Concept
The agentic internet is nine layers
Web4 names nine layers — identity, graph, discovery, trust, gateway, representation, execution, commerce, audit — each a contract a stranger can read, so a system maps to layers before it writes code.
Pinned to
web4/1 — the nine-layer stack mapThe canonical source this concept is taught from. If it moves, the lesson is regenerated — teaching is pinned to code, not retyped.
On the frontier
No course teaches this concept yet — it is a named gap on the content graph, not a hole nobody sees. A gap is the roadmap, not an embarrassment: the count only falls by teaching.