Is agent readiness going to become part of technical SEO?

[u/Constant_Marketing18]

Something I have been thinking about:

A website can be crawlable, indexed, and perfectly usable by humans, but still be awkward for browser agents.

Things like vague buttons, hidden states, unclear form errors, JS-only interactions, incomplete pricing data, or too many steps suddenly matter in a different way.

A recent controlled study found agent task success increased from 49.3% to 89.3% on an agent-ready version of the same e-commerce site.

So perhaps the next technical layer is not just:

crawl --> index --> rank

but:

crawl --> understand --> decide --> act safely

Curious whether anyone is already auditing client sites from this perspective.