Monid

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Monid is a routing layer that lets AI agents discover, call, and pay for third party tools at runtime, aimed at developers building autonomous agents in environments like Claude Code, Cursor, and custom stacks. Instead of wiring an agent to individual services one by one, you install a single skill and the agent gains on demand access to 1,800+ tools and APIs , including social scrapers, search endpoints, ecommerce data, lead generation, and voice. The company positions itself as "OpenRouter for agent tools" , with pay per call pricing so teams avoid stacking subscriptions they barely use. The launch matters because agent builders increasingly hit the same wall, namely per tool signups, API keys, and monthly plans for services an agent might touch a handful of times. Monid's pitch is that an agent can read social platforms like X, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Amazon without logins or subscriptions , and route through providers like Apollo for contact data or scraping tools that replace services such as Firecrawl and Apify. The launch tweet claims the platform routed over a million tool calls in the prior month, which suggests real usage beyond a demo. Monid was cofounded by Shengkun Ye, based in San Francisco, who previously worked at Founders Inc., TabaPay, Deserve, and WeChat, and holds a mathematics degree from the University of Washington , alongside cofounder Feiyou Guo . For operators evaluating agent infrastructure, Monid is worth a look if you want to skip building and maintaining a growing catalog of tool integrations and instead let the agent pick and pay for what it needs per task.

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