Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / ebay.com

F

ebay.com

2/12 · 17% (scaled from 4 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 10:26 UTC in 2.2s · 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. 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
  3. 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.

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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, 24 KB, 9 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: OAI-SearchBot (210 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (216 path rules)
  • Disallowed: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Amazonbot, CCBot, Bytespider
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.ebay.com/lst/AUCTION-0-index.xml, https://www.ebay.com/lst/BROWSE-0-index.xml, https://www.ebay.com/lst/KWSRP-0-index.xml (+4)

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

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.ebay.com/lst/AUCTION-0-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

0/2 · fail

Home page is not available to a plain fetch (HTTP 403)

  • GET https://ebay.com/ -> HTTP 403 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.ebay.com/), text/html, 1.8 KB
  • <title>: "Error Page | eBay"

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; structured data not measurable

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

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

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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