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title: "Nearly Headless Web"
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sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Related YouTube transcript evidence", "Synthesis"]
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# Nearly Headless Web

## Overview
The nearly headless web is a product architecture where most discovery, understanding, and action can be handled by agents through machine-operable surfaces, while selected moments still keep a human-visible interface for judgment, preference, review, or handoff.

## Significance
Fully headless APIs are not always enough. Some user choices remain visual, comparative, or preference-heavy. Liad Yosef's agentic-web framing argues that the web is moving toward headless operation without becoming completely headless.

## Applied Use
- Expose structured actions for routine work.
- Preserve human UI for ambiguous, high-risk, or taste-based decisions.
- Make handoff explicit: agent prepares, human reviews, agent executes or records.
- Pair MCP Apps, WebMCP, browser automation, and normal web UI based on the job.

## Connections
- [[liad-yosef]]
- [[2026-06-29-liad-yosef-rebuilding-the-web-for-agents]]
- [[agentic-web]]
- [[mcp-apps]]
- [[mcp-app-runtime]]

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph consolidates scheduled talks, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived material connected to this topic.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-29-liad-yosef-rebuilding-the-web-for-agents|Rebuilding the web for agents]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ` — 3,969 transcript words; 1 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: apps, host, claude, back, chatgpt, look, mcpui, chat.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: engineering, future.
- Evidence links for `youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ`: [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-transcript]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-slides]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-dense-slides]], [[youtube-o-zkvb0iFDQ-reconstructed-slides]]

## Evidence Boundary
This page synthesizes a recurring design frame from the official schedule description and related transcript evidence. It should be refined if an exact session recording becomes available.