About
Standards on millions of sites start with clear narratives, open specs, and tools that reward responsible adoption.
Vision: Agent Object Model™ helps the web speak clearly to software agents — with policies and structured surfaces that keep humans in control.
Trademarks: AOM™ and Agent Object Model™ are trademarks used to identify the initiative and its reference materials.
License posture: The specification is MIT-licensed — see agentobjectmodel.org for authoritative terms.
How this started
One weekend I let a browser-controlling agent run real tasks end to end. It worked—but each flow cost serious time and tokens, and every different site would mean the same kind of friction. When I hit rate limits, I finally had room to ask why the web had no clear standard for “fewer fragile steps and less waste” for agents. Existing specs didn’t fit. I flipped the question: if the agent could redesign what it reads on the surface, what would it want? That pointed to structured JSON alongside HTML—and to AOM as the open layer sites can publish. The longer version is a personal, first-person account (written without AI drafting).
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A practical take on policy-first surfaces, structured tasks, and adoption—complementing the personal origin story above.
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