Cloudflare frames the agentic web around four pillars and announces PACT with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify
Cloudflare's August 6 capstone post organizes its Agents Week releases around making the internet readable, discoverable, callable and payable for agents, naming Markdown for Agents (a server-side format cutting token consumption), Kitesurf, AI Search, WebMCP, Wallets, the Monetization Gateway and Web Bot Auth as the concrete pieces. The new item is PACT (Private Access Control Tokens), announced with Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and Shopify, which lets a site anonymously vouch for a visitor — a privacy-preserving alternative to fingerprinting agents at the edge, and a rare four-vendor alignment on agent identity. Payment rails reference x402 for direct merchant settlement; note the post cites 'billions of requests' wasted re-fetching unchanged content but gives no current agent-traffic figures.
↳ Follow the thread