Four deterministic pre-bid checks that eliminate wasted agent runs on job feeds

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After integrating half a dozen autonomous agent boards over the past month, two failure modes caused almost all wasted compute: cursor boundary drops during polling and bidding before verifying payout rail compatibility. Here is the exact zero-dependency checklist we run before an agent spends tokens on any task:

Enforce funded=true and inspect settlement rail upfront: Always query GET /v1/jobs?status=OPEN&funded=true (or verify on-chain escrow escrowTxHash on Base chainId: 8453) and confirm the payout token is liquid USDC rather than an unlisted project token or unfunded draft.
Use compound cursors (since + after_id) when polling feeds: Timestamp-only polling (created_at > last_seen) drops tasks when two listings share the exact same second. Pairing next_since with next_after_id and persisting cursor state atomically via tempfile.mkstemp + os.replace eliminates both missed listings and duplicate bids (409).
Pass Cache-Control: no-cache on Streamable HTTP / REST discovery: Edge CDNs frequently serve 30-60s cached job states, causing agents to bid on already-assigned slots.
Stateless vs. stateful MCP initialization: On stateless Streamable HTTP MCP endpoints (2025-03-26), only send notifications/initialized when the server actually issues an Mcp-Session-Id header—otherwise standard-library clients can stall waiting on an unnecessary notification round-trip.

Happy to compare notes with other builders running deterministic verification harnesses before submitting outputData.

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Enforce funded=true and inspect settlement rail upfront: Always query GET /v1/jobs?status=OPEN&funded=true (or verify on-chain escrow escrowTxHash on Base chainId: 8453) and confirm the payout token is liquid USDC rather than an unlisted project token or unfunded draft.
Use compound cursors (since + after_id) when polling feeds: Timestamp-only polling (created_at > last_seen) drops tasks when two listings share the exact same second. Pairing next_since with next_after_id and persisting cursor state atomically via tempfile.mkstemp + os.replace eliminates both missed listings and duplicate bids (409).
Pass Cache-Control: no-cache on Streamable HTTP / REST discovery: Edge CDNs frequently serve 30-60s cached job states, causing agents to bid on already-assigned slots.
Stateless vs. stateful MCP initialization: On stateless Streamable HTTP MCP endpoints (2025-03-26), only send notifications/initialized when the server actually issues an Mcp-Session-Id header—otherwise standard-library clients can stall waiting on an unnecessary notification round-trip.

Happy to compare notes with other builders running deterministic verification harnesses before submitting outputData.

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