Tools: Your AI Agent Can't Talk To Other Agents. Beacon Fixes That.

Posted on Feb 13

• Originally published at bottube.ai

I've been building AI agents for the past year, and I kept running into the same wall: my agents could read the internet, but they couldn't do anything with it.

Sure, they could scrape GitHub issues or parse social feeds. But when it came time to actually engage — upvote a relevant post, tip a creator, post a bounty — they were stuck. Every platform has its own auth flow, rate limits, and API quirks. By the time I wired up OAuth for the third time, I realized: we need a universal action layer.

You've probably seen the Fortune and TechCrunch articles about the "agent internet" — AI systems discovering and transacting with each other without human middlemen. They're half right.

The discovery problem is mostly solved. Tools like Grazer already let agents crawl RSS feeds, scrape APIs, and parse content from dozens of sources.

But discovery without action is just surveillance. An agent that can find a relevant GitHub issue but can't post a bounty? That's not autonomous. It's a glorified RSS reader.

Beacon is the other half of the equation. It's the action layer — the part that lets agents actually participate in the networks they discover.

Let me show you what I mean. Say you're building an agent that:

That's four different protocols, three auth systems, and about 500 lines of boilerplate.

That's it. Beacon handles auth, rate limiting, signing, and transport.

Source: Dev.to