--- title: "Agent ready checklist: Next.js | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "The agent readiness checklist for Next.js. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/nextjs-app-router/checklist site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Platforms" --- # Agent ready checklist: Next.js | Agent Ready Checklist > The agent readiness checklist for Next.js. All 31 rows, with a verify command for each. The first step of its recipe sits beside each row. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/nextjs-app-router/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). # Agent ready checklist: Next.js The checklist for Next.js (App Router): all 31 rows, with the first step of the recipe where one exists. Next.js has a recipe on 31 rows: 29 direct, 2 with a workaround and 0 not possible on the platform. The first recipe, for AR-FIND-01, begins: In app/robots.ts return rules: \[{ userAgent: "\*", allow: "/" }\] and add a sitemap URL. ## Verify with Ora Next.js (App Router) has a direct recipe for 29 rows, and Ora's catalogue (read 2026-11-05) names a matching check for 26 of them, among them AR-FIND-01, AR-FIND-03, AR-FIND-04. 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 Next.js | Identifier | Level | Layer | What it asks | Verify command | On Next.js (App Router) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-01 | MUST | Find | Do not block agents | verify.sh --only=reach-as-agent,robots-verdicts | recipe: In app/robots.ts return rules: [{ userAgent: "*", allow: "/" }] and add a sitemap URL. | | 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: Create app/sitemap.ts exporting a default function that returns MetadataRoute.Sitemap… | | AR-FIND-04 | MAY | Find | AI Catalog at .well-known | verify.sh --only=ai-catalog | recipe: Add app/.well-known/ai-catalog.json/route.ts exporting GET that returns Response.json({… | | AR-READ-01 | MUST | Read | Answer in the initial HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Keep pages as Server Components (the App Router default) so content is in the HTML response. | | AR-READ-02 | MUST | Read | Real HTTP status codes | verify.sh --only=status-codes | recipe: Call notFound() from next/navigation when a record is missing; Next.js renders… | | AR-READ-03 | SHOULD | Read | Home page with real links | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Render the home page as a Server Component and use next/link Link components, which output… | | 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: In MDX pages write fenced blocks with a language (```ts). | | AR-READ-06 | SHOULD | Read | Link the discovery files | verify.sh --only=llms-linked,openapi | recipe: In app/layout.tsx export metadata with alternates: { types: { "text/markdown": "/index.md"… | | AR-READ-07 | SHOULD | Read | Ship llms.txt | verify.sh --only=llms-linked | recipe: Write public/llms.txt (H1, summary blockquote, link lists) or generate it in… | | AR-READ-08 | SHOULD | Read | JSON-LD on key pages | verify.sh --only=json-ld | recipe: In the page component render