{
  "dataset": "glossary",
  "record": {
    "id": "agentic-web",
    "term": "Agentic Web",
    "category": "core",
    "short_def": "The web reimagined for AI agents as first-class visitors — machine-readable content, callable tools, agent identity and agent-native payments.",
    "long_def": "Where the traditional web optimized pages for human eyes and search-engine crawlers, the agentic web adds a parallel layer agents can read and act on: markdown twins, structured data, MCP/WebMCP tools, signed agent identity, and inline payment protocols.",
    "see_also": [
      "agent-experience",
      "mcp",
      "x402"
    ],
    "etymology_origin": {
      "value": null,
      "verify_status": "verify-against-primary-at-build",
      "source_hint": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web — 'agentic web' is an emerging umbrella term with no single coiner/standards body; the 2001 'Semantic Web' (Berners-Lee) is its conceptual ancestor"
    },
    "related_to": [
      "ai-agent",
      "agent-experience",
      "mcp",
      "x402",
      "ai-crawler"
    ],
    "contrast_with": "Unlike the Semantic Web, which made content machine-readable for inference, the agentic web makes the web machine-actionable — agents not only read it but call tools, prove identity and pay.",
    "example": "By May 2026, Cloudflare Radar reported AI crawlers such as GPTBot (11.48% crawl share) actively traversing the agentic web's content layer.",
    "source": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/",
    "status": "emerging",
    "why_it_matters": "The agentic web is the central entity of this Almanac — the whole readiness, audit and certification path exists to help a site become a first-class participant in it.",
    "sameAs": [],
    "bridge_entity": "agentic-web",
    "last_verified": "2026-06-15",
    "md_twin": "/glossary/agentic-web.md"
  }
}