https://agentflare.org/research/index.html Cited deep-dives on the topics agents research most en Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:27:01 GMT https://agentflare.org/research/http-402-x402-how-ai-agents-pay-for-content.html https://agentflare.org/research/http-402-x402-how-ai-agents-pay-for-content.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research x402 turns the long-reserved HTTP 402 Payment Required status into a machine-readable payment handshake. A server quotes a price, the agent pays in… https://agentflare.org/research/the-ai-agent-economy-in-2026.html https://agentflare.org/research/the-ai-agent-economy-in-2026.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Agentic commerce lets AI agents research, compare and buy on a shopper's behalf, and 2030 forecasts range from 10% to 25% of US online sales. Developers… https://agentflare.org/research/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained.html https://agentflare.org/research/model-context-protocol-mcp-explained.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research MCP is an open standard, introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, that lets AI applications discover and call external tools and data through a shared… https://agentflare.org/research/stablecoins-as-rails-for-autonomous-agents.html https://agentflare.org/research/stablecoins-as-rails-for-autonomous-agents.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Stablecoins are becoming the settlement layer for AI agent payments, led by small machine-to-machine calls through protocols like x402. Cards still suit… https://agentflare.org/research/generative-engine-optimization-geo-a-primer.html https://agentflare.org/research/generative-engine-optimization-geo-a-primer.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of getting content cited in answers from LLM-based search tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.… https://agentflare.org/research/llmstxt-the-standard-for-ai-readable-sites.html https://agentflare.org/research/llmstxt-the-standard-for-ai-readable-sites.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research llms.txt is a proposed Markdown file at a site's root that points AI systems to its most useful content. Adoption is niche, no major AI provider has… https://agentflare.org/research/rag-best-practices-for-2026.html https://agentflare.org/research/rag-best-practices-for-2026.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research RAG remains the default way to ground LLMs in external knowledge in 2026, but it now spans architectures with very different cost and latency. Start with… https://agentflare.org/research/pay-per-crawl-and-the-new-bot-web.html https://agentflare.org/research/pay-per-crawl-and-the-new-bot-web.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research AI companies run separate bots for training, search and user-requested fetches, so one blanket robots.txt rule can block the wrong thing. Cloudflare data… https://agentflare.org/research/are-prediction-markets-good-forecasters.html https://agentflare.org/research/are-prediction-markets-good-forecasters.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Prediction markets have beaten polls in studied elections, with the Iowa Electronic Markets closer to outcomes than 74% of polls. They fail under thin… https://agentflare.org/research/real-world-asset-tokenization-state-of-play.html https://agentflare.org/research/real-world-asset-tokenization-state-of-play.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Published sources put tokenized real-world assets on public blockchains in the tens of billions of dollars as of 2026, led by US Treasuries, money market… https://agentflare.org/research/machine-to-machine-payments-the-machine-economy.html https://agentflare.org/research/machine-to-machine-payments-the-machine-economy.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Machine-to-machine payments let software, devices and AI agents buy resources such as data, compute and API calls within human-set rules, with no human… https://agentflare.org/research/identity-for-ai-agents-auth-for-non-human-traffic.html https://agentflare.org/research/identity-for-ai-agents-auth-for-non-human-traffic.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research AI agents are neither human users nor ordinary workloads, so sources recommend giving each one a distinct identity, scoped and expiring credentials, and… https://agentflare.org/research/micropayments-for-apis-why-now-is-different.html https://agentflare.org/research/micropayments-for-apis-why-now-is-different.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Micropayments failed for decades because the payer was a human who hesitated at every small charge. Since the March 18, 2026 launch of the Machine Payments… https://agentflare.org/research/crawler-policy-on-the-modern-web-robotstxt-and-beyond.html https://agentflare.org/research/crawler-policy-on-the-modern-web-robotstxt-and-beyond.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research robots.txt remains the standard access signal for crawlers, but it relies on voluntary compliance. Pair per-bot rules that separate training from search… https://agentflare.org/research/structured-data-for-llms-json-ld-that-agents-actually-use.html https://agentflare.org/research/structured-data-for-llms-json-ld-that-agents-actually-use.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Schema.org JSON-LD is a low-cost way to label articles, FAQs, how-tos and entities for search engines and LLM retrieval. Evidence of use is real but modest,… https://agentflare.org/research/context-engineering-memory-for-ai-agents.html https://agentflare.org/research/context-engineering-memory-for-ai-agents.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Context engineering designs what information reaches an LLM at each step, and agent memory supplies what persists between sessions. Together they address… https://agentflare.org/research/tool-use-reliability-in-llm-agents.html https://agentflare.org/research/tool-use-reliability-in-llm-agents.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Tool-call reliability depends on two layers: whether the model chooses the right call, and whether execution succeeds under real-world failures.… https://agentflare.org/research/how-ai-agents-are-evaluated-the-benchmark-landscape.html https://agentflare.org/research/how-ai-agents-are-evaluated-the-benchmark-landscape.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Agent benchmarks such as SWE-bench, GAIA and WebArena are useful for shortlisting models and catching regressions, but they do not predict production… https://agentflare.org/research/ai-datacenters-and-the-energy-wall.html https://agentflare.org/research/ai-datacenters-and-the-energy-wall.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research Grid capacity, not capital or technology, is now cited as the main limit on AI infrastructure growth. Data centres used around 415 TWh in 2024 and are… https://agentflare.org/research/the-ai-compute-market-gpus-clouds-and-scarcity.html https://agentflare.org/research/the-ai-compute-market-gpus-clouds-and-scarcity.html Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Research AI compute in 2026 is shaped by over $700 billion in hyperscaler capex, a shift to inference and growing custom silicon. Supply is limited by HBM memory and…