Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / cliffsnotes.com

D

cliffsnotes.com

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

Graded 2026-10-04 13:32 UTC in 0.3s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Crawler access (+2 points): Add a group for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the others with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
  2. Machine-readable surfaces (+2 points): Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents. How to fix
  3. Structured data (+1 point): add og:title and og:description so answer engines describe you accurately. 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

2 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 6 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 1.2 KB, 3 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: OAI-SearchBot (via *) (29 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (29 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot, CCBot

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

Machine-readable surfaces

0/2 · fail

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 403
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 404
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 404
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 403
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404

Fix: Publish /llms.txt (a short Markdown guide to your key pages); /sitemap.xml; 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://cliffsnotes.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/), text/html, 372 KB
  • 3,523 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "CliffsNotes | CliffsNotes Study Guides | Book Summaries, Test Preparation & Home"
  • 16 external scripts, 13 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Lit Notes Study Guides Documents Q&A Ask AI Log In Sign Up Literature Notes Study Guides Documents Homework Questions Log In Sign Up Explore..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph incomplete

  • 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type WebSite, Organization
  • Open Graph: no og:title; no og:description
  • meta description: present

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

MCP census entry (index.agentexchange.work)

1/2 · warn

Exposes /mcp but is not in the census

  • 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 403 (text/html): an endpoint answers
  • Index MCP probe record: refused index.agentexchange.work: hosts on agentexchange.work cannot be graded from inside the same Cloudflare zone; every check would time

Fix: Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you.

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