The Invisible
Web.
The internet is transitioning from human-read to machine-read. Your documentation is not ready.
By 2026, the primary consumer of your API documentation will not be a human developer. It will be an AI Agent.
Today, your documentation is built for eyeballs. It has sticky headers, complex navigation trees, cookie banners, and interactive hydration. To a human, this is a premium experience.
To an LLM, it is noise.
The Token Problem
When Claude or GPT-4 browses your docs to answer a user's question, it has a limited context window. If your page is 90% HTML boilerplate and 10% content, you are forcing the model to truncated its reasoning. The result? Hallucinations.
The Shift to "Agent-First"
We are building the infrastructure for the next decade of software distribution. CiteMap is not just a tool; it is a protocol. It defines a standard for how software should explain itself to machines.
- Structure over Style: Markdown is the lingua franca of intelligence.
- Context over Layout: Semantic relationships matter more than DOM hierarchy.
- Velocity over Visuality: Retrieval speed determines adoption.
If you don't map your territory, the agents will build their own maps. And they might leave you off them entirely.