The agents.txt IETF draft just expired. Here is what happens next.

The agents.txt IETF draft just expired this morning. If you deployed it, here is what to know. What agents.txt was agents.txt was a small spec inspired by robots.txt. The idea: drop a plain-text file at /.well-known/agents.txt declaring which automated agents your site permits, what content endpoints they should hit, and what capabilities you expose. It was the simplest possible answer to "how does an AI agent figure out what to do here without scraping HTML." The draft hit the IETF...