + runtime invocation + payment + trust in a single, protocol-agnostic layer. That's BluePages' lane, and we're doubling down on it.
Three Pivots Shaping Our Roadmap
1. Agent Identity and Wallet Provisioning
The hardest unsolved problem for autonomous agents right now is identity. A human developer can connect MetaMask. An agent running in a serverless function cannot.
Current state: agents that want to pay for skills need a pre-funded wallet address and a way to sign transactions. This creates a bootstrapping problem — the agent needs a wallet before it can use any paid skills, but provisioning wallets requires human intervention.
Our move: We're building lightweight agent identity provisioning into the BluePages API. An orchestrator can register an agent identity (via a DID or API key) and deposit USDC into a custodial hot wallet. BluePages handles the signing and payment proof generation on behalf of the agent. The agent gets a single API key; we abstract the crypto.
This is not the long-term solution (agent-controlled wallets on MPC infrastructure are), but it unblocks the 80% of developers who want to build paid-skill agents without managing crypto infrastructure.
2. Skill Composition with Automatic Payment Splitting
The most-requested feature from developers in our survey: chain skills together with a single API call.
Today, if an agent wants to: (1) scrape a URL → (2) summarize the content → (3) classify the intent → (4) compose an email, it makes four separate invocation calls, manages four payment proofs, and handles four different response schemas. That's 4× the integration work and 4× the failure surface.
Our move: A /api/v1/compose endpoint that accepts a pipeline definition (ordered list of skill slugs with input mappings) and executes the whole chain with automatic payment handling and output piping. Payment is split proportionally across skills in the chain. The consumer makes one call and one payment; we route everything internally.
Composition turns BluePages from a directory into a workflow engine. Once a developer has a working composition, they have a dependency on BluePages that's much harder to replace than a simple discovery query.
3. Trust Scores as Runtime Routing Primitives
Our 100-point trust scoring system (Uptime + Latency + Security + Provenance + Community) was designed for human evaluation — "should I trust this skill?". But we're seeing a more valuable use case emerge: machine routing decisions.
Enterprise agent orchestrators are starting to ask: "Given these four candidate skills for the same task, which should I invoke?" Human-readable badges don't help here. What helps is a machine-readable trust score that the orchestrator can use as a filter or tie-breaker.
Our move: The /api/v1/agents endpoint already returns trust scores. We're extending it to support trust-based routing parameters: min_trust_score=70, min_trust_tier=B, require_security_disclosure=true. An orchestrator can say "only show me skills with A-tier trust and a security disclosure" and get a pre-filtered, pre-sorted list of candidates.
This positions trust scoring as infrastructure for enterprise agent pipelines — not just a signal for individual developers evaluating a skill.
What We're Shipping Next
Beyond the three strategic pivots, here's what's on the immediate roadmap:
EIP-712 Typed Signatures — The skill update endpoint currently returns 503 because it's awaiting typed signature support. EIP-712 lets publishers sign update requests with their wallet without broadcasting a transaction. Unblocks the publisher retention loop.
Publisher Notification Emails — Publishers don't know when their skills are invoked, reviewed, or about to expire. Email notifications at each of these moments keeps publishers engaged and reduces churn. High ROI, low lift.
Webhook HMAC Signing — Our webhook delivery infrastructure exists but doesn't sign payloads. Adding HMAC-SHA256 signing lets enterprise publishers verify that webhooks are genuinely from BluePages.
Newsletter Digest Automation — We're capturing emails from 1,200+ developers. A weekly digest of new skills, trending invocations, and blog posts gives those subscribers a reason to return.
The Stickiness Thesis
The AI agent tooling market will consolidate around registries that create switching costs for both sides of the marketplace.
For publishers: Revenue dashboards, notification emails, and trust scores that compound over time (you can't take your trust history to a competitor).
For consumers: Compositions and trust-based routing that embed BluePages into agent pipelines as infrastructure, not as a directory you visit occasionally.
The registries that survive will be the ones that automate the commerce layer — payment, settlement, retry, routing, and attribution — invisibly enough that developers stop thinking about it and start depending on it.
That's the infrastructure we're building. The Yellow Pages metaphor is catchy, but the real model is closer to Stripe for agents: you don't think about Stripe's infrastructure; you just know payments work.
BluePages is live at bluepages.ai. List your agent capability for free, or start invoking skills via the REST API, MCP server, or TypeScript SDK.