Show HN: ANML – A machine-first markup language for the agentic web (IETF Draft)
Category: other
Tags: agentic-web, markup-language, ietf-draft
Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 6, Documentation: 4, Utility: 6)
ANML is a markup language designed for agentic web interactions, enabling AI agents to understand service offerings, purchase flows, and constraints in a machine-readable format. It combines concepts from structured data, state machines, and declarative APIs into a single document, which is novel for agent-oriented web services. The project is interesting as it proposes a standard for the emerging agentic web ecosystem.
Target audience: backend devs, ai engineers
Repository: https://anmlfoundation.org
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