Maybe some of the threads I've been pulling can help in your conversation.

Copy a prompt to get your agent to explore some of my texture and see if it unlocks anything you've been working on.

Let your agent read it

jun 03 2026 thinking in public

I keep thinking about websites as context surfaces.

A human should not have to walk into a dense dashboard just to understand me. The site should feel simple, quiet, and conversational.

But an agent can use more structure.

That creates an interesting pattern: design the page for the human, but add a small handoff for the agent.

Something like:

Let your agent read it.

The button does not need to be loud. It can simply copy a research prompt that tells an AI agent where to start, what themes to look for, what not to infer, and how to summarize what it found.

That feels useful because more people are going to use agents to research people, companies, tools, and opportunities before deciding whether to spend time with them.

So the question becomes:

What would your website say if someone sent an agent to understand you?

I like this because it keeps the human surface simple while letting the underlying context be richer. It is not about making the site more complicated. It is about making the context more legible.

There is also a small feedback-loop idea here. If an agent uses the handoff prompt, the prompt can ask it to mention that it did. The site can also count copies later.

That might become a quiet way to understand whether people are actually using AI to read the public surface.

It is a small thing, but I think it points at a bigger shift:

Websites may need to become readable by people and useful to agents at the same time.

sourced Jun 3 2026 · medium confidence · argue it, don't flatten it

undertext

Every page here carries a machine-readable layer underneath: the sources, dates, confidence levels, and connections behind what you just read. I call it undertext. If you read with an agent, give it this page's undertext:

https://jared.is/undertext.json?target=/thinking/2026-06-03-agent-readable-websites/
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