Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / upwork.com

C

upwork.com

8/12 · 67% (scaled from 4 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-10-12 01:52 UTC in 0.6s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. Readable without JavaScript (+2 points): Your edge serves a challenge or error to non-browser fetchers; allowlist the AI crawlers you want (at least for the home page) or serve them a static version. How to fix
  2. MCP census entry (+1 point): Publish /.well-known/x402 with your paid routes so payment indexers can list you. 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)

2/2 · pass

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

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 9.5 KB, 13 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (259 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (259 path rules), OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Amazonbot (via *) (259 path rules), CCBot (via *) (259 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (259 path rules)
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.upwork.com/sitemap.xml

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

2/2 · pass

1 of 7 surfaces present (/llms.txt); sitemap via robots.txt

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 200, 4.9 KB of text
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 403
  • /.well-known/x402: HTTP 403
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 403
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 403
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 403
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.upwork.com/sitemap.xml

Fix: Publish one agent surface: /openapi.json, /.well-known/agent-card.json, or /.well-known/x402 if you sell to agents.

Readable without JavaScript

0/2 · fail

Home page is blocked by a bot challenge (HTTP 403)

  • GET https://upwork.com/ -> HTTP 403, text/html, 336 KB
  • <title>: "Challenge - Upwork"

Fix: Your edge serves a challenge or error to non-browser fetchers; allowlist the AI crawlers you want (at least for the home page) or serve them a static version.

Structured data

not measured

Home page returned HTTP 403 (challenge); structured data not measurable

  • GET https://upwork.com/ -> HTTP 403, text/html

Fix: Let non-browser fetchers reach the home page first.

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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