The Agentic Web: personal AI assistants that understand what every website can do
JnBrymn · x · 2026-11-07
The author sketches a vision of the Agentic Web, built on three combined capabilities:
- Knows everything about you: connected to email, calendar, notes, todos, and messages—with trust.
- Understands what websites can do: beyond scraping DOMs or screenshots, the assistant knows a page's capabilities, including behind-the-scenes ones, and can act and research on your behalf.
- Situationally aware: it understands what you've done on a site and responds accordingly.
Together this turns the assistant into a genuine partner—e.g., house hunting on Zillow where the agent already knows your search and drives the process. A directional essay on how agents and web infrastructure should evolve.
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