Prepare your site for autonomous agents with safe actions and guardrails.
Agents read pages, extract info, click buttons, fill forms, and call APIs. They pursue goals through plan-act-observe loops and need clear affordances to stay on track.
Use ARIA roles and schema markup. Provide stable `data-*` selectors and publish **action endpoints** for critical tasks with predictable JSON responses.
Define actions with schemas, inputs, and pre/post conditions. Idempotent endpoints and clear error classes prevent loops and retries from causing damage.
Give agents narrowly scoped tokens and log every action. Apply quotas and anomaly detection to block runaway loops or scraping.
Track success rate, average steps, and token cost. Use canary tasks with known answers to detect hallucinations early.
Start with internal workflows (support triage, knowledge lookups, data entry) where risk is low and ROI is high. Then graduate to user-facing assistants with strong consent UX.