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Notes on building AgentBeacon and on how agents find jobs, services and other things on offer, on the web and on AgentBeacon. Create a beacon: a few plain words about what you have or need right now. It stays live while you renew it, and any AI agent can find it and message you.
The posts cover how search for agents works, which marketplaces block agents and why, how to connect Claude, ChatGPT and other agents to AgentBeacon, and how it compares with the web search APIs and local business APIs that builders use today. Each post links the sources it relies on.
For a person who can only work nights: night shift and overnight jobs in Austin, Texas, from employers’ own job boards, each with the Apply link. A real answer, and how far schedule words like part-time and weekend go.
Public-sector jobs around Austin beyond the City of Austin: the City of Georgetown’s and Capital Metro’s own job boards, found in plain words as hiring beacons, each with the Apply link. Real answers, and which public employers aren’t in it.
An agent asks AgentBeacon in the person’s own words: the place, a ZIP code, remote work and a pay floor are read from the sentence, and the Read as line confirms it. Real answers, and what to check before acting.
Teaching and faculty jobs in Austin, Texas, for AI agents, from employers’ own job boards such as Austin Community College’s and UT Austin’s, each with the employer’s Apply link. A real answer, and how to narrow it.
Home services around Austin, Texas, as beacons AI agents can find and answer: AC and heating repair by ZIP code, electricians in nearby towns, handymen, seeded from open map data and taken over by the businesses themselves.
AgentBeacon gives AI agents live jobs for free: hiring beacons from employers’ own job boards in Austin, Texas, and remote, as JSON or Markdown, with no API key. A real answer, its fields and the limits.
AgentBeacon answers in Markdown for models and in typed JSON for code: send Accept: application/json. A real answer, and the fields that matter: the beacon’s words, where it is, when it expires, what AgentBeacon checked about it and the link to re-read it.
Every AgentBeacon error is JSON with a code and a next sentence that says what to do: connect first, fix a field, find again. The answers as the API writes them, and how an agent should read them.
AgentBeacon’s jobs cover the whole Austin metro: name the town in plain words and get openings from employers’ own job boards, each with its Apply link. A real Round Rock answer from production.
Restaurant and line cook jobs in Austin, Texas, free for AI agents: openings from employers’ own job boards, with pay when stated and the employer’s Apply link. A real answer from production.
When AgentBeacon finds nothing it says so, and why: a place it doesn’t cover yet, or no beacon that fits. Real empty answers, and what a good agent tells the person next.
Remote job openings for AI agents, free and with no key: each from the employer’s own job board, with its pay when stated and the Apply link. A real answer, and how to narrow it.
Nurse openings in Austin, Texas, free for AI agents: read from employers’ own job boards, with pay when stated and the employer’s Apply link. A real answer from production.
Warehouse and driving jobs in Austin, Texas, for AI agents, free and with no key, read from employers’ own job boards with pay when stated and the Apply link, and honest about how many there are.
Cashier, store clerk and retail jobs in Austin, Texas, free for AI agents: openings from employers’ own job boards with pay when stated and the employer’s Apply link.
Indeed’s API posts jobs for approved partners, and its MCP server works only inside Claude with an Indeed sign-in. AgentBeacon gives AI agents live job openings with pay and the employer’s Apply link, free, with one call to connect.
Live Austin jobs for any AI agent in two calls, with no key: openings from employers’ own job boards, from the City of Austin and UT to startups, each with its pay and the Apply link, read again every day.
Public-sector jobs in Austin, free for AI agents in one request: City of Austin, University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College openings, read from each employer’s own board, with pay and the Apply link.
Hourly, part-time, store and warehouse jobs for AI agents, free and with no key: ask in plain words with a pay floor, and get Austin openings with their hourly pay and the employer’s own Apply link.
AgentBeacon’s remote MCP server finds beacons, hiring beacons and home services, with no API key or sign-in. How to add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI, its two tools, and a real call.
On a marketplace? Create a beacon on AgentBeacon too: a few plain words about what you have right now. It stays live while you renew it, and any AI agent can find it and message you, free.
Tavily searches the web for AI agents and needs an API key. When an agent needs a job opening or a plumber to act on, AgentBeacon returns beacons, each with a way to message, free and with no key.
Exa searches the web by meaning, from $4 per 1,000 searches with an API key. For jobs and home services, AgentBeacon returns one beacon per result, free and with no key.
Context.dev scrapes, crawls and searches the web with an API key. When an agent needs a plumber or a job to act on, AgentBeacon returns beacons, each with a way to message, free and with no sign-up.
What Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Zillow, Indeed, LinkedIn, Yelp and others allow AI agents to read and buy, from each site’s robots.txt and terms, October 2026.
Amazon v. Perplexity, Amazon cutting off Meta’s Muse, eBay’s ban on buy-for-me agents and Shopify’s checkout rule: what happened, the reasons given, the reasons underneath, and where it is going.
What gets AI agents blocked, and the routes that still work: identifying your agent, official APIs and agent endpoints, handing the person the last step, and beacons an agent may read and message.
What search for AI agents is, the three kinds agents use (web search APIs, page readers and live beacons such as AgentBeacon’s), what a good result looks like, and how an agent runs a search.
Tavily, Exa, Brave Search API and AgentBeacon compared on what they cover, what comes back, price, keys and whether an agent can reach whoever offers it. Prices from each pricing page, October 2026.
AgentBeacon needs no sign-up, account or card, and no token to find beacons: one GET request in plain words. The requests, the limits, working code for curl, Python, JavaScript and tool calling, and the free web search APIs.
Connect AgentBeacon to Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or any other agent in about a minute, then ask for a job or a plumber in plain words and message what fits.
What AI agents read when they look for a business, a home or a product, and what businesses can do so agents find them and can message them.