# Are We Agent Ready? > A free audit platform that measures how ready a website is for AI agents. We score sites on three pillars — Technical Agent Readiness, Agent Task Readiness, and Recommendation Readiness — weighted against the site's actual archetype. ## Start here - [Run a free scan](https://areweagentready.com/): Enter any URL, receive your Agent Readiness Score™ and specific findings with evidence (URL, HTTP status, content). - [The Agent Readiness Framework™](https://areweagentready.com/methodology): Full methodology — archetype classification, three-pillar scoring, conditional weighting, and the shallow representative crawl we use. - [Audit catalog](https://areweagentready.com/audits): Every audit module (live + upcoming). - [Standards index](https://areweagentready.com/standards): Deep-dive explainers for every check our scanner runs. - [Industries](https://areweagentready.com/industries): Vertical-specific agent-readiness guides — software, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, travel, and more. - [Insights](https://areweagentready.com/insights): Blog posts on emerging agent-readiness standards and field reports. - [Pro plan](https://areweagentready.com/pro): Unlimited history, per-website trend tracking, multi-brand dashboards, 3 competitor comparisons per scan. ## What we check - **Technical Agent Readiness** — discoverability (robots.txt, sitemaps, Link headers), content accessibility (Markdown-for-agents / llms.txt, SSR HTML), bot access control (AI crawler directives, content-usage signals), capability discovery (.well-known, MCP, OAuth), commerce readiness (x402 / ACP / UCP signals). - **Agent Task Readiness** — whether an agent can discover and reach meaningful next actions: contact, pricing, signup, booking, demo, support, docs, checkout; plus overall CTA clarity. - **Recommendation Readiness** — business clarity, trust & proof, entity consistency, and AEO/GEO answer-readiness (structured data coverage, semantic structure, freshness, alt text, absence of AI-blocking directives). - **Agent Actionability** — Playwright-driven synthetic agent completes canonical tasks by archetype (Commerce: find product → add to cart; Lead Gen: find contact → fill form). Every click, URL, screenshot, and blocker is recorded. ## Agent standards explained In-depth explainers covering every standard our scanner evaluates. Each page includes what the standard is, why agents care, what "good" looks like, how to fix gaps, and a Frequently Asked Questions section addressing common myths and industry-specific applicability. ### Technical Agent Readiness — what we check - [/.well-known/* capability discovery](https://areweagentready.com/standards/well_known_capabilities): RFC 8615 defines /.well-known/ as a reserved namespace for site-wide metadata. Agents probe a known set: oauth-authorization-server, openid-configuration, mcp.json, agents.json, api-catalog, etc. - [Agent Skills index](https://areweagentready.com/standards/agent_skills_index): Enumerable list of discrete skills your site exposes — lighter than MCP, heavier than a raw OpenAPI blob. Path: /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json. - [Agentic commerce protocols (ACP, UCP, MPP, x402)](https://areweagentready.com/standards/commerce_protocols): Four overlapping standards that let AI agents pay and transact: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Universal Commerce Protocol, Merchant Payments Protocol, x402. - [AI bot directives in robots.txt](https://areweagentready.com/standards/ai_bot_directives): Explicit User-agent rules for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.) — whether allow or disallow. Demonstrates an intentional posture toward AI traffic. - [Cloudflare Content Signals](https://areweagentready.com/standards/content_signals): A robots.txt directive (Content-Signal: search=yes, search-ai=yes, ai-train=no) declaring how your content may be used by search, AI search answers, and AI training. - [Image alt text](https://areweagentready.com/standards/image_alt_text): Every meaningful needs descriptive alt text. Agents rely on alt to understand image content; missing alts hide product photos, screenshots, and diagrams from AI. - [llms.txt](https://areweagentready.com/standards/llms_txt): A Markdown file at /llms.txt that gives agents a curated, human-edited map of your site's most important content — distinct from a comprehensive sitemap.xml. - [Markdown content negotiation](https://areweagentready.com/standards/markdown_negotiation): When an agent sends Accept: text/markdown, return the same page's content as Markdown — stripped of layout noise, CSS, and JavaScript. - [MCP server card (.well-known/mcp.json)](https://areweagentready.com/standards/mcp_server_card): Anthropic's Model Context Protocol manifest. Makes your product natively installable in Cursor, Claude Desktop, and ChatGPT — agents can discover and call your tools without a custom integration. - [noindex / nosnippet / max-snippet blockers](https://areweagentready.com/standards/snippet_blockers): Meta robots tags (noindex, nosnippet, max-snippet:0) prevent search engines and agents from indexing/quoting your content. Sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental. - [RFC 8288 Link headers](https://areweagentready.com/standards/link_header_discovery): Send Link headers on HTML responses to point agents at related resources (sitemap, llms.txt, MCP card, OpenAPI) without requiring them to parse HTML first. - [robots.txt](https://areweagentready.com/standards/robots_txt_present): Every crawlable site should publish a robots.txt at the origin root. AI agents read it to learn which paths are allowed and which user-agents are blocked. - [Semantic HTML structure](https://areweagentready.com/standards/semantic_structure): Use

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