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AX-SYS-09IntermediateDraft

Expose a machine-readable map of your resources

Expón un mapa legible por máquinas de tus recursos

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Provide a structured resource graph or sitemap agents can traverse, with metadata on each resource.

Why

Traversable structure beats blind crawling for reliable agent navigation. The canonical AX framework (agentexperience.ax — Agent Accessibility) requires that agents have machine-navigable structure rather than inferred layouts. Standards including agents.json (WildCard AI, at /.well-known/agents.json) and the A2A Agent Card (/.well-known/agent.json) formalise this. A machine sitemap with typed resources and explicit relations lets agents traverse your product surface without parsing visual UI.

Do

Publish a machine sitemap with types and relations.

Don't

Leave structure implicit in the UI only.

Artifact

Process artifact: publish a machine sitemap that includes resource type and relations (not just URLs), so agents traverse structure instead of crawling blind.

Citations

  1. [01]
    agentexperience.ax — Principles of AX

    Agent Accessibility: agents must be able to navigate and discover the structure of a service without visual interpretation

  2. [02]
    agents.json — WildCard AI

    agents.json provides a declarative capability-specification layer at /.well-known/agents.json for structured agent traversal