#standards (15)

A family of plain-text conventions at well-known paths that let machine readers understand how a site or repository wants to be read — the protocol surface of the Independent Internet.

An open Markdown format at a repository's root carrying the build, test, style, and security context a coding agent needs.

An open Markdown format at a repository's root carrying the build, test, style, and security context a coding agent needs.

An early Markdown convention for declaring a project's design system to design-aware coding agents.

An early Markdown convention for declaring a project's design system to design-aware coding agents.

The Internet Engineering Task Force — the open, consensus-driven body that standardizes the internet's core protocols through the RFC series.

Data scientist and educator who proposed llms.txt, extending the agent-readable web standards from crawling to inference.

A proposed standard for a curated, LLM-shaped manifest at a site's root — telling language models what to read at inference time.

A proposed standard for a curated, LLM-shaped manifest at a site's root — telling language models what to read at inference time.

IETF Standards Track specification defining the QUERY method for HTTP — a safe, idempotent request that carries its query in the message body and returns the result of processing it.

The original machine-readable web standard: a plain-text file at a site's root telling crawlers which paths they may visit. Advisory, not enforced.

The original machine-readable web standard: a plain-text file at a site's root telling crawlers which paths they may visit. Advisory, not enforced.

The positive complement to robots.txt: an XML file declaring what URLs exist on a site and what the operator wants crawled first.

The positive complement to robots.txt: an XML file declaring what URLs exist on a site and what the operator wants crawled first.

The five agent-readable web standards differ sharply in who governs them — and that trajectory is the real story.