Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / vlex.com

C

vlex.com

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

Graded 2026-10-19 07:19 UTC in 0.3s · JSON · re-grade now

Top fixes

  1. 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
  2. Crawler access (+1 point): Add a group for GPTBot, Google-Extended with "Allow: /" (or drop the blanket "Disallow: /") if you want answer engines to cite you. How to fix
  3. 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)

1/2 · warn

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

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 2.6 KB, 46 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: ClaudeBot (via *) (37 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (37 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (37 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (37 path rules), CCBot (via *) (37 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (37 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, Google-Extended

Fix: Add a group for GPTBot, Google-Extended 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 403
  • /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 403
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 403

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://vlex.com/ -> HTTP 200, text/html, 65 KB
  • 6,970 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "vLex (Part of Clio) | AI Legal Research Tools for Lawyers"
  • 5 external scripts, 5 inline; <noscript> absent
  • first words: "Skip to main content Vincent Products Vincent vLex Library Docket Alarm vLex Labs Fastcase Library Customers Large Law Firms Small Law Firms..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete

  • 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type WebSite, Organization
  • Open Graph: og:title "vLex (Part of Clio) | AI Legal Research Tools for Lawyers"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

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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