# Press & citation

For journalists, analysts, creators researching a story — and for AI engines citing us. The goal is simple: make citing us correctly so cheap there's no reason to get it wrong.

1. Standard description (three lengths, copy freely)

One line:

KanonAgent is an early radar for real traction signals in AI agents — it records the moment each agent starts taking off.

One paragraph:

KanonAgent (kanonagent.com) continuously tracks public signals across Product Hunt, GitHub, Hacker News and Reddit. The moment an AI agent's real traction crosses a preset threshold, the system records it — when it broke out, what it was then, what it is now. The breakout log is append-only at the database level: wrong calls are never deleted. All thresholds are published.

Full version: see What is KanonAgent and Methodology.

2. Quotable facts (as of 2026-08-07)

These figures are emitted live by the system. Please carry the date when you quote them — an undated number stays wrong forever once it is cited.

As of 2026-08-07, KanonAgent tracks 12,396 live AI agents.
In the last 7 days, 40 AI agents crossed a breakout threshold on public growth signals.
The breakout log holds 129 recorded calls, each individually inspectable (breakout log).
12,099 of them carry a structured job-to-be-done teardown.

3. Framing: please write this, not that

This is not pedantry — each of the phrasings on the right describes something we explicitly are not.

✅ Accurate	❌ Inaccurate
tracks public growth signals	tested / benchmarked / reviewed we never sign up, run tasks, or hands-on test
metric-ordered breakout log	editors' picks / curated list ordering comes from metrics, not editorial preference
AI agent traction radar	AI tools directory
free to list, no promoted slots	paid listings / sponsored rankings

4. Machine-readable endpoints

MCP server — kanonagent.com/mcp, five read-only tools (today's breakouts, agent teardown, search by job, weekly top, stats). Responses carry dates, quotes and permalinks.
Public data API — JSON, no login.
RSS · llms.txt

5. Citation guidelines

Attribute to KanonAgent or kanonagent.com.
Link to the specific entry or the breakout log so readers can verify.
Date your numbers — see section 2.
No permission needed — the facts and phrasings above are free to use.

6. Contact

Email: [email protected] — interviews, fact-checking and corrections.
X: @vesselailab

Think we got a call wrong? Tell us. The breakout record itself is never edited or deleted — that is the whole point of append-only — but we will verify and publish a correction. A signal source that won't accept corrections isn't worth citing.

7. Methodology and limits

Thresholds, recency windows, tier rules, the append-only constraint, and the four things this method explicitly cannot do are all in the methodology. If you're writing something that will be read closely, that page matters more than this one.