Building Ask Ricmac: my first experiment in the agentic web stack - Richard MacManus

Over the past few months I’ve been exploring what I think of as the agentic web stack — the emerging intersection of artificial intelligence with the open web. As part of that exploration, I built a small experiment for my personal website: an AI chatbot called Ask Ricmac. Its purpose is simple: instead of searching my site manually, a visitor can ask a question and receive an AI-generated answer based on the articles I’ve written over the years.