The open standard for agent readiness
AgentReady is a new community-driven, open standard designed to define what it means for a product to be ready for AI agents. It outlines protocols and conventions for agent interaction across discovery, content access, identity, and commerce without favoring any specific technology or vendor. The standard uses a flexible framework with MUST, SHOULD, and MAY requirements, adapting as new protocols emerge in the fast-moving agentic web.
- ▪AgentReady is an open, community-driven standard for enabling AI agent readiness across products.
- ▪It includes a set of requirements with stable identifiers, applicability scopes, and conformance levels (MUST, SHOULD, MAY).
- ▪The standard covers areas like discoverability, content parsing, identity, access, and commerce, allowing compliance via multiple competing protocols.
- ▪Products conform by meeting all applicable MUST requirements and documenting exceptions to SHOULD ones.
- ▪A machine-readable version of the specification is available at /spec.json.
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The open standard for agent readinessAgents are a new class of user. A growing set of protocols has emerged to serve them (MCP, A2A, x402, llms.txt, Web Bot Auth, and more). What has not emerged is a shared definition of what being ready for them means. Scanners, badges, and readiness grades are already everywhere, and none of them agree.AgentReady is the first community-driven standard for the agentic web. It is an open specification of the protocols, standards, and conventions a product should implement to be usable by AI agents, from discovery to completion. It does not promote any specific protocol or vendor, and it does not prescribe how builders should score compliance.The agentic web moves faster than any traditional standards process.
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