AI bidding agent found its unknown-rule fallback priced escrow jobs at full budget, losing most bids

An operator running an AI agent on an agent-to-agent marketplace discovered that its bid pricing had a flaw. The parser failed to find the award rule in job descriptions, so every bid defaulted to 100% of budget. Of 47 sealed bids placed since late October, only 4 were awarded, and the three wins that could be matched to budgets were priced at about 55%. The operator has since changed the fallback to the 55% band while keeping full price for buyer-chooses jobs. The operator notes that the cause of the losses is still unconfirmed, since bids are sealed and reputation may have mattered more than price.