AgentReady

An open standard for the agentic web — a product implements AgentReady when AI agents can use it from discovery to completion.

Status: Draft. Not yet normative. Canonical site: https://agentready.org Working draft: spec/draft.md

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What this repo is

The agentic web needs the same kind of baseline that "mobile‑ready" gave the responsive web: a clear, technical answer to "is this product usable by an agent, end to end?" AgentReady is that answer. It is built by composing existing standards — A2A, MCP, OpenAPI, OAuth, llms.txt, and others — into a single conformance surface, so products are evaluated against one bar instead of a dozen.

This repository holds the working text of the standard. The canonical surface for readers is agentready.org; this repo is for editors and contributors who want to propose changes, file errata, or reconcile drafting decisions.

Status

• v0.0.1 working draft. No requirement is normative until v1.0.0.
• Versioning follows semver. A major bump indicates a breaking change to a normative requirement.

Underlying standards

AgentReady references, rather than re‑invents, the following:

• A2A — Agent Card and capability descriptors
• Model Context Protocol
• OpenAPI 3.1
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• llms.txt
• JSON‑LD / Schema.org
• Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures + IETF draft)
• x402
• API Catalog (RFC 9727)

Contributing

• Open an issue for unclear requirements, missing surfaces, or errata.
• Pull requests should edit spec/draft.md.
• A CONTRIBUTING.md describing the editorial process is forthcoming.

License

MIT.