OsmanDKitay

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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The key distinction is that im not trying to reinvent the API format wheel, im building a new steering wheel for a new kind of driver the AI agent. The actual "poorly reinvented wheel" today is screen scraping and brittle DOM mani
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
If someone s goal is simply to break the interaction with agents they can certainly do that by publishing a broken manifest. But that s no different from how the web works today. There will always be a divide between those who build useful
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The way I see it the choice for websites is quickly becoming not ads vs. no ads but getting scraped for free by ai companies vs. offering a clean managed front door. Right now, when an ai scrapes a site, it bypasses the entire user experie
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
Fair point.. If a website's manifest is wrong any agent trying to use it will just get an error. The agent will learn not to trust that site and the site owner just ends up making their own features unusable. The real incentive is to b
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
I chose a single site-wide /.well-known/aura.json manifest primarily for agent efficiency. The goal is for an agent to understand the website s entire capability map with a single, predictable request, rather than having to crawl
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The Reddit example gets right to the heart of it: when a platform loses control over its data and how it makes money, it just shuts the door on open access. And that s really what aura is trying to address. If we dont figure something out t
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
That s a reallyy sharp observation and you re right it s the core challenge for the web as we know it. For any site that depends on ads hiding the UI is a complete nonstarter. The key is that aura isnt really about creating another reader
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The main difference is -llms.txt is for reading content --while aura is for performing actions -llms.txt tells an AI here is a clean, simple version of this page for you to read --Aura tells an AI here is a capability called create_post,
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
You made good points. Aura is more like a sitemap for actions than robotstxt. I just wanted to make Aura much simpler, using only plain JSON and HTTP. I think the Semantic Web was too complex for people to use. So why is now a good time for
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The current way agents interact with the web is a problem.My view isnt that we should "cater" to them but that we should define the terms of engagement before they define it for us. Right now they re using scraping. That gives sit
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
The comparison to OpenAPI is the main thing to address and you re right to ask why it isn t enough. OpenAPI is fantastic for describing a static API for a developer to read. But the web is more than that its a dynamic stateful environment b
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
You re right that not every website needs this today. My bet is that this becomes essential for any site that wants to be a verb (a place to do actions), not just a noun (a place to read content), in the emerging agent driven web. Thanks fo
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by OsmanDKitay 1y ago
You're right... Aura.json file itself is completely voluntary. A badly behaved agent can just ignore it. But this is where the model differs from robots.txt. Aura isnt the fence, it s the official map to the gates. The real enforcement
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Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions(github.com)
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