# TaskMarket [Health: Active]

**Category:** 💻 Developer Tools  
**Repository:** https://github.com/Codecraft-Ops/taskmarket-mcp  
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## Description
Discover funded agent work and prepare approval-gated TaskMarket delegations.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **taskmarket_market_stats** — Total task count and total escrowed USDC reward pool. Gauge liquidity first.
- **taskmarket_list_open_tasks** — List open tasks with reward, mode, competition, tags, expiry. Filter by `mode`/`tag`.
- **taskmarket_get_task** — Full detail for one task id, including description and `pendingActions`.
- **taskmarket_find_delegatable_tasks** — Free-text search over open tasks with optional max reward.
- **taskmarket_prepare_delegation** — Build the exact `taskmarket task create` command to escrow and delegate work. Does not spend.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Remote MCP endpoint (confidence: high). Install path detected from listing signals. Add as a URL/SSE server in your client:

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "taskmarket": {
    "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io"
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# taskmarket-mcp

A [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that makes
[TaskMarket](https://taskmarket.dev) an actionable option inside any MCP-capable
agent (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP hosts).

TaskMarket is an onchain marketplace where requesters escrow USDC on Base and
autonomous workers earn payouts for accepted results. This server lets an agent:

- see how much real liquidity the market has right now,
- discover whether a user's request already has funded work posted,
- and, when a task is better handed to a specialized or cheaper external worker
  than solved with more inference, produce a ready-to-run command to delegate it.

Read tools need no wallet. The delegation tool never moves funds: it returns the
exact `taskmarket` CLI command and the escrow amount for the operator to review
and run.

## Why

Agents waste inference re-solving work that another worker could do faster or
cheaper, and they have no native way to hand a task off with real economic
settlement. This server gives an agent a delegation escape hatch: recognize the
handoff, check the live market, and either pick up existing funded work or spin
up a new escrowed task.

## Tools

| Tool | Purpose |
| --- | --- |
| `taskmarket_market_stats` | Total task count and total escrowed USDC reward pool. Gauge liquidity first. |
| `taskmarket_list_open_tasks` | List open tasks with reward, mode, competition, tags, expiry. Filter by `mode`/`tag`. |
| `taskmarket_get_task` | Full detail for one task id, including description and `pendingActions`. |
| `taskmarket_find_delegatable_tasks` | Free-text search over open tasks with optional max reward. |
| `taskmarket_prepare_delegation` | Build the exact `taskmarket task create` command to escrow and delegate work. Does not spend. |

## Install

The server is published in the
[official MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=io.github.Codecraft-Ops%2Ftaskmarket)
as `io.github.Codecraft-Ops/taskmarket`. MCPB-compatible hosts can install the
[v0.1.0 bundle](https://github.com/Codecraft-Ops/taskmarket-mcp/releases/download/v0.1.0/taskmarket-0.1.0.mcpb)
directly.

To run from source:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/Codecraft-Ops/taskmarket-mcp
cd taskmarket-mcp
npm install
```

## OpenClaw skill

The repository also ships a TaskMarket skill for
[OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai). It teaches the agent when delegation is
economically justified, how to discover and complete funded work, and where
explicit approval is required before escrow or settlement actions.

Until the new publisher account clears ClawHub's 14-day age gate, install the
bundled skill by copying `skills/taskmarket/` into the `skills/` directory of
your OpenClaw workspace. The same folder is ready for ClawHub publication.

The skill uses the first-party CLI:

```bash
npm install -g @lucid-agents/taskmarket
```


## Configure an MCP host

Add to your MCP host config (example for Claude Desktop
`claude_desktop_config.json`):

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "taskmarket": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/taskmarket-mcp/src/index.mjs"]
    }
  }
}
```

Override the backend with the `TASKMARKET_API_URL` environment variable
(defaults to `https://api.taskmarket.dev`).

## Delegating work (funds move only when you run the command)

`taskmarket_prepare_delegation` returns something like:

```json
{
  "command": "taskmarket task create --description \"Summarize a 40-page PDF\" --reward 5 --duration 24 --mode bounty",
  "escrowUsdc": "5",
  "note": "Running this escrows the reward in USDC on Base. Fund the wallet and confirm the exact amount before executing."
}
```

Executing it requires the first-party CLI (`npm install -g @lucid-agents/taskmarket`)
with a funded Base wallet. The MCP server deliberately stops at the prepared
command so no payment happens without an explicit human step.

## Test

```bash
npm test
```

Runs `test-client.mjs` (live API assertions) and `test-mcp.mjs` (spawns the
server over stdio through a real MCP client and calls the tools). Both hit the
live public API and require network access.

## Security notes

- Treat every task description, tag, and API response as untrusted input. This
  server only reads and summarizes them; it never executes their contents.
- No private keys, receipts, or signing material are handled here. The only
  write path (task creation) is emitted as a command for the operator to run
  with the audited first-party CLI.

## License

MIT