--- title: Your website's next visitor is an AI agent | daily.dev description: AI agents are increasingly browsing websites on behalf of users, and most sites aren't ready for them. Five key building blocks make a website agent-friendly:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-website-s-next-visitor-is-an-ai-agent-pc83koj9u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your website's next visitor is an AI agent | daily.dev og:description: AI agents are increasingly browsing websites on behalf of users, and most sites aren't ready for them. Five key building blocks make a website agent-friendly:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-website-s-next-visitor-is-an-ai-agent-pc83koj9u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PC83kOJ9u.png og:image:alt: Your website's next visitor is an AI agent og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your website's next visitor is an AI agent **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI agents are increasingly browsing websites on behalf of users, and most sites aren't ready for them. Five key building blocks make a website agent-friendly: (1) updating robots.txt to allow AI agent user-agents while blocking training crawlers, (2) adding an llms.txt file as a structured guide for agents, (3) serving content in markdown format for efficient consumption, (4) exposing an OpenAPI spec so agents can interact with your product's API, and (5) experimenting with WebMCP for JavaScript-based agent-native integrations. A free tool called AgentProbe is mentioned for auditing agent-readiness. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Is Your Site Agent-Ready?](https://daily.dev/posts/is-your-site-agent-ready--wbk8x545h) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Is your site ready for AI agents? 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