Agentic Landmark · The Brief
Briefs tagged mcp in The Landmark Brief.
Most agent-ready advice collapses two different problems into one. Being cited and being usable run on different infrastructure, fail in different ways, and must be fixed in a fixed order. A map of the four-standard stack, from robots.txt to WebMCP, and why the sequence is the argument.
Google says you do not need llms.txt for Search, and it just added a Lighthouse check for it. Both are true, because they answer to different audiences. It is not a search signal; it is an agent signal, the site's way of telling a browser agent where to start. Google is now measuring both.
Most coverage reads the Stainless acquisition as a developer-tools story. It is a connectivity story. Anthropic is vertically integrating the layer that turns an API spec into the MCP servers Claude agents use to reach your catalog, inventory, loyalty, and checkout.
