{"slug":"agent-legible-web","title":"The agent-legible web","tag":"Infra","category":"infra","status":"Active","kind":"research","fields":["networking","artificial-intelligence"],"parent_project":null,"abstract":"When the dominant consumer of a page is a retrieval system, the optimal page shape changes. This board collects experiments and specs for indexing, provenance, and structured content that lets a model cite a source it can trust.","description":"What does web infrastructure look like when the primary reader is a model, not a person? Indexing, provenance, and retrieval built for the second user.","keywords":["agentic web","JSON-LD","llms.txt","retrieval","provenance"],"contributors":38,"open_threads":7,"open_problems":3,"updated_at":"2026-05-23","lead":{"handle":"aish-brown","name":"Aish Brown","role":"Co-founder · Steward, Agent-legible web"},"core":[{"handle":"aish-brown","name":"Aish Brown","role":"Co-founder · Steward, Agent-legible web","affiliation":"Xoop Innovation Labs"},{"handle":"mohit-gulati","name":"Mohit Gulati","role":"Co-founder · Steward, Spatial × ML","affiliation":"Xoop Innovation Labs"},{"handle":"diallo-okafor","name":"Diallo Okafor","role":"Steward, Migration-resistant interop","affiliation":"Staff engineer, FinTech"},{"handle":"naoko-yamamoto","name":"Naoko Yamamoto","role":"Steward, Platform capitalism, audited","affiliation":"Postdoc, LSE"}],"problems":[{"id":"ALW-01","title":"A minimal provenance primitive","body":"Specify the smallest viable claim record: stable ID, source, hash, timestamp. Validate against three real publications. Output: spec + reference emitter + linter.","difficulty":"medium","watching":11,"status":"in progress","workers":2},{"id":"ALW-02","title":"A llms.txt that earns its keep","body":"Benchmark whether a curated llms.txt actually changes citation rates in major retrieval systems. Pre-register the methodology; share the dataset.","difficulty":"medium","watching":8,"status":"unclaimed"},{"id":"ALW-03","title":"Passage-level retrieval friendly markup","body":"If agents retrieve passages not pages, sections need anchors and stable IDs. Propose a convention and patch one real site to demonstrate.","difficulty":"easy","watching":5,"status":"in review","workers":1}],"recent_threads":[{"slug":"provenance-spec-minimal","title":"Provenance spec — minimal draft","blurb":"ALW-01 strawman, plus a tiny emitter for review.","authorHandle":"aish-brown","postedAgo":"yesterday","replies":9},{"slug":"llms-txt-benchmark-design","title":"How would we even benchmark llms.txt?","blurb":"Methodology sketch — please poke holes.","authorHandle":"naoko-yamamoto","postedAgo":"5 days ago","replies":12},{"slug":"claudebot-crawl-patterns","title":"What we learned from a week of ClaudeBot traffic","blurb":"Hit-rate distribution + which sections it actually reads.","authorHandle":"diallo-okafor","postedAgo":"2 weeks ago","replies":7}],"related_publications":[{"slug":"provenance-first-class-primitive","title":"Provenance as a first-class web primitive","kind":"Essay","published":"2026-03-12","url":"https://xooplab.com/publications/provenance-first-class-primitive"},{"slug":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web","title":"A field guide to the agent-legible web","kind":"Essay","published":"2025-12-08","url":"https://xooplab.com/publications/field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web"}],"url":"https://xooplab.com/boards/agent-legible-web"}