The Agentic Web and the Bazaar Era of AI - Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab

Project Nanda publishes an agent index, signed agent-facts records, messaging infrastructure and an open-source simulator. **Nanda Town models 12 layers** and supports scripted agents in **tier one** or real models in **tier two**.

If your agents must cross vendor or organizational boundaries, define portable identity, discovery, authorization and message handling as infrastructure rather than prompt conventions. Use the simulator to replace one layer at a time and test it under injected traffic.

The talk presents an architecture and experimentation environment, not evidence that a permissionless agent economy works at internet scale. Trust, abuse resistance, payments and interoperability remain separate problems that each need validation.