agenticweb.wiki

# The standards that let agents use the web.

One article per standard, written from the spec. And a live probe: give it a domain, get back what it publishes for agents. New here? Start with [what the agentic web is](/agentic-web/).

## The wiki

82 standards across nine steps: discover, identify, permit, read, act, coordinate, pay, present, account. Every claim sourced.

[See all articles](/map/)[Data & API](/data/)

## Live probe over MCP

Give it a domain. Get back what it publishes for agents.

```
{ "origin": "shopify.com",
  "found":    { "ucp": …, "llms-txt": … },
  "absent":   { "ard": …, "a2a": … },
  "skipped":  { "ap2": "needs-credentials" },
  "coverage": { "discover": ["llms-txt"], "act": ["ucp"] } }
```

Connect: https://agenticweb.wiki/mcp · [server card](/mcp/server-card) · tools: define, get, search, has, probe.

agenticweb.wiki is a reference for the standards that let software agents use the web: how an agent finds what a site offers, proves who it is, learns what it may do, reads, acts, coordinates with other agents, pays, shows a person the result, and is held to account. Each article is written from the primary specification with a numbered reference for every claim.

Every article is served three ways at one address: HTML, [Markdown](/protocols/mcp/index.md) and [JSON](/protocols/mcp/index.json). The dataset is on the [data page](/data/), indexed in [llms.txt](/llms.txt), and declared in the [ARD manifest](/.well-known/ard.json), which also lists the MCP server.

GET /protocols/mcp/index.json

```
{
  "id": "mcp",
  "name": "Model Context Protocol",
  "category": "act",
  "native_status": "Active open specification, current da…",
  "spec_url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/index",
  "probe": {
    "method": "POST",
    "path": "{endpoint}/mcp"
  },
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Canonical dated specification is 2026…",
      "url": "https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/index"
    }
  ]
  // …
}
```

Every article: HTML · Markdown · JSON at the same address.

## Browse by what an agent does

Nine categories, in the order an agent meets them.

[01 Discover
What is here, and where?](/category/discover/)
[02 Identify
Who is this agent? Who is this site?](/category/identify/)
[03 Permit
What may the agent do here?](/category/permit/)
[04 Read
Give me the content](/category/read/)
[05 Act
Do something for me](/category/act/)
[06 Coordinate
Talk to another agent](/category/coordinate/)
[07 Pay
Settle the bill](/category/pay/)
[08 Present
Show a human the result](/category/present/)
[09 Account
Prove what happened; be judged](/category/account/)

[All articles →](/map/)

## Useful resources

- [Agent Ready](https://agent-ready.dev/) scanner
- [Lumar Agentic Readiness Scanner](https://agentic-readiness.lumar.io/) scanner
- [Agents Welcome — Agent Protocol Atlas](https://agentswelcome.dev/protocols) tracker
- [The Agent Almanac](https://agentalmanac.org/) index
- [ardvark](https://ardvark.no/) index
- [Neuronto ARD publisher list](https://neuronto.com/ard-publishers) index

[All 17 resources](/resources/)

## Instances

- [Stripe](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/machine/x402) 2026-09-07
- [Zed editor](https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction) 2026-09-06
- [Zed](https://zed.dev/docs/ai/instructions) 2026-09-06
- [Yoast SEO (WordPress plugin, generates and maintains llms.txt)](https://yoast.com/features/llms-txt/) 2026-09-06
- [WorkOS](https://workos.com/auth.md) 2026-09-06
- [Wix (generates an llms.txt for every Wix site)](https://support.wix.com/en/article/understanding-your-sites-llmstxt-file) 2026-09-06

[All 371 instances](/instances/)

## News

- 2026-09-04 [WebMCP published as a Draft Community Group Report](/news/#item-2026-09-04-webmcp-published-as-a-draft-community-group-report)
- 2026-09-01 [IETF webbotauth working group adopts the HTTP signature draft](/news/#item-2026-09-01-ietf-webbotauth-working-group-adopts-the-http-signature-draf)
- 2026-08-26 [Agentic Resource Discovery v0.91 published](/news/#item-2026-08-26-agentic-resource-discovery-v0-91-published)
- 2026-08-25 [Universal Commerce Protocol documentation released](/news/#item-2026-08-25-universal-commerce-protocol-documentation-released)
- 2026-08-12 [IAB Tech Lab publishes ARTF v1.0](/news/#item-2026-08-12-iab-tech-lab-publishes-artf-v1-0)

[All news](/news/)

## Newsletter

Occasional updates when a standard ships, changes, or dies.