# AX-SYS-09: Expose a machine-readable map of your resources

> Discovery and navigation · intermediate · AX-SYS-09

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. [agentexperience.ax — Principles of AX](https://agentexperience.ax/concepts/principles-of-ax/) — Agent Accessibility: agents must be able to navigate and discover the structure of a service without visual interpretation
2. [agents.json — WildCard AI](https://github.com/wild-card-ai/agents-json) — agents.json provides a declarative capability-specification layer at /.well-known/agents.json for structured agent traversal

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Source: Agent Experience Principles (axprinciples.com)