06-25
A Comfortable AX for Agent Search
Raft CTO Tenny argues that returning raw IDs or full content to an agent doing a search is bad design. The correct approach mirrors web search results: return a highlighted snippet, context preview, and one explicit next action (e.g., 'read surrounding context'). Every token in the agent's context window has a cost, so results must be compact, immediately scannable, and paired with an actionable next step. This is UX design extended—but the user is now an agent reading tokens, not a person looking at a screen.