AMTP: HTTP for the Agentic Web — A New Markdown-First Protocol for AI Agents

The web was built for humans. But AI agents are struggling with it. Traditional approaches — DOM parsing, headless browsers, or forcing LLMs to read raw HTML — are brittle, expensive, and token-heavy. Today, I'm open-sourcing AMTP (Agent Markdown Transfer Protocol) — a new protocol designed as HTTP for the Agentic Web. The Problem AI agents today face several major challenges when interacting with websites: Extremely high token usage when processing full HTML pages Brittle s...