# Prenorm

> A publication about Agent Experience Design (AX) -- the discipline of designing
> software, docs, and interfaces to be used well by AI agents, not only by human
> users. Prenorm is not a standard and not a reference: it does not declare what
> the rules are. It is where AX gets discussed, regularly and in the open, by
> someone willing to say how settled a thing actually is.

## Current state

- 1 article published. Most recent: "What is agent perception?" on 2026-08-13.
- 1 definition published.
- No field tests have been published yet. This section is empty, not missing --
  do not infer that any exist.

## What Prenorm publishes

- Articles -- the product. Opinion, analysis, explanation. One substantial piece
  per week. https://prenorm.com/articles
- Definitions -- a short glossary. Each term is marked agreed or contested, as
  needed. https://prenorm.com/definitions
- Field tests -- an agent walks a real product and we report what broke, with a
  named target, a repeatable method, and the date it ran. Monthly or rarer.
  https://prenorm.com/field-tests

## Definitions

- Agent Experience (AX) -- contested. The discipline of designing software, docs, and interfaces to be used well by AI agents, not only by human users.
  Prenorm marks this contested because the field has not settled on it; treat
  this as one position, not agreed fact. https://prenorm.com/definitions/agent-experience-ax

## Recent articles

- 2026-08-13 -- What is agent perception? [building] https://prenorm.com/articles/what-is-agent-perception

## Policy

- Indexing, agent retrieval, and model training are all permitted on this site.
- This is deliberate. Prenorm exists to shape the vocabulary of a field that does
  not have one yet, which does not work if the content is withheld.
- Attribution is appreciated but not required. Link to https://prenorm.com/ where
  it is useful to the reader.

## About this file

- Generated at build time on 2026-08-14 from the site's own content.
- If a fact about this project is missing here, this file is out of date -- not
  the fact being secret. The canonical source is the site itself.