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does an agent look under the mat for door keys?

the key is under the mat.

Imagines coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus zodiaci — Albrecht Dürer, 1515
fig.04 — imagines coeli septentrionales, albrecht dürer / johannes stabius, 1515. first printed star chart of the western tradition. ptolemy in one corner, the arabs in another. a contract about what the sky contained, written for the next agent who would arrive to read it.

agents are not browsers.

a browser renders. an agent decides. the decision requires a different kind of documentation than a homepage. a homepage is a performance. an agent needs a contract.

most sites perform. few contract.

the key is under the mat. most agents never look.

llms.txt: what this site is, in plain language an LLM can parse before it does anything else. not marketing copy. orientation.

agent.md: what Artiji offers, what it costs, what the payment rail is, what the agent should do next. the menu before the 402. the difference between an agent that knows what it walked into and one that guesses.

AGENTS.MD: behavioral contract. what Artiji expects from an agent acting on behalf of a human. scope, limits, what constitutes a completed transaction. what the agent is authorized to do and where it stops.

three files. three different jobs.

together they are the difference between an agent that can transact here and one that hallucinates a path through. the gap between those two outcomes is not a model problem. it is a documentation problem.

most sites have none of these files. most sites are not ready for the next five years of how software buys things. they are still building for browsers.

browsers are not the buyers anymore.

artiji.xyz has all three.

the three files · GET
# orientation — what this site is
$ curl https://artiji.xyz/llms.txt

# menu — what artiji sells, how to pay
$ curl https://artiji.xyz/agent.md

# contract — what artiji expects from your agent
$ curl https://artiji.xyz/AGENTS.md

 three files. three jobs. no SDK.
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