# State of the Agentic Web

> Adoption data for the agentic web (2026): AI-crawler traffic shares, standard adoption, protocol maturity and model trends. Each figure is tagged cited (primary source) or our-measurement (with method); unconfirmed third-party figures are flagged for build-time verification, never asserted as fact.
> Updated 2026-07-30. JSON: /api/state-of-the-agentic-web

## AI Crawler Traffic

- **11.48 % of observed AI-crawler requests** — [AI crawler traffic share — GPTBot](/state-of-the-agentic-web/gptbot-crawl-share-2026-05) (2026-05; _cited_; measures /crawlers). Source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- **10.25 % of observed AI-crawler requests** — [AI crawler traffic share — Bytespider](/state-of-the-agentic-web/bytespider-crawl-share-2026-05) (2026-05; _cited_; measures /crawlers). Source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- **7.01 % of observed AI-crawler requests** — [AI crawler traffic share — Applebot](/state-of-the-agentic-web/applebot-crawl-share-2026-05) (2026-05; _cited_; measures /crawlers). Source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
- **2.22 % of observed AI-crawler requests** — [AI crawler traffic share — Claude-SearchBot](/state-of-the-agentic-web/claude-searchbot-crawl-share-2026-05) (2026-05; _cited_; measures /crawlers). Source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

## Standard Adoption

- **3.8M+ domains carrying the policy** — [Content Signals policy adoption](/state-of-the-agentic-web/content-signal-adoption-2025) (2025-09; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-signals-policy/
- **~3.9 % of sites serving agents markdown** — [Markdown content-negotiation adoption](/state-of-the-agentic-web/markdown-negotiation-adoption-2026) (2026; _reported — verify at build_; measures /agent-readiness). Source: third-party ecosystem estimate — no public primary source; confirm at build
- **~0 % of top sites with a valid llms.txt** — [llms.txt adoption among top sites](/state-of-the-agentic-web/llms-txt-adoption-2026) (2026; _reported — verify at build_; measures /agent-readiness). Source: third-party ecosystem estimate — no public primary source; confirm at build
- **177 records (41 crawlers · 28 protocols · 30 models · 78 terms)** — [Agentic-web reference coverage (this Almanac)](/state-of-the-agentic-web/almanac-coverage-2026-06) (2026-06; _our measurement_; measures /). Source: direct count of data/almanac/*.json on 2026-06-23

## Protocol Maturity

- **2025-12-09 formation date; 8 platinum members** — [Agentic AI Foundation formed (neutral governance)](/state-of-the-agentic-web/aaif-formation) (2025-12; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
- **2025-11-25 spec date (JSON-RPC 2.0)** — [MCP current spec revision](/state-of-the-agentic-web/mcp-spec-version) (2025-11; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25
- **v1.0 stable specification** — [A2A reaches first stable spec](/state-of-the-agentic-web/a2a-v1) (2026; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/a2a-protocol-surpasses-150-organizations-lands-in-major-cloud-platforms-and-sees-enterprise-production-use-in-first-year
- **2025-09-10 launch date** — [RSL (Really Simple Licensing) launched](/state-of-the-agentic-web/rsl-launch) (2025-09; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://rslstandard.org/press/rsl-standard
- **2026-06-15 draft date (navigator.modelContext)** — [WebMCP W3C Community Group draft](/state-of-the-agentic-web/webmcp-draft) (2026-06; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
- **Draft EIP status; created 2025-08-13** — [ERC-8004 (trustless agents) status](/state-of-the-agentic-web/erc-8004-status) (2025-08; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-8004
- **2025-09-16 launch date; 60+ partners** — [AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol) announced](/state-of-the-agentic-web/ap2-launch) (2025-09; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-agents-to-payments-ap2-protocol
- **2025-10-14 launch date; 12 launch partners** — [Visa Trusted Agent Protocol introduced](/state-of-the-agentic-web/visa-tap-launch) (2025-10; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2025/Visa-Introduces-Trusted-Agent-Protocol-An-Ecosystem-Led-Framework-for-AI-Commerce/default.aspx
- **2026-03-18 announcement date** — [Machine Payments Protocol announced (Stripe + Tempo)](/state-of-the-agentic-web/mpp-announced) (2026-03; _cited_; measures /protocols). Source: https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
- **159.6M cumulative settled transactions counted by agenteconomy.to across the 7 chains and 18 facilitators it tracks (as of 2026-07-30; reported, not audited)** — [x402 settled transaction volume](/state-of-the-agentic-web/x402-volume) (2026-07; _reported — not audited_; measures /commerce). Source: https://agenteconomy.to — community on-chain dashboard (pseudonymously maintained, built on community Dune queries: https://github.com/realdora/agenteconomy). Read 2026-07-30: 159,604,144 cumulative settled x402 transactions and $41.1M stablecoin volume. Reported, not audited — the dashboard's own methodology warns raw counts include tests, infrastructure traffic and self-directed usage, so genuine end-user commerce is a subset.

## Frontier Model Trends

- **1M advertised context window** — [Frontier models at 1M-token context](/state-of-the-agentic-web/frontier-context-1m) (2026-06; _cited_; measures /models). Source: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/overview
- **2026-06-09 release date; 1M context, $10/$50 per Mtok** — [Claude Fable 5 released](/state-of-the-agentic-web/claude-fable-5-release) (2026-06; _cited_; measures /models). Source: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/introducing-claude-fable-5-and-claude-mythos-5
- **29 API-accessible, tool-calling models tracked** — [Tool-calling frontier models in this matrix](/state-of-the-agentic-web/tool-calling-models-tracked) (2026-07; _our measurement_; measures /models). Source: direct count of data/almanac/models.json records meeting the selection gate (API-accessible AND tool_call=true) on 2026-07-02; 30 records tracked, llama-open excluded (family-tier row, tool_call unresolved at primary source)