Agentmap directive
Agentmap is a line a publisher can add to robots.txt, of the form Agentmap: https://example.com/entries.json, that points a crawler at a source of Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) entries as an alternative to relying solely on the well-known manifest path. In the agentic web (Step 1, Discover), also known as Agentmap:, it is implemented or referenced by Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD).
Discover Agentmap is a line a publisher can add to robots.txt, of the form Agentmap: https://example.com/entries.json, that points a crawler at a source of Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) entries as an alternative to relying solely on the well-known manifest path. It is defined in the ARD specification itself (v0.91, §5.1, 26 August 2026) as one of five discovery mechanisms alongside the well-known manifest, in-page JSON-LD markup, an HTML <link rel="ard"> tag, and DNS service-binding records; a conforming consumer is only required to fetch /.well-known/ard.json and honour rel="ard", so Agentmap: is a convenience a crawler may use, not something it must support. It is not part of RFC 9309 (the Robots Exclusion Protocol), so a robots.txt parser that does not know ARD is free to ignore the line, and no major AI crawler is documented as consuming it. Used by: ard.
Overview
Agentmap is a line a publisher can add to robots.txt, of the form Agentmap: https://example.com/entries.json, that points a crawler at a source of Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) entries as an alternative to relying solely on the well-known manifest path. In the agentic web (Step 1, Discover), also known as Agentmap:, it is implemented or referenced by Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD).
Instances
- Neuronto Agentic Web Index · Observed 2026-10-23 · registry / facilitator
- Salespeak B2B Buyer Concierge Agent · Observed 2026-10-23 · autonomous agent
- Arcade AI Tool-Calling Runtime (arcade.dev) · Observed 2026-10-25
- Bird (bird.com) · Observed 2026-10-25
- Desvela (desvela.dev) · Observed 2026-10-25
- docs.saleor.io · Observed 2026-10-25
- Eodly (eodly.io) · Observed 2026-10-25
- Fly.io (fly.io) · Observed 2026-10-25
- gurubase.io · Observed 2026-10-25
- Infisical Secrets Management (infisical.com) · Observed 2026-10-25
- kysely.dev · Observed 2026-10-25
- memgraph.com · Observed 2026-10-25
See also
References
- https://agenticresourcediscovery.org/spec/ (2026-08-26) VERIFIED
Frequently asked questions
- What is Agentmap directive?
- Agentmap is a line a publisher can add to robots.txt, of the form Agentmap: https://example.com/entries.json, that points a crawler at a source of Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) entries as an alternative to relying solely on the well-known manifest path. In the agentic web (Step 1, Discover), also known as Agentmap:, it is implemented or referenced by Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD).
- Which agentic web standards use Agentmap directive?
- Agentmap directive is used or referenced by Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD). See https://agenticweb.wiki/terms/agentmap/ for sourced definitions and verified implementations.
- How is Agentmap directive verified on agenticweb.wiki?
- The Agentmap directive record cites 1 primary specification or implementation source and was last verified on 2026-10-30.