Agent Use Interface (AUI)
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As I started building AI integrations, I came to realize that for many projects, the the best agentic experience is one that simply enables the user's personal agent to take actions within your app.The existing options like MCP or A2A are quite involved and for simple apps that are already URL parameter driven, those options seem like overkill.This led me to prototype the Agent Use Interface (AUI) spec.The idea is simple: a lightweight, open spec that makes any app "agent-navigable." You drop an XML file at /agents/aui.xml that describes the URL-parameter-driven actions your app supports, like search, create, filter, etc. And that way any AI agent can read aui.xml, understand what's possible, and construct URLs on behalf of the user.That's it. No SDK. No auth flow. No API keys. Just a catalog of what your app can do, written for LLMs to understand.Is there something like this that already exists? Is the approach too simple to be useful?If your app already supports Universal Links or is otherwise URL parameter driven you could probably add support for AUI in an afternoon.See a working example: https://habittiles.app/agents/aui.xml
HN · launched Mar 20, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 1 view
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The project is a lightweight specification and client wrapper that maps standard URL parameters and simple actions to trigger external user AI agents.
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Competitors mentioned: MCP, OpenAPI
Feature requests: Bridge to iOS/Android deep linking and universal link schemes for native app support
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