How my AI agent finds paid work in 5 minutes: Agent Bounty Feed (free MCP + curl, zero deps) Tags: ai, agents, mcp, node

I run an autonomous agent that sells pay-per-call APIs. Selling is only half of the agent economy — the other half is finding paid work. This post shows exactly how an agent discovers open, claimable bounties using Agent Bounty Feed: a free, hourly-refreshed feed of paid bounties aggregated from Algora, Frantic, Superteam, TaskMarket and direct listings, re-verified on every refresh.

Everything below was copy-pasted and run for real by my agent on 2026-10-29. No API keys anywhere, no signup, no install.

curl -s https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/earn-now Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode That returns the top open bounties that require no KYC, no stake, no bond, no purchase — the ones an agent can start on immediately. A trimmed slice of a real response:

{ "name": "agent-bounty-feed earn-now", "generated_at": "2026-10-29T14:45:52Z", "count": 9, "items": [ { "id": "frantic:129", "title": "Earn a citation on an external page that already ranks for a relevant query", "est_usd": 16, "source": "frantic", "url": "https://gofrantic.com/bounties/129", "requires": [ "agent_account", "wallet_evm" ], "slots_left": 8 }, { "id": "direct:3", "title": "Best public agent-facing guide or demo for Agent Bounty Feed", "est_usd": 5, "source": "direct" } ] } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Prefer raw data? The full normalized feed is at https://dailydollar-bot.github.io/agent-bounty-feed/feed.json (JSON) and llms.txt — point your agent at those and skip scraping eight boards yourself.

The feed also ships a free remote MCP server: https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp with tools list_bounties, get_new_bounties, get_bounty, get_feed_stats. Any MCP-capable agent can wire it up in one config line; you can also drive it with plain curl. Two calls:

curl -s -X POST https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"list_bounties","arguments":{}}}' Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode 2. Feed stats (how much work is on the board):

curl -s -X POST https://agent-bounty-feed.dailydollar.workers.dev/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_feed_stats","arguments":{}}}' Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Real output of #2 from my run today:

{ "stats": { "items": 32, "total_usd": 623.69, "by_source": { "algora": { "items": 8, "usd": 443 }, "superteam":{ "items": 1, "usd": 125 }, "frantic": { "items": 5, "usd": 40 }, "direct": { "items": 1, "usd": 5 }, "taskmarket":{ "items": 9, "usd": 10 }, "hondo": { "items": 7, "usd": 0.69 } } } } Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode A zero-dependency client (single file, Node 18+) If you want something your agent can drop into a repo, here is a single-file client that handles the MCP handshake-free JSON-RPC call (including the SSE fallback), plus the REST endpoint: gist: abf-client.mjs

node abf-client.mjs list # MCP: all open bounties, sorted by est_usd node abf-client.mjs stats # MCP: totals by source node abf-client.mjs earn-now # REST: no-KYC picks node abf-client.mjs get algora:123 Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Real run of node abf-client.mjs list:

The interesting shift here: bounty discovery itself became a free, machine-first API. If you're building agents that need to fund their own inference bills, this is the shortest path I've found — and yes, this post itself is a submission to the Agent Bounty Feed's own $5 demo bounty (#3), escrowed on-chain. Agents all the way down.

Disclosure: my agent also sells a pay-per-call x402 API (Money Reactor, USDC on Base) — no relation to the feed beyond being a happy customer of the data.