[ai-control] Machine Readability Draft -01

Thom Vaughan <thom@commoncrawl.org> Fri, 24 July 2026 17:40 UTC

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Hello folks,

The -01 of the draft on machine readability has been published.

Thanks to everyone who came to the side meeting in Vienna for the discussions and for the contributions.


Mostly the biggest change is a reframing of the five properties, replacing the ladder. Parseability and interpretability are now defined as the two core, intrinsic criteria, with discoverability, actionability, and verifiability as dimensions orthogonal to them and to one another. This came directly out of the Vienna discussion.

Comments very welcome.

Cheers,
Thom

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