--- title: "Guides | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "17 guides for developers: the one-day sprint, llms.txt, OpenAPI, OAuth metadata, WebMCP, a CLI on npm, a score gate in CI, schema markup and docs." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Guides" --- # Guides | Agent Ready Checklist > 17 guides for developers: the one-day sprint, llms.txt, OpenAPI, OAuth metadata, WebMCP, a CLI on npm, a score gate in CI, schema markup and docs. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides 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). # Guides 17 guides, each a job a developer does in one sitting: a one-day sprint, plain-fetch testing, server logs, llms.txt, OpenAPI, OAuth metadata, WebMCP, a CLI on npm, a score gate in CI, a re-check of one fix, schema markup and docs. Each guide ends in a command and cites its facts. **Featured: [Best AI readiness tools for 2026: builders](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/best-ai-readiness-tools-2026/)** Ora, the Verify Kit, agent-ready.dev, is-agentic.com and Cloudflare’s scanner scored on five published questions, with the command that gates a deploy. Every cell quotes the tool's own page, read 2026-11-08. ## The 17 guides - [The one-day agent-readiness sprint](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/one-day-agent-readiness-sprint/)Fix the four MUSTs first, then the SHOULDs that take minutes, in one working day, with the kit as the acceptance test. - [How to test with a plain-fetch client](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/test-with-a-plain-fetch-client/)See the page the way a fetch-only agent sees it, with curl and no JavaScript, and know what that test misses. - [How to read your server logs for agent user agents](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/read-server-logs-for-agent-user-agents/)Find real agent requests by IP range and user agent, and confirm they get 200 with the answer. - [How to handle JavaScript-only pages without a rewrite](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/javascript-only-pages-without-a-rewrite/)Get answers into the initial HTML with prerendering or a hybrid route, page by page, starting with docs and pricing. - [How to ship llms.txt and link it](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/ship-llms-txt-and-link-it/)Publish a lean described index at /llms.txt and link it from the footer or head so agents arrive by link. - [How to publish an OpenAPI file agents can find](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/publish-openapi-agents-can-find/)Serve the raw contract, link it from docs and the home page, and list it in /.well-known/api-catalog. - [How to add OAuth metadata](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/add-oauth-metadata/)Publish authorization server and protected resource metadata so an agent can start a delegated flow without reading your docs. - [How to add WebMCP to a form](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/add-webmcp-to-a-form/)Expose one real form action as a WebMCP tool, declaratively or with registerTool, behind feature detection. - [How to put a CLI on npm for your product](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/put-a-cli-on-npm/)Publish a CLI agents can run in a shell, with --json output, and name it in docs so agents find it. - [How to keep a site agent ready in CI](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/keep-a-site-agent-ready-in-ci/)Run the kit against preview deployments and fail the build on a MUST regression. - [Best AI readiness tools for 2026: builders](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/best-ai-readiness-tools-2026/)Ora, the Verify Kit, agent-ready.dev, is-agentic.com and Cloudflare’s scanner scored on five published questions, with the command that gates a deploy. - [Gate deploys on agent readiness in CI](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/gate-deploys-on-agent-readiness-in-ci/)Fail a pull request when the Ora score drops, or use the Agent Ready GitHub Action when the gate must follow the Vercel spec score. - [Re-verify one fix with Ora](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/re-verify-one-fix-with-ora/)Post a URL and the check ids for one row to Ora and read a result for each, without a full scan. - [llms.txt vs AI Catalog vs ARD in one table](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/llms-txt-vs-ai-catalog-vs-ard/)Path, format, who defines each file, the AgentReady level and the Ora checks, and which to ship first. - [Schema markup for AI: what to put on the home page](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/schema-markup-for-ai/)An Organization block, sameAs links, contact details and type breadth, with the four Ora checks that grade them. - [Make your website readable by AI agents, in order](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/make-your-website-readable-by-ai-agents/)Eight rows in the order to do them, with the crawl failure rate, a check and the platform fix for each. - [Docs for AI agents: a checklist for documentation sites](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/docs-for-ai-agents/)Six rows for a documentation site and what Mintlify, Docusaurus, GitBook and ReadMe do for each. ## 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 Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.