Show HN: Procurement.txt – a robots.txt for AI purchasing agents

Category: other

Tags: specification, ai-agents, e-commerce, automation

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 4, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Procurement.txt is a specification for a plain-text file that provides machine-readable procurement metadata for AI purchasing agents, similar to robots.txt. It's interesting because it addresses the emerging need for structured, low-bandwidth communication between merchants and automated purchasing systems, potentially reducing LLM token usage and costs by up to 89% according to their validation.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://www.procurementtxt.org/ · Python · CC0-1.0 · 1 stars

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