Proposed Group: Web Content Browser for AI Agents Community Group

The Web Content Browser for AI Agents Community Group has been proposed by David Hurley:

AI agents increasingly need to read and interact with web pages. The current approach – sending raw HTML or DOM snapshots to language models – is wasteful and lossy. This Community Group will develop a JSON format to represent web page content in a form optimized for consumption by AI agents and language models. One goal is to reduce token costs (through compression) while preserving semantic meaning and interactivity.

Group deliverables are expected to be a specification, schema, conformance test suite, and integration guide. The SOM Spec v1.0 is intended to serve as a starting point for discussion within the group, but is not intended to constrain the group’s discussions or decisions about future deliverables.

This group will publish Specifications.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team