5 comments

  • abuiles 1 hour ago

    This is great! I’ve been exploring a similar idea with Shopify merchants https://lobsterstores.com/

    Each merchant has an MCP. I’m building a directory and creating a skill that lets clankers discover and interact with their MCPs. I receive a checkout link to securely complete the payment.

    I've been thinking what the "agent" side means for a merchant, building yet another chatbot is not really interesting. I'm talking with some merchants and trying to figure out the answer to that question.

    • abeh 2 hours ago

      This seems pretty great, especially if it could surface pricing that is usually obscured. Any plans to publish some results? edit: i think these are some examples: https://salespeak.ai/profiles/

      • Lucasoato 1 hour ago

        It’s definitely interesting, I already see a scenario in which vendors try optimizing their prompts for this kind of AI agents.

        • freeplay 2 hours ago

          From a technical standpoint, this is pretty cool. From a human standpoint, this feels so unbelievably dystopian.

          • bee_rider 2 hours ago

            If a human was being grilled like this by an LLM, I’d call that my dystopian. If companies have LLMs that address each other in a somewhat adversarial manner, that seems not so bad. They don’t have feelings to protect after all, so it is kind of nice if they can cut through each other’s bullshit.

            • thenewwazoo 1 hour ago

              Imagine if there were some kind of way to compress the interrogation down to known-valid aspects, avoiding the parts that are unnecessary for machines. You could have some kind of a programmatic interface...

              • bee_rider 44 minutes ago

                Yea let’s call it the Agent Prioritized Interrogation interface.

                Yeah, I take your point. It seems like the idea, though, is to work with services that are specifically trying to expose some kind of special LLM based interface. I dunno if that’s prominent or useful, I avoid that kind of thing.

          • skillflow_ai 3 hours ago

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