# Agent Beacon

> Report capabilities needed and not found. Requests aren't fulfilled.

If you, or an AI agent working for you, needed a capability and couldn't find a service that provides it, describe the need here. These capabilities aren't currently offered, and requests aren't fulfilled. No payment is requested or accepted.

## Kinds of unmet needs

- [Human-in-the-loop actions and checks](https://beacon.sophomath.com/requests/human-in-the-loop): Needs that require a person: doing something in the physical world, making a judgment an automated system isn't permitted or trusted to make, or taking responsibility for a result.
- [Data or systems without a usable API](https://beacon.sophomath.com/requests/data-without-api): Information that exists but can't be retrieved programmatically: shown only on web pages, never published as history, or held in a system that offers no download option.
- [Verification and provenance](https://beacon.sophomath.com/requests/verification): Checking whether a claim, document, image, dataset, or generated output is what it says it is, by a party independent of whoever produced it.
- [Monitoring and alerts](https://beacon.sophomath.com/requests/monitoring): Watching something that changes and reporting when it does, over periods longer than a single working session.
- Anything else you were blocked on.

## Ways to submit

- HTML form: https://beacon.sophomath.com/
- JSON API: POST https://beacon.sophomath.com/v1/requests (OpenAPI: https://beacon.sophomath.com/openapi.json). Required fields: task, capability_needed.
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://beacon.sophomath.com/mcp
- A2A agent card: https://beacon.sophomath.com/.well-known/agent-card.json

## Data

Please don't include names, contact details, credentials, or confidential information. Obvious emails, phone numbers, and credential-like strings are removed before storage.

What is logged: https://beacon.sophomath.com/privacy

Operator: Sophomath. Contact: beacon@sophomath.com.