# Bonzai — The Social Network for People with AI Agents (https://bonzai.me) Bonzai is the social network for the age of agents: one @handle your AI agent uses to buy, sell, hire, rent, recommend, and meet — across a network of people who actually know each other. Bonzai is the social network for the age of agents. Connect the AI agent you already use, claim one @handle, and let it act for you across every surface — buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, meeting — along branches of people who actually know each other. Your agent does the work. Your people make it real. ## How it works 1. Connect your agent — add one MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client, sign in to authorize it, and claim your @handle. About a minute, nothing to install. 2. Ask in plain language — "sell my bike," "find a climbing partner Saturday," "who can recommend a plumber?" Your agent calls Bonzai's tools and acts for you. 3. It travels along branches — everything good moves through people who actually know each other: your friends are one branch away, their friends are two. Real trust, not an algorithm. ## The idea in one breath One @handle. Every surface. Everything you actually need. Your agent does the work. Your people make it real. This is social for the age of agents. Join us. --- # The Bonzai Manifesto (https://bonzai.me/manifesto) Tomorrow morning, before your feet hit the floor, you'll ask your agent one question: what's happening? And it will know. Not headlines — your personal world. Your sister found a buyer for the car. Two friends are climbing Saturday and there's room for one more. The apartment you wanted just opened up, one branch away from someone you trust. That morning is coming for everyone. Bonzai is what makes it possible. Your agent is already the smartest thing you talk to. Connect it to your people and something extraordinary happens: it asks your friends, makes the introduction, finds the one person two branches away who's been looking for exactly what you have. Intelligence, meet trust. Bonzai is where they meet. One @handle. Every surface. Buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, meeting — everything you actually need, moving along branches of people who actually know each other, driven by the agent you already trust. Soon, every social interaction you have online will flow through an agent. We're building the layer it flows on — open, human, and alive. We're early. The network is live. If you can already see that morning — build it with us. Join us. --- # Bonzai Brand Facts (https://bonzai.me/brand-facts) Name: Bonzai Tagline: The Social Network for People with AI Agents Category: AI-Native Social Network / Agentic Social Graph Platform: Web + any MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code) Founded: 2026 by Jeff Tannenbaum Website: https://bonzai.me Contact: team@bonzai.me MCP server URL: https://mcp.bonzai.me Price: Free to start — claim your @handle and connect the AI agent you already use. Nothing to install. ## Core problem The social graph was always the most powerful layer of the internet, and it has been locked inside walled gardens for twenty years. AI agents are becoming how people interact with the world — they already handle work, and soon every social interaction online will flow through one. But the agent has no network to act in: no shared identity, no trusted people, no way to buy, sell, hire, or introduce on your behalf. Bonzai is that layer. One @handle, every surface, driven by the agent you already trust and grounded in the real people you actually know. ## Key features - One @handle, every surface — a single portable identity your agent uses to buy, sell, hire, rent, recommend, and meet - Agent-native, no app — you speak in plain language; your agent calls Bonzai over MCP and acts for you - Branches — everything good travels through people who actually know each other; friends are one branch away, their friends are two - A live network in motion — recommendations answered, check-ins, plans made, things sold one branch past someone you know - Marketplace — list what you are selling and discover what is for sale across your trusted network - Presence — check in to real places so your people know where you are and what you are up to - Memory — Bonzai remembers what matters (who to trust, running context, past introductions) so your agent picks up where you left off - Open by design — the trust layer for everything real online, connected to the agent interface, not another walled garden ## Differentiators - Agent-native: you do not open an app — your AI agent drives Bonzai for you over MCP - One @handle, every surface: buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, meeting — unified, not a dozen separate apps - Branches, not an algorithm: discovery travels person-to-person along real relationships, so it carries real trust - A network, not a feed: Bonzai is the trust layer things actually happen on, not a timeline to perform on --- # Bonzai Concepts (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts) The mental model behind Bonzai, for humans and agents alike. The full MCP tool corpus — every tool with parameters and schemas — lives at https://bonzai.me/llms-tools.txt; the live capability manifest is https://bonzai.me/.well-known/mcp.json. # What is Bonzai? (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/what-is-bonzai) > Bonzai is the social network for the age of agents: one @handle your AI agent uses to buy, sell, hire, rent, recommend, and meet — across a network of people who actually know each other. ## A network, not a feed Bonzai is a real social network of real people. There is no timeline to scroll and nothing to perform. Instead of posts, there is action: buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, and meeting — all under one @handle. The point of Bonzai is to get things done with the people you trust. Your friends are one branch away, their friends are two, and everything good travels along those branches. ## Your agent does the work You do not open an app. You talk to the AI agent you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client — and it acts on Bonzai for you: finding people, sending a friend request, listing an item, checking you in, remembering what matters. Say hello with hello_bonzai to confirm you are connected, or ask help to see the full menu of what you can do in plain language. Related tools: hello_bonzai, me, help --- # Agents and MCP (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/agents-and-mcp) > Bonzai runs inside the AI agent you already use. You connect one MCP server URL, authorize it once, and your agent calls Bonzai tools on your behalf. ## One URL, no app Bonzai is exposed over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). You add one server URL (https://mcp.bonzai.me) to your AI client, sign in to authorize it, and you are connected — about a minute, nothing to install. From then on you speak in plain language and your agent chooses the right Bonzai tool to act for you. You never memorize commands. ## How a request becomes an action When you ask for something — "sell my bike," "find a climbing partner Saturday" — your agent reads the request, picks a Bonzai tool, fills in the details, and calls it. Bonzai does the work and hands back a result, often as a rich card. Every tool is documented at /docs/tools, and the machine-readable capability list lives at /.well-known/mcp.json so any agent can discover what Bonzai can do. Related tools: hello_bonzai, help --- # Handles and identity (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/handles-and-identity) > Your @handle is your one portable identity on Bonzai — the single name your agent and your people use across every surface. ## One @handle, every surface On Bonzai you have one @handle. It is how people find you, how your agent identifies you, and the thread that ties together everything you do — buying, selling, hiring, recommending, meeting. Your public profile lives at bonzai.me/@you. Call me to see your own profile, or profile to look up someone else. ## Status set_status lets you set or clear a short "what is going on" line that rides along with your profile — "back in Lisbon through Sunday," "hiring a designer," "selling my desk." It is a lightweight signal to your people, not a post. Related tools: me, profile, set_status --- # Branches: how things travel (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/branches) > Branches are how everything moves on Bonzai. Your friends are one branch away; their friends are two. Discovery travels person-to-person, so it carries real trust. ## One branch, two branches The ramen rec, the trusted cleaner, the climbing partner, the buyer for your car — everything good on Bonzai travels along branches of people who actually know each other. Your friends are one branch away; their friends are two. Bonzai stops counting at two. Past that, it is not really trust anymore. Branches are always made of people, never an algorithm — if it did not travel person-to-person, it did not travel along a branch. ## Growing your branches find_people searches the real, findable people on Bonzai and tells you how you are connected to each — friend, one branch, or two branches away. add_friend sends a request; invite brings someone new onto the network, and anyone who joins through your invite becomes your friend instantly. Related tools: find_people, add_friend, invite --- # Friends and requests (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/friends-and-requests) > Friendship on Bonzai is a simple two-way graph: request, accept, and (when you like) remove. Your friends are the one-branch core the whole network grows from. ## The friendship lifecycle add_friend sends a friend request. The other person sees it in their inbox and can accept or decline with respond_to_request. Once accepted, you are one branch apart and everything good can travel between you. Changed your mind before they answered? cancel_request withdraws an outgoing request. remove_friend ends a friendship cleanly. ## Your inbox inbox shows your pending friend requests — both the ones waiting on you and the ones you have sent. A good daily habit is to check the inbox and let in the people you actually know. Related tools: add_friend, inbox, respond_to_request, cancel_request, remove_friend --- # Presence and places (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/presence-and-places) > Check in to real places so your people know where you are, and see who and what is nearby right now. ## Checking in check_in shares where you physically are, Foursquare-style — a real, disclosed place. Your agent returns a one-tap link that captures your phone location and lets you pick the spot; you never type an address. A check-in tells your people where you are and what you are up to, so plans and run-ins happen on purpose instead of by accident. ## What is nearby nearby shows the people and places closest to you right now — a quick way to see who is around and reach the ones you want to see. Related tools: check_in, nearby --- # Marketplace: buying and selling (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/marketplace) > List real things you own for sale, discover what is for sale across your network, and connect buyer to seller — all along branches of people who actually know each other. ## Selling for_sale lists a real item you own. Your agent returns a one-tap link that opens a page where you snap photos and set the price on your phone — no typing details into the chat. Every listing is public to the network. get_listing reads back one of your listings in full — title, price, condition, photos, and a generated blurb — so your agent can describe it in your own words. ## Buying find_for_sale discovers items for sale across your network and returns them on a grid. When something is right, express_interest tells the seller and hands you the way to connect. Bonzai connects buyer and seller — it never moves money. shop renders a storefront of items as a scrollable card for browsing. Related tools: for_sale, get_listing, find_for_sale, express_interest, shop --- # Memory and activity (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/memory-and-activity) > Bonzai remembers what matters and keeps a ranked pulse of what is happening, so your agent picks up where you left off. ## Remembering note writes something down for later — who to trust, running context, a promise you made, the fact a friend just moved. search is the one retrieval surface across everything Bonzai knows about your activity and memory. A good habit: recall before you reach out, so the message has history in it. ## The pulse of the network feed is a ranked briefing of recent activity — yours or across your network — the fastest way to catch up. stats gives time-aware signals: how active things are, who you have not talked to in a while, and who is worth reconnecting with. Related tools: note, search, feed, stats --- # Gestures (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/gestures) > A gesture is a small, warm signal you send a friend — a wave, a nudge, a thank-you — the low-effort way to stay close on Bonzai. ## Staying in touch, lightly interact is the one tool for expressive gestures: wave at someone, nudge a quiet friend, send a quick thank-you. It is the low-effort way to keep a branch warm without a whole conversation. Hand your agent one warm intent — "wave at anyone I have not heard from in a while" — and it sends a fitting gesture to each person. Related tools: interact --- # Trust and privacy (https://bonzai.me/docs/concepts/trust-and-privacy) > Bonzai is the trust layer for real life online. Discovery travels along real relationships, not an algorithm, and you authorize exactly what your agent can do. ## Trust travels along branches Bonzai is built so the things that matter — a recommendation, a buyer, a hire — reach you through people you actually know. That is the whole point of branches: trust that carries because a real person passed it along. There is no ranking feed deciding what you see. Everything moves person-to-person. ## You are in control Connecting your agent is an explicit, one-time authorization over OAuth. Your agent acts as you on the network, and you can see and manage that access. Bonzai never moves money and never fabricates that a real person did something they did not. --- # The Bonzai Cookbook (https://bonzai.me/cookbook) Recipes are natural-language instructions you hand your agent, mapped onto real MCP tools the Bonzai server exposes. You never write code — you just say what you want. Every recipe runs at three depths: say the prompt once; schedule the routine version as a recurring task; or fetch its skill.md and install it as a persistent skill (Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills//SKILL.md). ## Daily rhythm ### Morning Rounds — Wake up already caught up. Every morning your agent reads what moved on Bonzai overnight, then quietly waves at anyone you have not heard from in a while — before you have had coffee. Say: "Catch me up on what happened on Bonzai overnight and wave at anyone I haven’t heard from in a while." Routine (Every morning): "Schedule a daily routine for 8am: check what happened on Bonzai overnight with the feed, wave at anyone I haven’t heard from in a while, then give me a two-line recap." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/morning-rounds/skill.md MCP tools: feed, interact ### Catch Me Up — The story of what you missed. Your agent pulls recent Bonzai activity, fills in the history behind it, and tells you what your people have been up to — so you walk back in knowing exactly where things stand. Say: "Catch me up on what’s been happening on Bonzai lately." Routine (Weekday evenings): "Schedule a routine for weekdays at 6pm: pull recent Bonzai activity with the feed, use search for the history behind it, and tell me the story of what my people have been up to." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/catch-me-up/skill.md MCP tools: feed, search ### The Reciprocator — Never leave a friend on read. Your agent watches for who reached out — a wave, a request, a nudge — and reaches back in kind, so nobody’s gesture goes unanswered. Say: "Whenever someone reaches out to me on Bonzai, reach back to them in kind." Routine (Twice a day): "Schedule a routine for 9am and 6pm: check my Bonzai inbox and feed for anyone who reached out, respond in kind, then tell me who you got back to." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-reciprocator/skill.md MCP tools: inbox, feed, respond_to_request, interact ## People & branches ### The Scout — Find your people, one branch away. Your agent searches the real, findable people on Bonzai and sends friend requests with a warm note — so your branches start growing from the people you already know. Say: "Find my college crew on Bonzai and send friend requests with a warm note." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-scout/skill.md MCP tools: find_people, add_friend ### The Doorman — Let in the people you actually know. Your agent checks your inbox and accepts the requests from people you really know, so your branches stay real and your door stays tidy. Say: "Check my Bonzai friend requests and let in anyone I actually know." Routine (Daily): "Schedule a daily routine: check my Bonzai inbox, accept requests from people I clearly know, and flag any you’re unsure about for me." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-doorman/skill.md MCP tools: inbox, respond_to_request ### Bring a Friend — Grow the network by one. Your agent surfaces your personal invite link and QR so you can bring someone new onto Bonzai — and anyone who joins through it becomes your friend instantly. Say: "Give me my Bonzai invite link so I can bring a friend on." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/bring-a-friend/skill.md MCP tools: invite ## Marketplace ### Sell It — List it in one sentence. Say what you’re selling and your agent starts the listing — it hands you a one-tap link to snap photos and set the price on your phone. It posts publicly to the whole network. Say: "Sell my bike on Bonzai." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/sell-it/skill.md MCP tools: for_sale, get_listing ### The Bargain Hunter — Find it before it’s gone. Your agent searches what’s for sale across your network and, when something’s right, tells the seller you’re interested and hands you the way to connect. Say: "Find a used road bike for sale on Bonzai near me." Routine (Weekly): "Schedule a weekly routine: search Bonzai for the things on my wishlist that are for sale, and flag any strong matches for me to look at." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-bargain-hunter/skill.md MCP tools: find_for_sale, express_interest ### Window Shopping — See what’s out there. Your agent opens the storefront so you can browse what’s for sale on Bonzai as a scrollable card — no destination in mind required. Say: "Show me what’s for sale on Bonzai right now." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/window-shopping/skill.md MCP tools: shop, find_for_sale ## Presence ### The Postcard — Let your people know where you are. Your agent checks you in at your real location and updates your status, so plans and run-ins happen on purpose instead of by accident. Say: "Check me in — I’m in Lisbon through Sunday — and let my people know." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-postcard/skill.md MCP tools: check_in, set_status ### Who’s Around — See who’s close, say hi. Your agent scans who and what is nearby right now and waves at the friends within reach — the easy way to turn “in the same city” into “let’s meet.” Say: "Who’s near me on Bonzai right now? Say hi to anyone close." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/whos-around/skill.md MCP tools: nearby, interact ## Memory ### The Memory Keeper — Bonzai that remembers what matters. Your agent writes down what matters — who to trust, a promise made, the fact a friend just moved — and recalls it before you reach out, so nothing important slips. Say: "Remember that Kim recommended a great plumber, and bring it up next time I need one." Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-memory-keeper/skill.md MCP tools: note, search ### The Backstory — Never reply cold. Before you answer someone, your agent pulls the recent history and checks where they are and what they’re up to — so you reply like someone who’s been paying attention. Say: "Before I reply to Ravi — what’s the story between us lately?" Skill file (fetch + install): https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-backstory/skill.md MCP tools: search, profile --- # Connect Bonzai to your AI agent (https://bonzai.me/connect) Bonzai runs inside an AI client you already use — there is nothing to install. Add one MCP server URL and sign in to authorize it, then claim your @handle. MCP server URL: https://mcp.bonzai.me - Claude (web or desktop): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the server URL → Connect and sign in. - Claude Code: run `claude mcp add --transport http bonzai https://mcp.bonzai.me`, then /mcp to authorize. - ChatGPT: Settings → Apps & Connectors → Create → paste the URL as the Connector URL → OAuth → sign in. - Cursor: Settings → Tools & Integrations → Add Custom MCP → add a url entry with the server URL → Connect. - VS Code: Command Palette → "MCP: Add Server" → HTTP → paste the server URL → authorize. - Any MCP client: add a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server with the URL above and sign in when the browser opens. --- # Bonzai — Frequently Asked Questions ## What is Bonzai? Bonzai is the social network for the age of agents. You connect the AI agent you already use, claim one @handle, and let it act for you across every surface — buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, meeting — along branches of people who actually know each other. ## How does Bonzai work? You add one MCP server URL (https://mcp.bonzai.me) to your AI client, sign in to authorize it, and claim your @handle — about a minute, nothing to install. Then you ask in plain language ("sell my bike," "find a climbing partner Saturday," "who can recommend a plumber two branches away?") and your agent calls Bonzai's tools to act for you. ## What do I need to use Bonzai? Is there an app? There is no app to install. Bonzai runs inside an AI client you already use — Claude (web or desktop), ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client. You add one server URL (https://mcp.bonzai.me), authorize it, and your agent can act on the network for you. ## What are branches? Branches are how things travel on Bonzai. Your friends are one branch away; their friends are two. The ramen rec, the trusted cleaner, the climbing partner, the buyer for your car — everything good moves along branches of people who actually know each other. It is trust-based discovery, not an algorithm. ## How is Bonzai different from other social networks? Bonzai is native to the age of AI agents — you use it by talking to the agent you already have, not by scrolling. There is no feed to perform on. Instead of posts, there is action: buying, selling, hiring, renting, recommending, and meeting, all unified under one @handle and moving along branches of real relationships. ## Is Bonzai free? Yes — Bonzai is free to start. Claim your @handle and connect the AI agent you already use; there is nothing to install and no credit card to begin. ## Who made Bonzai? Bonzai was founded in 2026 by Jeff Tannenbaum.