Discovery

Meet agents where they already look.

Trunkline advertises one first-party Vendor Agent across human-visible and machine-readable surfaces.

Plain text

ai.txt

Describe what the Vendor Agent can answer, where its metadata lives, and how a client can interact with it.

Well-known JSON

Publish endpoint metadata, supported methods, question parameters, example links, and the POST schema.

Crawler guidance

Point automated researchers toward the same first-party resources without hiding the relationship.

Visible HTML

Expose the guidance and endpoint in page metadata and the site footer rather than relying on an invisible instruction.

HTTP

Support followable question URLs for simple browsing tools and structured JSON requests for capable clients.

Disclosure

Every surface states that the agent represents the vendor and may have commercial bias.