The Agentic Web: How AI Agents Are Shaping the Web’s Future
September 23, 2025
Berners-Lee created the web in 1990 and in 1994 founded its governing body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Although he’s stepped back from leadership at the W3C (he’s now listed as “Emeritus Director”), he’s still contributing ideas. In a design note published on W3C’s website and updated in January, Berners-Lee describes a personal AI assistant his company Inrupt is building, called “Charlie.” In an op-ed for the Financial Times in March, Berners-Lee describes Charlie as “my vision for a new interface between users and the web — the evolution from ChatGPT, Gemini, Pi and DeepSeek.”
Source: The Agentic Web: How AI Agents Are Shaping the Web’s Future – The New Stack
Agents are coming to the web already here and likely only become more significant over time.
So, what can developers do to make their content more accessible for agents as well as humans?
Here’s the new stack looks at a new W3C community group focused on this issue and a set of open protocols and projects that may form the foundation for this next evolution of the web.
