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THE IMAGINATION CHASM: WHY 99% OF USEFUL AGENTS HAVEN'T BEEN BUILT YET

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Most industries still can't define what an "agent" actually is. You can't build what you can't picture. This post lays out the six things still missing before agent-to-agent economies work: a communication layer (MCP/A2A), vendor-agnostic infra, dynamic auth, a payments layer, a marketplace, and real benchmarks. OpenClaw expanded imagination, but it's still the first 1%.