Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / elsevier.com

C

elsevier.com

8/12 · 67% (scaled from 5 measurable areas)

Graded 2026-09-30 06:11 UTC in 2.7s · 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
  2. Machine-readable surfaces (+1 point): 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. 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, 490 B, 8 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *), ClaudeBot (via *), OAI-SearchBot (via *), PerplexityBot (via *), Google-Extended (via *), Amazonbot (via *), CCBot (via *), Bytespider (via *)
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.elsevier.com/sitemaps/index.xml

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

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 403
  • /.well-known/agent-card.json: HTTP 403
  • /.well-known/mcp-registry-auth: HTTP 403
  • /openapi.json: HTTP 404
  • /ai.txt: HTTP 404
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt instead: https://www.elsevier.com/sitemaps/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

2/2 · pass

Home page is readable

  • GET https://elsevier.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://www.elsevier.com/), text/html, 354 KB
  • 6,592 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in scie"
  • 25 external scripts, 2 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to main content Unfortunately we don't fully support your browser. If you have the option to, please upgrade to a newer version or use ..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete

  • 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type WebPage, WebSite
  • Open Graph: og:title "Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision suppo"; 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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