A Customer Yelled at a Cashier Because His AI Made Something Up
An employee took the blame for a hallucination his company could not have prevented, because the store is unreachable to the machine advising its customers.
Lab Notes
Development updates, experiments, and findings from the AI Discovery Lab.
Your Customers Are Bringing an AI With Them
People are showing up with an assistant already briefed. What we shipped in v2.5.0, and the 26% we scored against our own standard.
Your WordPress Site Needs Agent Skills
What Are Agent Skills? When you install a browser extension, your browser gets new capabilities — ad blocking, password management, translation. Agent Skills are the same concept for AI assistants. They’re downloadable instruction packs that teach AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot how to work with specific services. The Rootz AI Discovery Skill […]
Conversation Mode: What New in v2.3.0
Your Website Just Learned to Have a Conversation Until now, AI agents visiting your WordPress site had two options: read the brochure (/.well-known/ai) or search for something specific (searchContent). They could discover your site and query it — but they couldn’t read it. Not really. Reading meant scraping HTML, stripping tags, guessing at structure, and […]
How a VS Code Update Revealed the Missing Layer of the Web
Last month, Visual Studio Code shipped a major update. It published a “What’s New” notification that popped up in my editor — a nice, familiar pattern. New features, new capabilities, new integrations. But it forgot to tell Claude. Claude is a core partner in VS Code. The Claude extension is one of the most-used AI […]
Early Testing: What Grok Learned About Us in 67 Seconds
Early Testing: What Grok Learned About Us in 67 Seconds One of the best ways to test the AI Discovery Standard is simple: ask an AI agent to analyze a site that implements it. So we did exactly that with Grok. The Test We gave Grok a single prompt: “Please analyze discover.rootz.global and tell me […]
Structured Data vs Scraping: How AI Learns About Your Website
The Experiment We ran a controlled test: two AI agents, same 10 questions, different data sources. Agent A used structured /.well-known/ai endpoints (4 JSON files). Agent B scraped raw HTML pages. Both tried to learn everything about a website. Then we ran the same test against three real-world sites that don’t have AI Discovery: Intel, […]
AI Discovery Lab is Live
Welcome to the AI Discovery Lab — a live development environment for the AI Discovery Standard. This site serves as both a showcase and a testbed. Every feature of the Rootz AI Discovery WordPress plugin runs here in production, with real endpoints you can query. What you can do here Inspect live endpoints — see […]