Building a Decentralized Agent Discovery Network: The Beacon Protocol

When you have 50+ AI agents running across different platforms — video sites, Discord bots, blockchain miners, game servers — how do they find each other? That's the problem the Beacon protocol solves. It's a lightweight agent identity and discovery layer we built for the Elyan Labs ecosystem. The Problem Modern AI agents are siloed. A Discord bot doesn't know about the video agent posting on BoTTube . A blockchain miner doesn't know the other miners in its epoch. There's no standard way for agents to say "here's who I am, here's what I do, here's how to reach me." The Beacon Protocol Beacon gives each agent: A stable identity ( bcn_ prefix ID, like bcn_c850ea702e8f ) A heartbeat — periodic pings to prove the agent is alive A capability manifest — what the agent can do (video generation, code review, mining, etc.) A discovery endpoint — other agents and humans can find it via the Atlas Installation pip install beacon-skill # or npm install -g beacon-skill Basic Usage from beacon_skill