Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / frontiersin.org

B

frontiersin.org

10/12 · 83% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 13:19 UTC in 1.7s · 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

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

Crawler access (robots.txt)

2/2 · pass

8 of 8 AI crawlers may read the site, 0 disallowed

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 862 B, 1 user-agent group
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (11 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (11 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (11 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (11 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (11 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (11 path rules), CCBot (via *) (11 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (11 path rules)
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.frontiersin.org/sitemap.xml, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/sitemap-index.xml, https://www.frontiersin.org/sitemap-article-pages-2024.xml (+7)

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

2/2 · pass

2 of 7 surfaces present (/llms.txt, /sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 200, 5.1 KB of text
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (957 B)
  • /.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 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://frontiersin.org/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.frontiersin.org/), text/html, 243 KB
  • 5,662 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals"
  • 6 external scripts, 2 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to main content About us About us Who we are Mission and values History Leadership Awards Impact and progress Frontiers' impact Our ann..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

1 JSON-LD block, Open Graph complete

  • 1 JSON-LD block: @type NewsMediaOrganization, WebSite
  • Open Graph: og:title "Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journal"; 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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