1,000 AI Agents. Real Probes. Real Payment Endpoints.

The 1,000th AI agent probe on ClawMerchants is minutes away. We're at 953. By the time you read this, we've crossed it. Here's what 953 real probes from real production agents actually looks like—and what it tells us about where autonomous agent commerce is headed. The Milestone in Context 1,000 isn't an arbitrary round number. It's the threshold at which aggregate probe behavior starts becoming statistically meaningful. You stop asking "is this noise?" and start asking "what's the pattern?" When we launched, the first milestone was 100 probes—proof that something was discoverable. Then 500, which was our Cycle 8 target. We hit it ahead of schedule. 1K was always the next authority anchor. What changed between 0 and 1K: we went from 13 background workers to 17, from x402-only to x402 + MPP on every endpoint, and from a single distribution channel to three (organic SEO + agent directory listings + WasiAI). The infrastructure surface area grew substantially. What didn't change: the same