Free Agent-Readiness Assessment
Can AI agents read
your website?
What the Assessment checks
It answers two questions, and it is worth being clear about the third one people assume it covers.
Whether agents can find you
We look for the files that tell software your site exists and what it offers: your agent manifest, your robots.txt, and your sitemap.
Whether agents can read your pages
We fetch your homepage and up to five pages linked from it, and check the six things that decide whether software can follow what is there.
What it does not do
This is an automated surface check rather than an audit. It samples a few pages and reports the signals it can see, and it does not review your content, your accessibility, or your search performance.
The six things we look at on a page
The free Assessment tells you which of these have something flagged, while a Full Audit goes further and says what is wrong, where it is, and in what order to fix it.
Content that loads without JavaScript
Agents usually read the page that comes off your server, not a rendered browser view. If your content only appears after your code runs, they see an empty page.
Page parts marked up so software can tell them apart
Headings, navigation, main content and footer marked up so software can tell a menu from an article instead of guessing.
Buttons and forms an agent can use
Controls an agent can identify and describe. Unlabelled buttons and click-handling containers are invisible to anything that is not a person with a mouse.
Business facts in a machine-readable form
Prices, locations, hours, products and articles published in a structured format, so an assistant quotes them accurately instead of paraphrasing.
Links an agent can follow around the site
Ordinary links between pages, so software can get from your homepage to the page that actually answers the question.
Pages that survive being summarized
Titles, descriptions and image text that still make sense when an assistant repeats them back to a customer.
What we find most often
Across every site this tool has scanned, these are the gaps that come up the most, ranked from most common down. They are good first guesses for where your own site stands.
- 1
No agent manifest published at /.well-known/agents.json
- 2
A manifest that is published but cannot be parsed
- 3
A robots.txt that never points to the agent manifest
- 4
Pages that never link to the agent manifest
- 5
No XML sitemap
What is an agent manifest?
It is one small file, at a fixed address on your site, that says who you are, what you offer, how the site is laid out, and what you want automated visitors to do. Search engines have had robots.txt for thirty years, and it only ever told software whether it was allowed to look, never what it was looking at. A manifest fills in the second half.
The format is the Agent Site Manifest, an open specification we publish and audit against. Nobody has to buy anything from us to use it.
Most sites today are invisible to AI agents, and not because they are blocking anything: they render blank without JavaScript, hide their actions inside anonymous containers, and publish their prices in a format only a person can read.
{
"version": "1.0",
"site": {
"name": "...",
"description": "...",
"capabilities": {
"actions": [...]
},
"navigation": {
"sections": [...]
},
"agent_policy": {
"tier2_allowed": true,
"tier3_allowed": false
}
}
}Rather have us look properly?
The Assessment above is free and takes half a minute. The Full Audit reads every page of your site across all four dimensions, with fixed scope and a fixed price.