There's an absurd loop at the heart of most AI agent architectures right now: Agent needs data (a research paper, an FX rate, a flight status, a CVE) Agent calls a web scraper or fires an HTTP request to a public endpoint The endpoint returns HTML designed for a human to read in a browser Agent burns tokens parsing, cleaning, and extracting the actual value Agent retries when the scraper breaks because the page layout changed We've built genuinely intelligent agents and then made them spend half their time doing remedial text processing on documents that weren't meant for them. Let me show you what the alternative looks like. The Root Cause: Wrong Layer HTTP is a Layer 7 protocol built in 1991 to serve documents to human-operated browsers. It's brilliant at that. Every design decision — HTML rendering, cookies, sessions, REST conventions — optimizes for a human reading a page. Agents don't read pages. They consume structured data.…