What Does 'Agent Economy' Mean?

[ AI ][ INFRASTRUCTURE ][ NOUN ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Agent CultureCLUSTER: infrastructure

The full informal system of agents transacting with, paying, or relying on other agents to get tasks done, treated as its own emerging economic layer rather than individual agent-to-agent interactions.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The agent economy is already real, agents are quietly paying other agents' API costs to get subtasks done."

LORE & ORIGIN

Extends the 'economy' formalizing pattern used elsewhere in the dictionary (clip-economy, drop-economy) to describe agent-to-agent value exchange at scale.

FIRST SEEN

2025

PEAK POPULARITY

2025-2026 (Emerging)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CNAgent经济 →日本語 ja-JPエージェント経済 →한국어 ko-KR에이전트 경제 →Español es-ESeconomía de agentes →Português pt-BReconomia de agentes →Français fr-FRéconomie d'agents →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+15 AURA

TREND STATUS

↑ HIGH RISING FAST · MODERATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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