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agentic web
also the Agentic Web
Definition of agentic web
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: an emerging form of the Web in which AI agents interact with websites, online services, and other agents on behalf of people, requiring infrastructure for identity, delegation, permissions, transactions, transparency, and user control
- On the agentic web, a travel agent could compare flights, request authorization, and complete a booking without the user opening each website separately.
- The standards group is defining how a website should identify an agent and verify what its user authorized it to do.
Two meanings, one word
In everyday English
The Web is the interconnected system of pages, applications, and services reached through the internet.
In AI
An emerging form of the Web in which AI agents interact with websites, online services, and other agents on behalf of people, requiring infrastructure for identity…
Origin & history
Researchers used Agentic Web in 2025 for a proposed shift from human-driven browsing toward autonomous, goal-directed interactions among agents and online services. In 2026, the World Wide Web Consortium began refining a charter for an Agentic Web Working Group, bringing the phrase into web-standards discussions about agent identity, delegation, permissions, transparency, and interaction with pages and applications.
Editorial references
Sources & further reading
- Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agents↗ arXiv · 2025-07-28
- Start of refinement for a draft Agentic Web Working Group charter↗ W3C · 2026-10-02
- W3C and the State of the Web in the AI Era↗ W3C · 2026-10
- The agentic web is here↗ MIT Technology Review · 2026-11-02
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"Agentic web." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/agentic-web/. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.