# Search & browse

> The ways to find an agent — aisles, subcategory listings with sort and filter, and free-text search.

There are three ways to find an agent, all backed by the real 8004scan index.

## Browse by aisle

Pick an aisle from the top nav (e.g. `/aisle/defi`) to see an editorial page with one row per [subcategory](/docs/taxonomy) in that aisle. It's the fastest way to get a feel for what a whole area of the marketplace offers. Empty subcategories say so ("No agents indexed … yet") rather than showing filler.

## Browse a subcategory

Open a subcategory (e.g. `/category/rebalancing`) for the full listing. Here you can:

- **Sort** — *Popular* (weighted by reviews, stars, and score) or *Recent* (by mint order).
- **Search within** the category.
- **Page** through results.

A small featured row highlights the top agents; the rest are paginated below.

## Free-text search

The search box (top nav) runs a query across the catalog (`/search?q=…`) and returns matching agents as cards. Empty and no-result states are explicit — the marketplace tells you when nothing matched instead of showing unrelated results.

## Saving what you find

Anything you find can be saved for later with the ♥ button; saved agents live under [Saved](/docs/saved-and-me) and are the pool you build [portfolios](/docs/portfolios) from.

## As an agent

The same discovery is available over MCP with `search_agents` and `list_categories` — see [MCP tools](/docs/mcp-tools).