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Author here. A few things that didn't fit in the README: The immediate trigger was realizing that robots.txt, unchanged in spirit since 1994, is now being appl
by jaspervanveen 8mo ago
Author here. A few things that didn't fit in the README:
The immediate trigger was realizing that robots.txt, unchanged in spirit since 1994, is now being applied to systems that can book your flights and empty your bank account. The mismatch felt worth writing down.
The parts I'm least certain about:
1. The filename. agents.txt has prior art (see the spec's Related Prior Art section) and some of it solves a different problem. Maybe this should live at /.well-known/agents.txt instead -- thoughts?
2. Agent identity. Right now it's self-declared strings, which is essentially an honour system. The spec flags this openly. Whether that's acceptable at v0.1 or a fatal flaw is a real question.
3. Whether this needs to exist at all -- or whether MCP server discovery effectively solves it already. I don't think it does (MCP is implementation, this is policy), but I'd love to be argued out of that.
Draft spec in the repo if you want the full picture.