Agent Readiness — Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents?
TL;DR
16 checks measuring how well your website supports AI agents: MCP server cards, agent skills manifests, API catalogs, markdown content negotiation, and more.
Explain Simply
Right now you optimize for Google's crawler. But AI agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) need more — an MCP file describing your API tools, an agent.json listing capabilities, an API catalog of endpoints. Think of it like opening a store: you need a sign, a menu, and payment options. AI agents need the same, but in machine-readable formats.
Agent Readiness measures how prepared a website is for AI agents — not just crawlers, but agents that can take actions (buy products, book appointments, call APIs).
Based on the isitagentready.com framework (Cloudflare), 16 checks are organized into 5 categories:
1. Discoverability: robots.txt, XML sitemap, Link response headers (RFC 8288), DNS-AID (DNS for AI Discovery).
2. Content Accessibility: Markdown content negotiation — server returns markdown when receiving Accept: text/markdown.
3. Bot Access Control: AI bot rules in robots.txt, content signals (X-Robots-Tag), Web Bot Auth (.well-known/web-bot-auth.json).
4. Protocol Discovery: MCP Server Card (.well-known/mcp.json), Agent Skills (.well-known/agent.json), WebMCP, API Catalog (RFC 9727), OAuth discovery (RFC 8414), OAuth Protected Resource (RFC 9728), Auth.md.
5. Commerce: x402 payment protocol, MPP (Micropayment Protocol), UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol), ACP (Agentic Commerce Protocol) — only relevant for commerce sites.
⚡Why It Matters
AI agents are evolving from 'reading the web' to 'acting on the web.' Agent-ready websites will be directly interacted with by AI — calling APIs, using MCP tools, completing transactions. This is the next evolution after GEO: from 'being cited by AI' to 'being used by AI.'
🔍How AiSEO Checks
AiSEO checks 16 agent readiness standards: Link headers, DNS-AID, markdown negotiation, content signals, web bot auth, MCP server card, agent skills, WebMCP, API catalog, OAuth discovery, OAuth protected resource, auth.md, x402, MPP, UCP, ACP.
AiSEO Score Impact
Agent Readiness: 10 points max. Score = (checks passed / 16) × 10. All checks contribute equally — no weighting applied.
Fix Difficulty
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