Today I released a small but important update for PeakD ...unfortunately you cannot see it 😅
Content on peakd.com is now much easier for AI agents and automated tools to read and navigate properly.
PeakD is a single-page app with specific SEO optimizations. That is good for humans because the site can stay fast, interactive, and flexible. But for agents, crawlers, assistants, a single-page app creates a practical problem: if they fetch a page like a normal HTML document, they will not see the full page content.
So PeakD now has a read-only Agent API.
A direct path to public PeakD content
The new agent-friendly setup gives automated clients a cleaner way to access public Hive content shown on PeakD.
Instead of scraping the rendered app, agents and tools can use public endpoints to get json and markdown formatted content for:
- posts
- snaps
- comments
- post discussions (json only)
The goal is simple: provide a clean, structured and documented path to read public content in an agent friendly format.
If you want you can give it a try yourself:
Discussion JSON: https://peakd.com/hive-139531/@asgarth/peakd-updates-governance-improvements-signup-flow-cleanup-stronger-analytics-and-more.discussion.json
Why Markdown matters
One of the new endpoints returns posts as Markdown.
That is useful because Markdown is much easier for language models and content tools to process than a fully rendered web page. It keeps the actual writing closer to its source form, without navigation, layout, modals, scripts, and all the other things that make sense in a browser but only add noise for an agent.
For example, this should help tools that:
- summarize PeakD posts
- extract quotes or references
- index public content
- build reading lists
- compare discussions
- help authors review older work
And there is a nice side effect as well. Reading the post in markdown is way more token efficient than parsing a full HTML rendered page.
Built for discovery
This API is read-only. It is for public content access. It does not let agents vote, comment, follow, edit posts, transfer funds, change settings, or perform any authenticated action.
Those actions can still be automated, but that's not something that we must solve within PeakD. Interacting with the Hive blockchain is already pretty doable with an AI agent and I have already shared a skill and a companion tool exactly for that purpose in the past.
Why I care about this
The web is changing quickly.
More content is being discovered through AI assistants, search agents, custom automations, research tools, and personal workflows that are not just "open a browser tab and scroll." If PeakD wants Hive content to remain easy to find and understand in that environment, we need to expose public content in formats those tools can use responsibly.
This is also important for authors. If you publish on PeakD, your content should be readable by people, and also readable by the tools people increasingly use to find and work with information.
This release is one step in that direction.
Cool, but does it work?
Well, I was not 100% sure myself so I tested on a few of different tools and models using my previous post. In the next screenshot you can see 3 different models on OpenCode, Codex and pi.dev figuring out how to load the markdown content by themselves.
Feedback welcome
As usual, let me know if you notice anything odd. Or if you use agents and you actually see a difference in your day to day experience.
Awesome Update!
Thanks 🙏
This is what sets this ecosystem apart from the rest building for the future while everyone else is stuck in the present Preparing for the Agentic Web and making backend updates for AI compatibility is a massive step forward It’s quiet behind-the-scenes engineering like this that shapes the next decade of decentralized tech Incredible vision and execution as always thank you for continuously leveling up the platform 💎🙌
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Wow that's cool
Let me know if you give it a try 💪
Excellent, this is exactly the kind of information that I've been seeking, and I'm grateful to see this development. The agentic-AI web is very much here. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Totally, let me know if you give it a try.
Very nice! Hive front ends are starting to catch up with the times 😀
In general Hive development seems to have picked up... Force multiplier effect from agent based coding?
I feel like the track record of changes in our changelog had been pretty consistent for a long time.
But I agree we can do a lot more nowadays. My fear is that it may be short lived considering how the next round of DHF proposals is going.
Que buen post @asgarth! Me gusto mucho el contenido, se nota el esfuerzo. Ahí va mi voto. Seguí publicando!
improvements galore
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Thats cool.
Some things i think could be useful in the future of AI.
Default pages. Like Myspace but not in gay. What do i mean with it? Like you can make your Blog a costum Github Layer or something like that. ( We all did see at least once Ai did rape code or delete shit, real usecase). And since users find out ( or agents) what they want to communicate with each other, this would be a good way to FAFO and give users a way to research what they want ( with AI pretty doable for users, but most dont host own website).
Well and content discovery is IMO also a thing ( for AI too) to bundle content related to each other. So Hive can be used to research stuff and is not " back to start" search for a second content related.
Like you read some Tech content and the recommend is " ACTIFIT REPORT".
Awesome! This means it's now worth going all out with the info in our blogs, because we will be more easily discoverable outside of Hive. That's what true evergreen content is and if we do well then Hive becomes a place people come to for information and that's how it should have been from the beginning.
Now it's time to quit posting meaningless family photo albums and create for the masses, whether or not they use Hive... Immerse them into what you are sharing.
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