<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Agent Experience (AX)</title><description>Practical guides on Agent Experience: making products, documentation, tools, and workflows easier for AI agents to discover, understand, use, and recover through.</description><link>https://agentexperience.tech/</link><language>en</language><item><title>An Agent Experience (AX) framework</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-experience-framework/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-experience-framework/</guid><description>A named, practical framework for Agent Experience work with AI agents: a five-part field map (orient, discover, act, collaborate, learn), a four-step method for applying it, and a rubric for taking inventory of what a product has declared.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>agent experience</category><category>foundations</category><category>framework</category><category>method</category><category>evaluation</category></item><item><title>How do you measure agent experience?</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/measure-agent-experience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/measure-agent-experience/</guid><description>A practical guide to measuring Agent Experience: what construct you are actually measuring, the four families of AX measurement, the instrumentation a workflow needs before any number means anything, and the claims a measurement cannot support.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>evaluation</category><category>measurement</category><category>instrumentation</category><category>reliability</category><category>workflows</category></item><item><title>The Open Agent-Readiness Rubric</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-readiness-rubric/</link><guid 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01 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>discovery</category><category>standards</category><category>evidence</category><category>llms.txt</category><category>geo</category></item><item><title>The state of agent-web standards</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-web-standards/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-web-standards/</guid><description>A maintained, vendor-neutral comparison of the files and protocols that claim to make a website legible to AI agents — what each one is, who is behind it, who actually reads it, and what we recommend.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category>standards</category><category>discovery</category><category>llms.txt</category><category>mcp</category><category>comparison</category></item><item><title>Agentic Resource Discovery, implemented</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agentic-resource-discovery/</link><guid 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GMT</pubDate><category>agent experience</category><category>foundations</category><category>definition</category><category>workflows</category></item><item><title>Tool descriptions are product surfaces</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/tool-descriptions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/tool-descriptions/</guid><description>How to write tool names, descriptions, and JSON schemas that help an AI agent choose correctly, and why tool text deserves review like any other interface copy.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>tools</category><category>documentation</category><category>tool selection</category><category>json schema</category></item><item><title>Make documentation legible to agents</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/make-documentation-legible/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/make-documentation-legible/</guid><description>Practical guidance for making product documentation, tool instructions, and workflows easier for AI agents to understand and use.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>documentation</category><category>discovery</category><category>tools</category></item><item><title>Build websites agents can understand</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-friendly-websites/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/agent-friendly-websites/</guid><description>A practical guide to building an agent-friendly website: semantic structure, stable journeys, crawler policy, and the content AI agents need to finish a task.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>discovery</category><category>websites</category><category>accessibility</category><category>semantic html</category><category>crawlers</category></item><item><title>AX, UX, DX, and GEO: where each 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25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>tools</category><category>tool selection</category><category>workflows</category></item><item><title>Start with workflows, not autonomy</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/start-with-workflows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/start-with-workflows/</guid><description>A practical way to decide where agentic behavior belongs in a product workflow.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>workflows</category><category>strategy</category><category>autonomy</category></item><item><title>Evaluate decisions, not just answers</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/evaluating-agent-workflows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/evaluating-agent-workflows/</guid><description>Why evaluating an AI agent workflow means scoring the decisions along the path — tool selection, input formation, stopping, and recovery — not only the 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action</category><category>recovery</category></item><item><title>Retries are product history, not a clean slate</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/retries-are-product-history/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/retries-are-product-history/</guid><description>Why hiding an AI agent&apos;s retry history creates false confidence, and how to record attempts so a team can tell recovery from clean success.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:02:14 GMT</pubDate><category>reliability</category><category>recovery</category><category>evaluation</category><category>observability</category></item><item><title>Build an evaluation loop that improves the product</title><link>https://agentexperience.tech/insights/build-a-reliable-agent-evaluation-loop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://agentexperience.tech/insights/build-a-reliable-agent-evaluation-loop/</guid><description>A practical framework for using agent workflow evaluation to drive 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