serdem1/operate.txt
operate.txt — A standard for the agentic web. Tell AI agents how to operate your website or app.
Platform-specific configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"operate.txt": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"operate.txt"
]
}
}
}Add the config above to .claude/settings.json under the mcpServers key.
Version 0.2 — March 2026 *Originated by BrandyBee* *Contact: Serhat Erdem serhat@brandybee.ai*
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We are no longer in the "chat with AI" era. We are in the era where AI agents act on your behalf — clicking buttons, filling forms, completing purchases, navigating workflows.
Claude Projects. Persistent memory. Computer use. Multi-agent orchestration. These are production features, not demos. Agents are operating on real websites, apps, and tools right now.
And when an agent lands on your website, it is blindfolded.
It reconstructs your entire interface from screenshots and DOM trees. It guesses what buttons do. It mistakes loading screens for errors. It takes wrong actions on irreversible operations. It wastes compute figuring out things you could have just told it.
`llm.txt` doesn't solve this. That's a passive "read me" file — content for LLMs to index, essentially SEO for AI. Already being gamed. Research across 300,000 domains found zero measurable impact on AI citations. Not a single major AI platform has confirmed they read it.
`operate.txt` is an "operate me" file.
It lives at yourdomain.com/operate.txt. It tells agents how your product works, how to navigate it, what actions exist, and what consequences those actions have. It's the missing layer between your interface and the agents your users are already deploying.
The same way every site has robots.txt, every site in the agentic age will need operate.txt.
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operate.txt is a behavioral contract for any system an AI agent needs to use. While the primary use case is websites and web apps, the standard applies broadly:
| System | What operate.txt tells agents | |--------|-------------------------------| | Websites & Web Apps | Screens, buttons, flows, loading states, forms, irreversible actions
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