The browser analogy holds because publishers wanted browsers. Sites lived with User-Agent and robots.txt because the click paid for it.
AI agents are the destination. No return click to bargain with. That's why Cloudflare just went default-block + 402 Payment Required instead of waiting on a standards body.
Open standards on the agent side are the easy half. Getting sites to show up is the part W3C can't fix alone.
AI agents are the destination. No return click to bargain with. That's why Cloudflare just went default-block + 402 Payment Required instead of waiting on a standards body.
Open standards on the agent side are the easy half. Getting sites to show up is the part W3C can't fix alone.