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Glossary · Agents and protocols

agentic web

The web as it is used by software agents rather than people: programs that fetch pages, read machine files, call tools and complete tasks on a user's behalf, and that need to know what a site permits before they act. It differs from the crawled web in that an agent acts in the moment, so it needs an answer about a site now, not an index built last month.

What agentic web means

The web as it is used by software agents rather than people: programs that fetch pages, read machine files, call tools and complete tasks on a user's behalf, and that need to know what a site permits before they act. It differs from the crawled web in that an agent acts in the moment, so it needs an answer about a site now, not an index built last month. A site can prepare for it by publishing its rules and capabilities in machine-readable form; it cannot control what an agent does with them, which is why verification and conduct records exist.

Related terms in Agents and protocols

How autonomous agents plan, remember, call tools and talk to each other, including MCP and A2A, and where each step can go wrong.

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Questions about agentic web

What is agentic web?

The web as it is used by software agents rather than people: programs that fetch pages, read machine files, call tools and complete tasks on a user's behalf, and that need to know what a site permits before they act. It differs from the crawled web in that an agent acts in the moment, so it needs an answer about a site now, not an index built last month.

What does agentic web not show or guarantee?

The web as it is used by software agents rather than people: programs that fetch pages, read machine files, call tools and complete tasks on a user's behalf, and that need to know what a site permits before they act. It differs from the crawled web in that an agent acts in the moment, so it needs an answer about a site now, not an index built last month. A site can prepare for it by publishing its rules and capabilities in machine-readable form; it cannot control what an agent does with them, which is why verification and conduct records exist.

Which area of the glossary does agentic web belong to?

Agents and protocols: How autonomous agents plan, remember, call tools and talk to each other, including MCP and A2A, and where each step can go wrong.

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