Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / boston.com

D

boston.com

5/12 · 42% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-25 17:02 UTC in 0.8s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Crawler access (+2 points): Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
  2. MCP census entry (+2 points): Expose a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp (or a paid x402 route) so agents can call you, not just read you. How to fix
  3. Machine-readable surfaces (+1 point): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix

Ordered by points recoverable. Each area: 2/2 pass, 1/2 warn, 0/2 fail.

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Crawler access (robots.txt)

0/2 · fail

3 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 5 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 1.3 KB, 26 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: OAI-SearchBot (via *) (6 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (6 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (6 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.boston.com/sitemap_index.xml

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

1 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (15 KB)
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 404
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 404
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.

Readable without JavaScript

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://boston.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.boston.com/), text/html, 365 KB
  • 10,977 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Boston.com: Local breaking news, sports, weather, and things to do"
  • 25 external scripts, 44 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to Main Content The Boston Globe Boston.com Boston Magazine B-Side Open Close Menu Home Newsletters News Local News National News Polit..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph incomplete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, NewsMediaOrganization
  • Open Graph: no og:title; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: add og:title and og:description so answer engines describe you accurately.

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

0/2 · fail

Not selling to agents: no census entry, no /mcp endpoint

  • census unavailable (refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time )
  • GET /mcp -> HTTP 404: no MCP endpoint at the root

Fix: Expose a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp (or a paid x402 route) so agents can call you, not just read you.

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