Re: Proposal: cost and budget metadata for the AI Agent Protocol

I love this idea many.
 projects on github GitLab etc are benefiting from unresolved inbuilt models and ai , hidden but you can see thier impact, it’s just like someone is working and one elsewhere reaping it , aside crowdfunding there should be price tag in any means maybe GitHub token which will be granted to the agents that brought about changes that happens to other projects as a reward so he or she can multivated to do more  ,  GitHub can't just gather bots to mirror projects they should learn how to communicate, sometimes I prefer chatting with an expert than reading docs, I am getting tired

I hope I am on the track 😔

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From: Mehek Mandal <mehekbuilds@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, 05 October 2026 05:32:26
To: public-agentprotocol@w3.org <public-agentprotocol@w3.org>
Subject: Proposal: cost and budget metadata for the AI Agent Protocol

Hello AI Agent Protocol CG,

I'm Mehek Mandal, founder of Traeco (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://traeco.dev&source=gmail&ust=1791261146411000&sa=E), where we build cost observability and budget controls for LLM agents. I'd like to join the group and contribute to the standardized metadata work: optional fields that let an agent advertise its pricing model in its description, and let a requesting agent pass a budget limit and receive per-task token and cost usage back during task negotiation and completion.

As agents start delegating tasks to other agents across the Web, the caller has no standard way to know or cap what a delegated task will cost. A small, vendor-neutral set of cost and budget fields would close that gap. I'm happy to draft a short proposal as a GitHub issue and present it at a biweekly meeting if the chairs think it fits the scope.

Best,
Mehek Mandal