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title: Agent Experience is the new User Experience
date: 2026-08-01T10:24:31+08:00
categories:
    - llms
description: Agent Experience (AX) is emerging as the new User Experience (UX). Agents are increasingly the primary consumers and operators of digital artifacts like documentation, code, software, and websites, driving the need for agent-centric design and protocols.
tags: [agents, ai-agents, user-experience, llms, software-development, model-context-protocol, ai-automation, developer-workflow]
---

Agents are increasingly the consumers of things that used to be made for humans: <!-- https://chatgpt.com/c/6a6c7803-d62c-83ec-8144-15cf74b3219c -->

- _Docs_ are increasingly for agents to _read_. E.g. [`llms.txt`](https://llmstxt.org/)
- _Code_ is increasingly for agents to _edit_. E.g. [`AGENTS.md`](https://agents.md/)
- _Tests_ are increasingly for agents to _satisfy_. E.g. [SWE-bench](https://www.swebench.com/), [GitHub repository](https://github.com/SWE-bench/SWE-bench)
- _Software_ is increasingly for agents to _operate_. E.g. `--json`, `--schema`, [`--dry-run`](https://clispec.dev/), [CLI-Anything](https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything), [AXI](https://axi.md/)
- _Websites_ are increasingly for agents to _invoke_. E.g. [WebMCP](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/webmcp)
- _Capabilities_ are increasingly for agents to _discover_. E.g. [MCP tools](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/server/tools), [MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/)
- _Procedures_ are increasingly for agents to _follow_. E.g. [`SKILL.md`](https://agentskills.io/specification), [Agent Skills](https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills)
- _Products_ are increasingly for agents to _choose_. E.g. [Universal Commerce Protocol](https://ucp.dev/)
- _Money_ is increasingly for agents to _spend_. E.g. [Agent Payments Protocol](https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2)
- _Identity_ is increasingly for agents to _prove_. E.g. [Visa Trusted Agent Protocol](https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/trusted-agent-protocol/trusted-agent-protocol-specifications/)
- _Agents_ are increasingly for agents to _delegate_ to. E.g. [A2A Agent Cards and Tasks](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/specification/)
- _Humans_ are increasingly for agents to _escalate_ to. E.g. [MCP Elicitation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/client/elicitation)

[Agent Experience](https://www.google.com/search?q=agent+experience) or AX is the new UX.

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