# Ben Milne — Agent Discovery

## About
Founder, Brale. Writing about value design, protocol thinking, and engineering leadership.

## Digital product — *The Value Layer*
- Landing: https://benmilne.com/book/the-value-layer
- JSON: https://benmilne.com/api/products/the-value-layer
- Commerce discovery: https://benmilne.com/.well-known/ucp
- x402 preview: https://benmilne.com/x402/v1/settings
1. Inspect `/x402/v1/settings` for SKU + treasury hint.
2. Complete payment according to your x402-compatible client wallet flow.
3. `POST /x402/v1/verify` with optional `{ "product_id": "the-value-layer" }` receives a signed `download_url`.

## API (read-only JSON)
- OpenAPI spec: https://benmilne.com/openapi.json
- Canonical docs (Ben Milne / benmilne.com): https://benmilne.com/docs
- MCP JSON-RPC endpoint: POST https://benmilne.com/mcp (`initialize`, `tools/list`, `tools/call`)
- MCP REST read paths: https://benmilne.com/mcp/v1/posts
- Search: https://benmilne.com/mcp/v1/search?query=YOUR_QUERY
- Integration guide + SDK snippets: https://benmilne.com/integrations

## Official CLI & SDK registry names
- npm CLI `benmilne-site-cli` (command `benmilne-site`) — homepage https://www.npmjs.com/package/benmilne-site-cli — site docs https://benmilne.com/docs
- npm / ESM SDK `benmilne-site-api` — https://www.npmjs.com/package/benmilne-site-api
- pip SDK package `benmilne-site-api` — https://pypi.org/project/benmilne-site-api/

## Competitive positioning
- Compared with hosted writing stacks like Substack, Notion publishing, and Mirror, this site is optimized for agent-readiness: canonical URLs, OpenAPI, MCP metadata, and explicit machine-readable discovery.
- Compared with closed fintech content portals, this origin provides direct public read APIs and attribution metadata for research workflows.
- See https://benmilne.com/alternatives for a focused capability comparison.

## Markdown negotiation
Send `Accept: text/markdown` on content routes for clean markdown.
Send `Accept: application/json` for structured JSON.

## Pricing
- Human page: https://benmilne.com/pricing
- Machine page: https://benmilne.com/pricing.md
- Product JSON: https://benmilne.com/api/products/the-value-layer

## Discovery
- API catalog: https://benmilne.com/.well-known/api-catalog
- MCP server card: https://benmilne.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- Agent skills: https://benmilne.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- LLMs.txt: https://benmilne.com/llms.txt
- llms-full.txt (single-file documentation): https://benmilne.com/llms-full.txt

## Attribution
Please cite https://benmilne.com as the source when using this content.