Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / mit.edu

C

mit.edu

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

Graded 2026-09-30 06:46 UTC in 0.9s · 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. 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
  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)

2/2 · pass

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

  • GET /robots.txt -> HTTP 200, 199 B, 1 user-agent group
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *) (10 path rules), ClaudeBot (via *) (10 path rules), OAI-SearchBot (via *) (10 path rules), PerplexityBot (via *) (10 path rules), Google-Extended (via *) (10 path rules), Amazonbot (via *) (10 path rules), CCBot (via *) (10 path rules), Bytespider (via *) (10 path rules)

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

0/2 · fail

None of the 7 machine-readable surfaces is published

  • /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

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://mit.edu/ -> HTTP 200 after 1 redirect (final: https://web.mit.edu/), text/html, 47 KB
  • 2,617 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
  • 3 external scripts, 1 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to content ↓ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Education Research Innovation Admissions + Aid Campus Life News Alumni About MIT Lif..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

1/2 · warn

No JSON-LD, Open Graph complete

  • 0 JSON-LD blocks
  • Open Graph: og:title "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)"; 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)

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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