Open Protocol · v0.1

The web, for agents.

Morlock is a drop-in protocol that gives AI agents a structured, typed interface to your site — no DOM parsing, no screenshots, no Playwright.

$npm install @morlock/core

See how it works View on GitHub

The Problem

Vision Models

Screenshot the page

Expensive, slow, and degrades with complex layouts. Costs 10× more per interaction.

DOM Scraping

Parse the HTML

Fragile. Breaks on every redesign. Semantic meaning gets lost in the noise.

Browser Automation

Simulate a human

Resource-heavy and brittle. Built for testing, not production agent use.

The Solution

Two sides. One protocol.

site-owner / server.tsServer

// npm install @morlock/core
import { createMorlock } from "@morlock/core/server";

const morlock = createMorlock({
  name: "Acme Store",
  baseUrl: "https://acme.com",
  commands: {
    search: {
      description: "Search products",
      params: {
        q: { type: "string", required: true },
      },
      handler: async ({ q }) => db.search(q),
    },
  },
});

// Express / Next.js / Cloudflare / Bun
app.use(morlock.express());

agent / task.tsAgent

import { createClient } from "@morlock/core/client";

const client = createClient();

// Discovers /.well-known/morlock automatically
const site = await client.connect(
  "https://acme.com"
);

console.log(site.commands());
// → ["search", "getProduct", "addToCart"]

const results = await site.run(
  "search",
  { q: "running shoes" }
);
// → [{ id, name, price },  ...]

How It Works

Dead simple by design.

01 / INSTALL

Drop in the middleware

One npm install. One function call. Works with Express, Next.js, Cloudflare Workers, Bun, and Deno. No config files.

02 / DISCOVER

Agents find you automatically

Your manifest is served at /.well-known/morlock. Any Morlock-aware agent discovers your capabilities without being told.

03 / INTERACT

Typed commands, structured data

Agents call commands by name with typed params. You get structured results. No DOM. No screenshots. No guessing.

Positioning

How Morlock fits.

Approach	Auto-discovery	Typed interface	Zero server changes	Interactive
Morlock	✓	✓	✓	✓
DOM Scraping	✓	✗	✓	✗
llms.txt	✓	✗	✓	✗
OpenAPI / REST	✗	✓	✗	✓
MCP	✗	✓	✗	✓

Make your site agent-native.

Open protocol. MIT licensed. Built for the agentic web.

Read the docs →View the spec