Standards for AI agents.
Eight open standards a product can publish or follow for AI agents. For each, how many of the products we drove use it, which ones, and how to add it.
What a product publishes for agents
How an agent finds, reads and calls a product.
MCPA server that turns a product's actions into tools an agent can call.130 of 151 products: have an MCP serverWhat it is, who uses it llms.txtA Markdown map of a product's docs, written for language models.131 of 151 products: publish an llms.txtWhat it is, who uses it OpenAPIA machine-readable description of every route of an API.104 of 151 products: publish an OpenAPI documentWhat it is, who uses it
How an agent says who it is
How a product can tell a signed agent from an anonymous bot.
Web Bot AuthAn agent signs each request; a site's bot check can verify who sent it.19 of 151 products: the bot check let it throughWhat it is, who uses it Signed agentsAgents a bot-check vendor has verified, which a site can let through.10 of 13 products: let a known signed agent past their edge checkWhat it is, who uses it
What a product allows agents to do
The file where a product tells agents and crawlers where they may go.
How an agent pays
Agentic commerce: a product charges an agent per request, without a checkout.
Check if this stops agents in your product.
Free: what an agent finds in your product, and any wall in its way.