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The post introduces “Agents Week” by reframing the question from what an Agent Cloud should be to what agents themselves need. Unlike today’s human-oriented cloud and web, an Agent Cloud must provide agent-native primitives while also translating between existing human-designed systems and an emerging agent-shaped web. The week will explore how infrastructure, development, security, organizational access, and web interactions should evolve for agents.

Why the Existing Cloud Falls Short

  • Today’s cloud and web assume a human is monitoring and interacting with them.
  • Interfaces are built around attention, visual dashboards, clicking, reading, and human decision-making.
  • Agents have different priorities: speed, structure, reliable access, and the ability to operate continuously without fatigue or distraction.

Two Responsibilities of an Agent Cloud

  • Build an agent-native foundation with primitives designed for agents from the beginning rather than adapted from human tools.
  • Serve as a translation layer between:
    • The existing human-shaped web and infrastructure.
    • The agent-shaped systems being developed for the future.

Topics for Agents Week

The series will examine:

  • Storage, compute, and execution primitives required by agents.
  • An agentic development lifecycle, or “ADLC,” that reduces or removes humans from routine development loops.
  • Secure ways for employees and agents to access organizational systems of record and perform meaningful work.
  • The evolution of the agentic web, including discovery, access, and payments.
  • How humans and agents will work together during the transition to agent-oriented systems.

Invitation to Ask Agents Directly

The post encourages readers to ask their own agents what they need from an Agent Cloud instead of relying only on human assumptions. Suggested areas include cloud infrastructure, development processes, secure enterprise access, and web interactions, with readers invited to share their agents’ responses.

In practical terms, designing an Agent Cloud requires starting with agents’ operational needs while supporting compatibility with the human-oriented systems that still dominate today.