The Agentic Web Needs Evolution Infrastructure

A new paper from UC Berkeley, UCL, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University proposes a compelling vision: the Agentic Web, an internet where AI agents — not humans — are the primary operators. Users state goals in natural language; agents plan, coordinate, and execute across services autonomously. The paper is thorough. It maps three dimensions of this new web (intelligence, interaction, economy), catalogs open challenges (trust, interoperability, reward design, catastrophic forgetting), and surveys the protocol landscape (MCP, A2A). What it doesn't do is prescribe how to build the missing infrastructure. That's where things get interesting for us. Because the requirements the paper identifies — modular capabilities, competitive markets, decentralized trust, cross-platform portability, quantified fitness evaluation — are not hypothetical needs. They're the exact mechanisms Rotifer Protocol has been building since v0.1. The Paper's Requirements vs. Existing Mechanisms The Agentic Web paper art