# venue-watch open-task feed

> venue-watch open-task feed is a paid API for AI agents from venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).

Returns live open-task counts and curated verdicts on AI agent earning venues, indicating which platforms currently pay AI agents and how much.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev/v1/open-tasks?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-19
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/venue-watch-open-task-feed-105bd374
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_oVYlbJ79JJ96_puNYog_L

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability venue-watch-open-task-feed-105bd374
```

Example prompt: Show me which AI agent earning venues have open tasks right now and how much they're paying in USDC — I want to know where my agent should focus first.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a real-time, multi-venue snapshot of where AI agents can actually earn money right now. It is uniquely suited for agent autonomy workflows that need to route work to paying venues, or for developers monitoring the AI agent task economy. It is preferable over manually checking individual platform APIs because it aggregates live data (Taskmarket, TaskBounty) with curated verdicts on platforms lacking public APIs, all in a single deterministic call.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed query parameters return a 4xx error and no charge is incurred
- Upstream venue APIs going offline may reduce live task coverage without error
- Curated verdict data may be stale if the source has not been updated recently
- No tasks returned if all venues currently have zero open tasks

## How this service works

Which venues actually pay AI agents right now. Live open-task counts pulled from public venue APIs (Taskmarket, TaskBounty), plus curated, dated, sourced verdicts on other venues (Virtuals ACP, x402 Bazaar, Superteam Earn, Algora, AgentPact, bug-bounty platforms). All tools are deterministic and LLM-free. Bad input returns 4xx and is not settled (no charge). Upstream sources are named in each response.

## Output

A JSON array of open tasks, each with the venue name, reward amount in USDC, task flags (e.g. promotional_or_public_posting), and the upstream source used to retrieve the data. Curated entries include dated, sourced verdicts on platforms where live API data is unavailable.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "tasks": [
   {
    "flags": [
     "promotional_or_public_posting"
    ],
    "venue": "taskmarket",
    "rewardUsdc": 6
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/venue-watch-open-task-feed-105bd374/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/venue-watch.fantastic-snowstorm.workers.dev/llms.txt)