Agent-Ready Web
Designing a site so an autonomous agent can complete a task on it — compare, check stock, book, purchase — without a human moving a mouse.
Analogy Mental model
A restaurant with a separate counter for delivery riders. The rider doesn't sit down and read the menu; they scan, quote an order number, collect the bag, and leave in thirty seconds.
In practice What you actually do
Four moves: expose an API or MCP server so agents can query price, stock, and specification directly instead of scraping rendered pages; publish the critical attributes as structured data; remove checkout friction with one-tap payment and no CAPTCHA wall at the final step; and ship an llms.txt so an agent can orient itself without guessing the site's shape.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
When a request arrives as find a 27-inch 4K monitor under five hundred dollars, in stock today, thirty-day returns, and order it — the site that lets an agent finish fastest takes the sale and the others never see the customer. Every extra form step is a lost transaction.
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