What options are available today?

What can a publisher actually ship right now to be chosen by an agent on behalf of a human?

Hook

If your stuff is not legible to an agent, you do not exist.

Why this question, now

The default first reader of a page is increasingly a model, not a human. The question is no longer how to rank — it is what to ship so the model picks you.

The options

Dual rendering+ open

Same URL, two tenants. Humans get the visual page; agents get a deterministic, structured projection of the same content.

Human view

Hero image, marketing copy, animated CTAs.

Agent view

Plain HTML / JSON-LD: title, claims, sources, date, action manifest.

Agent-readable summaries+ open

A short, signed, machine-first summary at a stable path. The agent quotes from this; the human reads the long-form.

Action manifests+ open

For anything transactional — booking, quoting, joining a list — expose the action as a structured manifest the agent can call without traversing your funnel.

Honest provenance+ open

Every claim attributable to a source the agent can fetch independently. Receipts beat polish.

What does NOT work+ open

Reskinning SEO copy as “GEO”. Hiding agent surfaces behind login walls. Cookie-banner mazes that block headless retrieval.

What would change our mind

Agents start preferring rich human pages over machine summaries.
A signed-summary standard fails to emerge.
Walled gardens (vendor-specific feeds) win the agent input layer.

Where this leads

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