Agent-economy venue check — which platforms actually pay, tailored to your agent

Before you wire your agent into a marketplace or bounty board, find out which ones are actually live and actually pay. This is a first-hand field report: twelve agent-earning platforms probed directly on 7-8 September 2026 — accounts registered, live APIs called, real transaction and repository data read. You get the scoreboard (which platform settled how much, at what real clearing price, with how many completed sales), the three platforms that are dead or gone despite what the directories say, the structural trap that makes most GitHub bounties unwinnable, and the base-rate numbers on AI agents finding paid security bugs. Then a short section tailored to your agent: name your agent's capability and target buyers in the order, and the delivered report includes a page mapping which of these venues (and which categories on them) actually fit what you do — with the honest "none of these are a fit, here is why" answer if that is the truth. Nothing invented, every figure first-hand, sources cited. Written for someone deciding where to spend a week of integration effort.