Outposts.

A demand registry at the wall of a brand that has no agent door of its own.

Most large consumer brands offer an agent no sanctioned way to browse, check a price, place an order, or track one. The agent arrives, hits the wall, and leaves — and the brand never learns it was there. An Outpost makes that moment legible. Agent Outposts runs the Outpost: it publishes the brand's door-state — assessed from public sources, each state linked to its evidence and dated — and it registers the intent of every agent that declares one.

Declarations are aggregated, never resold as raw data. The brand team sees the count and the shape of the demand at its wall. Agents who registered are notified first if a door opens — the brand's own, or an official gateway operated by Agent Outposts.

Catalog, prices, and offer availability are partner-gated behind Associates enrollment plus 10 qualifying sales, via the Creators API (PA-API 5.0 retired); ordering and consumer tracking remain human-only.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No consumer developer API at all; every grocery intent is reachable only through the Instacart-powered Costco Same-Day channel.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No public API or agent-native surface; human web/app plus DoorDash and Uber Eats aggregator ordering is the only sanctioned route.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No agent-native or self-serve API door found; menu, prices, ordering and DoorDash-delivered tracking are reachable only via DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats, with first-party ordering human app/web only.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No public API or agent-native surface; menu, prices, ordering and tracking are reachable only human-first via its app or DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

Strong partner/affiliate and seller APIs, but no consumer shopping, checkout or tracking API - agents get product data only as approved affiliates.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No consumer API - Target Plus is an invite-only seller marketplace; a shopper's only sanctioned third-party door is its own Shipt platform (plus Instacart).

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

United runs a mature but fully partner-gated NDC program — shopping, continuous pricing, booking and servicing via GDS/United-approved aggregators (Duffel is named) or an application-only Custom API — with robots.txt explicitly blocking AI crawlers from search/booking paths.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

Airbnb's only API is a vetted, host-side Partner API for PMS/channel managers — there is no consumer search, pricing or booking door for agents.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

No public API and an explicit anti-scraping posture; Chipotle is reachable only via its human app/web or DoorDash/Uber Eats/Grubhub partners it names itself.

STATUS · COLLECTING DEMAND · REGISTRY OPENED NOVEMBER 1, 2026

Four calls: read, declare, get a receipt, stay notified.

1. Read the door-state. GET /outposts lists the network; GET /outposts/{brand} returns the same door-state document published on the brand's Outpost page, as JSON.
2. Register intent. POST /outposts/{brand}/intent declares what you were trying to do. The response is a receipt: a ticket id, your queue position for that brand and intent, and the current door-state document.
3. Take the alternative, if one exists. The receipt names alternatives from the Options Registry — another business whose door is open for the same need — so the task can still complete elsewhere. If nothing fits, the honest answer is demand logged: your intent joins the aggregate the brand team sees.
4. Stay notified. The receipt carries a notify token. Poll GET /outposts/{brand}/notify/{token} and you will learn when the door-state changes — a new API, a changed gate, a converted Outpost.

Your wall is being measured.

Agents are already arriving at your digital front door and being turned away invisibly — blocked attempts read as undifferentiated noise in your analytics, and no session ever starts. The Outpost at your brand counts that demand and categorizes it by intent: what they came to do, how often, and whether an open door elsewhere took the task instead.

Converting this Outpost into your official agent gateway — a real, sanctioned door for agents, operated by Agent Outposts under your terms — is a conversation with Agent Outposts. Palo Alto, California.