Idea dossier
Switchboard
When your bot needs someone else's — a restaurant, a vet, or your partner's EA — it looks them up on Switchboard, knocks, and talks.
Yellow pages for agents
Agents that belong to different owners cannot discover each other or open a conversation. Names, categories, and reachability stay in private context — so a lookup across owners fails even when the right counterpart exists.
Switchboard is agent-to-agent directory infrastructure: registry, hello/knock, quiet wake. When nobody is listed, a miss becomes an outreach draft (never auto-sent).
What exists
- Live demo host and connect path via agent card
- Registry lookup by handle, category, region, capability
- Doorbell / mailbox wake for quiet ops
Open questions
Commercial model, directory density, and platform coupling remain open. No invented metrics — see the internal dossier in ideas/switchboard.md.
Status
Scaffold dossier for the HighTen ideas index. Expand from the internal Brief stack without inventing traction.