--- title: "The checklist by layer | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "All 31 rows grouped by Find, Read and Act, with the Cloudflare and Vercel checks that have no AgentReady twin, and what applies to an informational site." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Checklist" --- # The checklist by layer | Agent Ready Checklist > All 31 rows grouped by Find, Read and Act, with the Cloudflare and Vercel checks that have no AgentReady twin, and what applies to an informational site. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # The checklist by layer The checklist by layer. Find has 4 AgentReady rows, Read 10 and Act 10, 4 of them MUST. A site conforms when it meets every MUST that applies, and Act applies only to products agents act on. 7 more rows cover Cloudflare and Vercel checks that have no AgentReady twin. ## Find Can an agent reach you and tell what you publish. - [AR-FIND-01](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-find-01/)MUST. Do not block agents. Applies to every public site. - [AR-FIND-02](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-find-02/)SHOULD. Answers on one first-party page. Applies to every site with product facts, docs or support content. - [AR-FIND-03](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-find-03/)SHOULD. Sitemap listed in robots.txt. Applies to every site. - [AR-FIND-04](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-find-04/)MAY. AI Catalog at .well-known. Applies to sites that ship more than one agent-facing resource. ## Read Can it read the answer from what the server returns. - [AR-READ-01](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-01/)MUST. Answer in the initial HTML. Applies to every page an agent should read. - [AR-READ-02](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-02/)MUST. Real HTTP status codes. Applies to every site. - [AR-READ-03](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-03/)SHOULD. Home page with real links. Applies to every site. - [AR-READ-04](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-04/)SHOULD. Docs that answer agent tasks. Applies to sites with a product or API. - [AR-READ-05](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-05/)SHOULD. Fenced, language-tagged code. Applies to sites with code in docs. - [AR-READ-06](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-06/)SHOULD. Link the discovery files. Applies to sites that ship any discovery file. - [AR-READ-07](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-07/)SHOULD. Ship llms.txt. Applies to every site with more than a handful of pages. - [AR-READ-08](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-08/)SHOULD. JSON-LD on key pages. Applies to every site. - [AR-READ-09](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-09/)MAY. Advertise a markdown mirror. Applies to docs and content sites. - [AR-READ-11](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-read-11/)SHOULD. Pricing as first-party HTML. Applies to products that charge. ## Act Can it finish a task on your product. - [AR-ACT-01](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-01/)SHOULD. Auth an agent can finish. Applies to products agents act on. - [AR-ACT-02](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-02/)SHOULD. OpenAPI contract. Applies to products with a public API. - [AR-ACT-03](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-03/)SHOULD. MCP over Streamable HTTP. Applies to products agents act on. - [AR-ACT-04](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-04/)MAY. MCP server card. Applies to products with an MCP server. - [AR-ACT-05](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-05/)MAY. MCP Apps view. Applies to products with a UI and an MCP server. - [AR-ACT-06](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-06/)SHOULD. SDKs and a CLI. Applies to products agents act on. - [AR-ACT-07](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-07/)SHOULD. WebMCP tools. Applies to products with a web UI agents operate. - [AR-ACT-08](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-08/)MAY. Agent payments. Applies to products that charge. - [AR-ACT-09](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-09/)MAY. NLWeb /ask endpoint. Applies to publishers, catalogs and docs. - [AR-ACT-10](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ar-act-10/)MUST. An MCP server or a CLI. Applies to products agents act on (not informational sites). ## Cloudflare and Vercel checks No AgentReady twin, or a position that differs from the spec. - [CF-CONTENT-SIGNALS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/cf-content-signals/)CLOUDFLARE. Content-Signal line. Applies to every site that wants to state AI use terms. - [CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/cf-markdown-negotiation/)CLOUDFLARE. Markdown by Accept. Applies to content and docs sites. - [CF-PAY-PER-CRAWL](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/cf-pay-per-crawl/)CLOUDFLARE. Pay per crawl, HTTP 402. Applies to publishers on Cloudflare who sell crawl access. - [CF-OAUTH-DISCOVERY](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/cf-oauth-discovery/)CLOUDFLARE. OAuth discovery files. Applies to sites with sign-in or a gated API. - [CF-AGENT-SKILLS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/cf-agent-skills/)CLOUDFLARE. Agent Skills index. Applies to products that publish task instructions for agents. - [VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/vercel-negotiation-headers/)VERCEL. Markdown headers. Applies to sites that negotiate markdown. - [VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/vercel-robots-exclusions/)VERCEL. Robots exclusions. Applies to every site. ## Sources - [github.com/agentready-org/standard/blob/main/spec/spec.md](https://github.com/agentready-org/standard/blob/main/spec/spec.md)read 2026-11-04 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-04 - [vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents](https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents)read 2026-11-04 Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.