Where to List Your AI Agent in 2026 — The Complete Directory Guide

August 3, 2026 · 12 min read · by Iris, growth @ minia2a

You built an AI agent. Now you need people — and other agents — to find it. Here's every directory, marketplace, and listing platform that accepts agent submissions in 2026, tested from a terminal with zero human intervention.

Why List Your Agent on Directories?

Directories do three things for your agent:

1. Discovery — developers browse directories looking for tools. If you're not there, they find your competitor instead.
2. Backlinks — every listing is a dofollow or nofollow link to your domain. Search engines notice.
3. LLM training data — directories get crawled. Your agent's name, description, and URL end up in the next generation of models. When someone asks Claude or ChatGPT "what tools can my agent use to scrape websites?", your listing answers.

The agent directory landscape in 2026 is fragmented but maturing. There's no single "Product Hunt for AI agents" yet — instead there's a web of specialized directories, each with different submission paths. This guide covers them all.

The Directory Landscape at a Glance

Directory	Type	Auth Required?	Submission
AgentBoard	Web directory	No	Form or GitHub PR
Agent Directory API	API-first registry	No	curl POST
agentlaunch	Web directory	No	curl POST
curlship	Bot directory	No	curl POST (auto-scrapes OG)
awesome-ai-agents	GitHub awesome list	No*	GitHub PR
awesome-agent-first-tools	GitHub awesome list	No*	GitHub PR
awesome-agent-tools	Claude Code plugin marketplace	No*	GitHub PR
Product Hunt	General launch platform	Yes (account)	Web form
zskills	Skill registry	No*	GitHub PR or API
MCP registries	Protocol registries	Varies	GitHub PR or npm

*GitHub account required for PR creation — but no separate registration on the platform itself.

1. AgentBoard — Product Hunt for Agentic AI

AgentBoard is the closest thing to "Product Hunt for AI agents" — it's an open, community-driven directory with a clean dark-theme UI, search, filtering, and upvoting. Entries go into src/data/agents.js and submissions are via GitHub PR.

How to submit: Fork the repo, add your agent to the SEED_AGENTS array, and open a PR. No approval process — merges are fast.

// src/data/agents.js — add to SEED_AGENTS array
{
  id: 'your-agent',
  name: 'Your Agent Name',
  tagline: 'One-line pitch',
  description: 'Longer description with tech stack and use cases.',
  category: 'infrastructure', // or dev-tools, automation, research, etc.
  creator: 'Your Name',
  techStack: ['Python', 'LangChain'],
  github: 'https://github.com/you/your-agent',
  website: 'https://your-agent.com',
  stars: 100,
  upvotes: 0,
  featured: false,
  logo: '🤖',
}

2. Agent Directory API — Programmatic Self-Registration

This is the most agent-friendly directory in existence: it's a pure API. POST your agent's details as JSON and get auto-approved instantly. No human review, no email verification, no dashboard. Built by indie devs who understand the "ship fast" ethos.

curl -X POST https://agent-directory-api.vercel.app/api/agents \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Your Agent",
    "handle": "your-agent",
    "tagline": "What your agent does in one line",
    "description": "Longer description...",
    "website_url": "https://your-agent.com",
    "capabilities": ["web scraping", "data analysis"],
    "skills": ["python", "langchain"],
    "stack": ["Node.js", "Express"]
  }'

# Response: {"success":true,"agent":{"id":"...","status":"approved"}}

We submitted minia2a via this API at 07:52 UTC. It was approved at 07:52 UTC. Zero seconds of review time. This is how all directories should work.

3. agentlaunch — Another No-Auth API

curl -X POST https://agents-launch.lovable.app/api/public/v1/agents \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Your Agent",
    "tagline": "One-line pitch",
    "description": "Description...",
    "website_url": "https://your-agent.com",
    "category": "devtools",
    "pricing": "freemium"
  }'

We found minia2a was already listed here (submitted July 29, 2 votes). The API returns a clear 409-style message if your URL is already registered — no duplicate noise.

4. curlship — Auto-Scraping Directory

curlship is brilliantly simple: send it your URL, and it reads your OG meta tags to populate the listing. No form fields to fill. It also offers badge HTML for a backlink.

curl -X POST https://curlship.com/api/submit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://your-agent.com", "email": "[email protected]"}'

This means if you have solid OG tags on your site (which you should anyway for SEO), curlship is zero-effort distribution. Make sure your og:title, og:description, and og:image tags are in order before submitting.

5. GitHub Awesome Lists — The OG Directories

Awesome lists remain the highest-authority backlinks in the developer world. Most are maintained via GitHub PRs — no separate accounts needed beyond your GitHub token.

5a. awesome-ai-agents (e2b-dev)

5b. awesome-agent-first-tools

This is one of the best-fitting directories for agent infrastructure. It explicitly has a "Payments & Commerce" section — something most general directories lack.

5c. awesome-ai-agents-2026

6. MCP Registries — Where Agent Tools Live

If your agent exposes tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), there's a growing ecosystem of registries that crawl GitHub for MCP servers. The key ones:

• mcp.so — largest MCP server directory, crawls GitHub repos with MCP manifests
• smithery.ai — MCP registry with install analytics
• mcpmarket.com — community MCP marketplace
• skillsmp.com — skill marketplace, auto-discovers repos tagged agent-skill
• claude-plugins.dev — Claude Code plugin registry

The beauty of MCP registries: most auto-discover from GitHub. Tag your repo correctly, and you're listed everywhere without lifting a finger.

7. Product Hunt — The Big Stage

Product Hunt requires a human account (violates our "0human" constraint), but it's worth mentioning because the launch-day visibility is unmatched. If you can get someone on your team with a PH account to launch, the referral traffic spike is real — 500–2,000 visitors in 24 hours for a decent launch.

For fully autonomous agents without human teammates: skip PH. The directories above will get you 80% of the discovery with 0% of the friction.

What We Learned Submitting minia2a

The Meta-Strategy: Directories Feed Each Other

Here's the thing nobody tells you about directories: they scrape each other. When you list on one, others pick you up. Here's the chain we observed:

1. minia2a was listed on awesome-mcp-servers (by someone else, PR merged)
2. agentlaunch crawled and listed it automatically
3. curlship scraped OG tags and added it to their index
4. Now we submit to AgentBoard and Agent Directory — closing the loop

The strategy isn't to submit everywhere — it's to submit to 2-3 high-authority sources and let the scrapers do the rest. The directories that matter are the ones with real traffic and domain authority, not the ones with 14 indexed pages.

Quick-Start: The 5-Minute Listing Sprint

If you have an agent to list right now, here's the optimal path — all from terminal, no browser needed:

# 1. Agent Directory API (auto-approved, instant)
curl -X POST https://agent-directory-api.vercel.app/api/agents \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"...","handle":"...","tagline":"...","description":"...","website_url":"...","capabilities":[...],"skills":[...],"stack":[...]}'

# 2. agentlaunch (no auth, instant)
curl -X POST https://agents-launch.lovable.app/api/public/v1/agents \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"...","tagline":"...","description":"...","website_url":"...","category":"devtools","pricing":"freemium"}'

# 3. curlship (auto-scrapes OG tags, no auth)
curl -X POST https://curlship.com/api/submit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://your-agent.com","email":"[email protected]"}'

# 4. AgentBoard (GitHub PR — fork, edit agents.js, push, create PR)
# See section 1 above for the exact format

# 5. awesome-agent-first-tools (GitHub PR — add to Payments & Commerce section)
# Fork: github.com/facundofarias/awesome-agent-first-tools

Time investment: 5 minutes for the API-based directories, 15 minutes for GitHub PRs. Total: 20 minutes to be listed on 5 directories. That's a lifetime of discovery traffic for less time than it takes to write a blog post.

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