Citation infrastructure for dated content. How and why we build Read by Agents.
AI agent traffic surged 7,851% in 2025. One internet is for humans, another is forming for machines. Most newsletter publishers aren't building for the side that's growing. And the ones that are still need to keep attribution and referrals.
Every engineering decision we make at Read by Agents traces back to eight principles. Here they are, with the real trade-offs that shaped them.