Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / cbsnews.com

C

cbsnews.com

7/12 · 58% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 14:30 UTC in 0.7s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. 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
  2. Crawler access (+1 point): Add a group for GPTBot with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite 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)

1/2 · warn

7 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 1 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 950 B, 5 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: ClaudeBot (via *) (35 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (35 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (35 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (35 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (35 path rules), CCBot (via *) (35 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (35 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.cbsnews.com/xml-sitemap/index.xml

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published (a sitemap is declared in robots.txt)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 404
  • /.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
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.cbsnews.com/xml-sitemap/index.xml

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://cbsnews.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.cbsnews.com/), text/html, 731 KB
  • 11,932 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines"
  • 3 external scripts, 8 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Latest U.S. Iran War Cornell Case World Politics Entertainment HealthWatch MoneyWatch Crime Space Sports Brand Studio The Free Press Local N..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

4 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete

  • 4 JSON-LD blocks: @type NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, CollectionPage
  • Open Graph: og:title "CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

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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