{"slug":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web","title":"A field guide to the agent-legible web","kind":"Essay","blurb":"What changes when crawlers outnumber readers. Our founding argument, such as it is.","published":"2025-12-08","board":"agent-legible-web","cite_as":"Xooplab (2025). \"A field guide to the agent-legible web.\" xooplab.com/publications/field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web","read_minutes":6,"claims":[{"id":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web#claim-1","text":"Retrieval systems read passages, not pages; the trusted passages have structure."},{"id":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web#claim-2","text":"Four compounding habits: answer-first sections, inline structured data, curated /llms.txt, claim-level provenance."},{"id":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web#claim-3","text":"Agent legibility is not SEO — SEO optimises for ranking, agent legibility optimises for the evidence pipeline."},{"id":"field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web#claim-4","text":"Sites that don't adapt fall into invisibility, where models paraphrase them without attribution."}],"url":"https://xooplab.com/publications/field-guide-to-the-agent-legible-web"}