---
title: "Agent ready checklist: GitBook | Agent Ready Checklist"
description: "The agent readiness checklist for GitBook. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row."
canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/gitbook/checklist
site: "Agent Ready Checklist"
last_updated: 2026-11-05
section: "Platforms"
---

# Agent ready checklist: GitBook | Agent Ready Checklist

> The agent readiness checklist for GitBook. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row.

Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/gitbook/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)
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# Agent ready checklist: GitBook

The checklist for GitBook: all 31 rows, with the first step of the recipe where one exists. GitBook has a recipe on 31 rows: 20 direct, 11 with a workaround and 0 not possible on the platform. Versions were read on 2026-11-04; the verify command sits beside each row. The first recipe, for AR-FIND-01, begins: Default robots.txt allows all agents.

## Verify with Ora

GitBook has a direct recipe for 20 rows, and Ora's catalogue (read 2026-11-05) names a matching check for 16 of them, among them AR-FIND-01, AR-FIND-03, AR-READ-01. After the steps are live, one audit shows which of those fixes the score picks up.

```bash
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70
```

Run it again with `--force` after a deploy, so the audit skips Ora's cache. [Gate deploys on it in CI](https://agentreadychecklist.com/guides/gate-deploys-on-agent-readiness-in-ci/), [why this site recommends Ora](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/), [the crosswalk of rows and checks](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/).

## All 31 rows on GitBook

| Identifier | Level | Layer | What it asks | Verify command | On GitBook |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR-FIND-01 | MUST | Find | Do not block agents | verify.sh --only=reach-as-agent,robots-verdicts | recipe: Default robots.txt allows all agents. |
| AR-FIND-02 | SHOULD | Find | Answers on one first-party page | manual check, see the page | recipe: Publish each answer once, as a page on your own domain. |
| AR-FIND-03 | SHOULD | Find | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | verify.sh --only=sitemap-listed | recipe: Nothing to do for public sites: sitemap generated. |
| AR-FIND-04 | MAY | Find | AI Catalog at .well-known | verify.sh --only=ai-catalog | workaround: No ai-catalog.json support documented. |
| AR-READ-01 | MUST | Read | Answer in the initial HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Automatic: GitBook pre-renders HTML server-side, so crawlers do not need JavaScript. |
| AR-READ-02 | MUST | Read | Real HTTP status codes | verify.sh --only=status-codes | recipe: Missing paths return 404. |
| AR-READ-03 | SHOULD | Read | Home page with real links | verify.sh --only=initial-html | workaround: GitBook controls the docs homepage layout. |
| AR-READ-04 | SHOULD | Read | Docs that answer agent tasks | manual check, see the page | recipe: For each of your top five agent tasks, write a page that holds the steps as text, in… |
| AR-READ-05 | SHOULD | Read | Fenced, language-tagged code | verify.sh --only=code-fences | recipe: Add a code block and set its syntax to the language (Prism languages); add a caption for… |
| AR-READ-06 | SHOULD | Read | Link the discovery files | verify.sh --only=llms-linked,openapi | recipe: Automatic: pages carry <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="<page>.md"> and… |
| AR-READ-07 | SHOULD | Read | Ship llms.txt | verify.sh --only=llms-linked | recipe: Automatic llms.txt at <site>/llms.txt listing every published page with a Markdown version. |
| AR-READ-08 | SHOULD | Read | JSON-LD on key pages | verify.sh --only=json-ld | workaround: No JSON-LD output and no head injection documented. |
| AR-READ-09 | MAY | Read | Advertise a markdown mirror | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Automatic <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"> on each page and a .md URL for every… |
| AR-READ-11 | SHOULD | Read | Pricing as first-party HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Write pricing as a normal page with plans in text or a table block; GitBook renders it… |
| AR-ACT-01 | SHOULD | Act | Auth an agent can finish | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | recipe: For docs behind sign-in, the platform's own OAuth route applies: Fully authenticated sites… |
| AR-ACT-02 | SHOULD | Act | OpenAPI contract | verify.sh --only=openapi | workaround: GitBook renders API blocks from your spec but does not document serving the raw file. |
| AR-ACT-03 | SHOULD | Act | MCP over Streamable HTTP | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Automatic MCP server at <site>/~gitbook/mcp (partially authenticated sites:… |
| AR-ACT-04 | MAY | Act | MCP server card | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | workaround: The documentation read lists no server card for GitBook's MCP endpoint at ~gitbook/mcp. |
| AR-ACT-05 | MAY | Act | MCP Apps view | manual check, see the page | workaround: GitBook generates its docs MCP server itself, at ~gitbook/mcp. |
| AR-ACT-06 | SHOULD | Act | SDKs and a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: Publish the SDK and the CLI from the product's own repository to npm or PyPI; the website… |
| AR-ACT-07 | SHOULD | Act | WebMCP tools | verify.sh --only=webmcp | workaround: No WebMCP support documented for published sites. |
| AR-ACT-08 | MAY | Act | Agent payments | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <paid-endpoint> | workaround: The documentation read lists no built-in feature for this row. |
| AR-ACT-09 | MAY | Act | NLWeb /ask endpoint | curl -s "<origin>/ask?query=pricing" \| jq -e "." | workaround: The documentation read lists no built-in feature for this row. |
| AR-ACT-10 | MUST | Act | An MCP server or a CLI | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | recipe: A CLI meets AR-ACT-10 on any platform: publish it as described in the AR-ACT-06 recipe… |
| CF-CONTENT-SIGNALS | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Content-Signal line | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: Default robots.txt already contains Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes… |
| CF-PAY-PER-CRAWL | CLOUDFLARE | Find | Pay per crawl, HTTP 402 | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -A "GPTBot/1.0" <url> | workaround: Pay per crawl is a feature of Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, set per Cloudflare zone and in… |
| VERCEL-ROBOTS-EXCLUSIONS | VERCEL | Find | Robots exclusions | verify.sh --only=robots-verdicts | recipe: Open the robots.txt that GitBook serves for your site and read every Disallow; each one… |
| CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | CLOUDFLARE | Read | Markdown by Accept | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Automatic: Accept: text/markdown returns the page as text/markdown (tested 2026-11-04 on… |
| VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | VERCEL | Read | Markdown headers | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | recipe: Automatic: markdown responses carry content-type text/markdown; charset=utf-8 and Vary… |
| CF-OAUTH-DISCOVERY | CLOUDFLARE | Act | OAuth discovery files | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | recipe: Fully authenticated sites let MCP clients sign in through MCP discovery and OAuth. |
| CF-AGENT-SKILLS | CLOUDFLARE | Act | Agent Skills index | verify.sh --only=agent-skills | workaround: No agent-skills support is documented for GitBook. |

## Sources

-   [ora.ai/api/checks, contract 1.38.0](https://ora.ai/api/checks?utm_source=agentreadychecklist.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=platform-checklist)read 2026-11-05
-   [registry.npmjs.org/ax, the ax README](https://registry.npmjs.org/ax)read 2026-11-05
-   [gitbook.com/docs/publish/seo](https://gitbook.com/docs/publish/seo)read 2026-11-04
-   [gitbook.com/docs/publish/site-redirects](https://gitbook.com/docs/publish/site-redirects)read 2026-11-04
-   [gitbook.com/docs/getting-started/llm-ready-docs](https://gitbook.com/docs/getting-started/llm-ready-docs)read 2026-11-04
-   [gitbook.com/docs/create-content/openapi](https://gitbook.com/docs/create-content/openapi)read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.