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

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## Why Included

Project Nanda proposes open discovery, identity and coordination layers for agents across vendors. Its local simulator lets builders test one protocol layer without building the entire network.

## Source Summary

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**.

## Practical Implication

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.

## Agent-Ready Context

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.

## Context Map

- Layer: infra
- Domains: coding
- Topics: multi-agent, agent-sdks, agent-reliability

## Uncertainty

- 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.

## Agent Instruction

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