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.

The agent-readable web changes what sites are for

jun 03 2026 thinking in public

Websites used to assume the reader was a person.

That is changing.

Sometimes the first reader will be an agent.

Someone might send their agent to understand a person, a company, a product, or a body of work before they decide whether to spend time with it themselves.

That changes what a website is for.

The human surface still matters.

It should be calm.

It should be easy to read.

It should not force someone through a maze.

But underneath that, the site can offer a richer layer for agents.

Structured summaries.

Source trails.

Related ideas.

Dates.

Boundaries.

Instructions about what not to infer.

A good site can become easier for humans and agents at the same time.

The human gets a simple path.

The agent gets enough context to understand the pattern.

That feels like a new design material.

Not louder websites.

More legible ones.

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-the-agent-readable-web-changes-what-sites-are-for/
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