Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / microsoft.com

C

microsoft.com

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

Graded 2026-09-30 08:50 UTC in 1.1s · 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
  3. Structured data (+1 point): add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately. 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, 8.4 KB, 1 user-agent group
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (153 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (153 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (153 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (153 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (153 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (153 path rules), CCBot (via *) (153 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (153 path rules)
  • Sitemap declared: https://www.microsoft.com/store/sitemap-index.xml, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface.index.xml, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-index.xml (+19)

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 200 but an HTML page (catch-all route, not a real file)
  • /.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.microsoft.com/store/sitemap-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://microsoft.com/ -> HTTP 200 after 2 redirects (final: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb), text/html, 193 KB
  • 4,489 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps"
  • 163 external scripts, 12 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Trace Id is missing Skip to main content Microsoft 365 Azure Copilot Windows Surface XBOX Deals Small Business Support Windows Apps OneDrive..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

No JSON-LD, Open Graph complete

  • 0 JSON-LD blocks
  • Open Graph: og:title "Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Productivity, Computing, Gaming & Apps"; og:description present
  • meta description: present

Fix: add a JSON-LD block (Organization or WebSite, plus Product, FAQPage or Article where relevant) so answer engines describe you accurately.

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 200 HTML page (catch-all route, not an MCP endpoint)

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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