Designing, refining, and maintaining agent skills at Perplexity

Perplexity's advancement in designing, refining, and maintaining agent skills at Perplexity Research marks a significant milestone in the development of AI agents that can navigate the internet and wider world. This development means that website owners can expect more sophisticated AI-powered bots to interact with their websites, potentially leading to increased AI bot traffic. As Perplexity's agent skills improve, these bots may be able to simulate more human-like behavior, making it challenging for website owners to distinguish between human and bot traffic. To prepare for this shift, website owners can take actionable steps such as monitoring their website's traffic patterns to identify potential AI bot activity, updating their llms.txt files to reflect the changing landscape of AI agents, and implementing robust bot detection and management systems to ensure that their website's content and resources are not being misused by advanced AI bots.