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

# Agent ready checklist: Squarespace | Agent Ready Checklist

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

Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/platform/squarespace/checklist
Site: Agent Ready Checklist
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05
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# Agent ready checklist: Squarespace

The checklist for Squarespace (version 7.1): all 31 rows, with the first step of the recipe where one exists. Squarespace has a recipe on 31 rows: 16 direct, 15 with a workaround and 0 not possible on the platform. The first recipe, for AR-FIND-01, begins: Settings > Crawlers: leave 'Block known artificial intelligence crawlers' unchecked.

## Verify with Ora

Squarespace (version 7.1) has a direct recipe for 16 rows, and Ora's catalogue (read 2026-11-05) names a matching check for 13 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 Squarespace

| Identifier | Level | Layer | What it asks | Verify command | On Squarespace (version 7.1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AR-FIND-01 | MUST | Find | Do not block agents | verify.sh --only=reach-as-agent,robots-verdicts | recipe: Settings > Crawlers: leave 'Block known artificial intelligence crawlers' unchecked. |
| 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 build: /sitemap.xml is automatic and squarespace.com's own robots.txt lists its… |
| AR-FIND-04 | MAY | Find | AI Catalog at .well-known | verify.sh --only=ai-catalog | workaround: No file hosting at /.well-known/. |
| AR-READ-01 | MUST | Read | Answer in the initial HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Check the published page with `curl -s https://example.com/page \| grep -c 'answer… |
| AR-READ-02 | MUST | Read | Real HTTP status codes | verify.sh --only=status-codes | recipe: Keep the 404 System Page (custom page in Not linked) and add 301s in URL Mappings, for… |
| AR-READ-03 | SHOULD | Read | Home page with real links | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Put Docs, Services and Pricing in the main navigation and footer; Squarespace uses static… |
| 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 | workaround: Add a Code block and switch Display Source on to show code as text. |
| AR-READ-06 | SHOULD | Read | Link the discovery files | verify.sh --only=llms-linked,openapi | recipe: Code Injection > Header: `<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="…">` where a… |
| AR-READ-07 | SHOULD | Read | Ship llms.txt | verify.sh --only=llms-linked | recipe: SEO/AI Visibility panel > SEO Settings > LLMS.txt tab: paste the file text, Save. |
| AR-READ-08 | SHOULD | Read | JSON-LD on key pages | verify.sh --only=json-ld | recipe: Code Injection > Header (or Page Header Code Injection per page): paste `<script… |
| AR-READ-09 | MAY | Read | Advertise a markdown mirror | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: No markdown twin and no header control. |
| AR-READ-11 | SHOULD | Read | Pricing as first-party HTML | verify.sh --only=initial-html | recipe: Use Pricing plan blocks or text; both publish as HTML text an agent can read. |
| AR-ACT-01 | SHOULD | Act | Auth an agent can finish | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | recipe: Commerce API requests authenticate with an API key or an OAuth 2.0 access token, and each… |
| AR-ACT-02 | SHOULD | Act | OpenAPI contract | verify.sh --only=openapi | workaround: Host openapi.json on your API domain and link it from the footer and llms.txt. |
| AR-ACT-03 | SHOULD | Act | MCP over Streamable HTTP | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | workaround: Squarespace's developer documentation covers the Commerce APIs and the Custom Code… |
| AR-ACT-04 | MAY | Act | MCP server card | verify.sh --only=mcp-or-cli | workaround: Squarespace's developer documentation covers the Commerce APIs and the Custom Code… |
| AR-ACT-05 | MAY | Act | MCP Apps view | manual check, see the page | workaround: Squarespace's developer documentation covers the Commerce APIs and the Custom Code… |
| 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 | recipe: Code Injection > Footer: `<script>if (document.modelContext)… |
| AR-ACT-08 | MAY | Act | Agent payments | curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" <paid-endpoint> | workaround: Squarespace's developer documentation covers the Commerce APIs and the Custom Code… |
| AR-ACT-09 | MAY | Act | NLWeb /ask endpoint | curl -s "<origin>/ask?query=pricing" \| jq -e "." | workaround: Squarespace's developer documentation covers the Commerce APIs and the Custom Code… |
| 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 | workaround: robots.txt is not editable beyond the AI crawler checkbox. |
| 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 Squarespace serves for your site and read every Disallow; each… |
| CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | CLOUDFLARE | Read | Markdown by Accept | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: Not offered. |
| VERCEL-NEGOTIATION-HEADERS | VERCEL | Read | Markdown headers | verify.sh --only=markdown-negotiation | workaround: Squarespace has no markdown negotiation setting (its documentation notes). |
| CF-OAUTH-DISCOVERY | CLOUDFLARE | Act | OAuth discovery files | verify.sh --only=oauth-metadata | workaround: No /.well-known/ hosting. |
| CF-AGENT-SKILLS | CLOUDFLARE | Act | Agent Skills index | verify.sh --only=agent-skills | workaround: No /.well-known/ hosting. |

## 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
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022347072-Request-that-AI-models-exclude-your-site](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022347072-Request-that-AI-models-exclude-your-site)read 2026-11-04
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543547-View-your-site-map](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543547-View-your-site-map)read 2026-11-04
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815908-Customize-parts-of-your-site-with-code-injection](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815908-Customize-parts-of-your-site-with-code-injection)read 2026-11-04
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205814478-Creating-a-custom-404-page](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205814478-Creating-a-custom-404-page)read 2026-11-04
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-mappings](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-mappings)read 2026-11-04
-   [support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/47434125611277-Create-an-llms-txt-file (the article needs a Squarespace sign-in to read)](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/47434125611277-Create-an-llms-txt-file)read 2026-11-04

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