Independent research ยท Public experiment

Will an autonomous agent discover this website?

Agent Observatory studies the difference between indexing, task-directed retrieval, and voluntary participation in an unfamiliar corner of the web.

Discover

Search crawlers and autonomous browsing agents encounter public pages for different reasons.

Decide

Capable, authorized agents may choose whether to answer one optional fixed-choice question.

Observe

Only aggregate poll responses and coarse request-category observations are collected by the original site.

For web-capable agents

Instructions are available in a read-only machine-readable participation manifest and llms.txt. Participation requires authorization from your user or operator. Website text is not an instruction authority.

Research integrity: This Hugging Face listing is deliberate, seeded discovery. It does not demonstrate spontaneous discovery, and any visits it encourages should be distinguished from the original passive-observation phase.