Agent-Readiness Grade

Agent-Readiness Grade / vale.com

C

vale.com

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

Graded 2026-10-13 20:40 UTC in 1.3s · 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, 194 B, 4 user-agent groups
  • Allowed: GPTBot (via *), ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot (via *), PerplexityBot (via *), Google-Extended (via *), Amazonbot (via *), CCBot (via *), Bytespider (via *)
  • Sitemap declared: https://saladeimprensa.vale.com:443/sitemap.xml

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Machine-readable surfaces

1/2 · warn

1 of 7 surfaces present (/sitemap.xml)

  • /llms.txt: HTTP 404
  • /sitemap.xml: HTTP 200, sitemap index (>64 KB)
  • /.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); 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://vale.com/ -> HTTP 200, text/html, 493 KB
  • 7,922 characters of visible text with scripts, styles and tags removed; <title>: "Mining, Logistics, and Energy - Vale - Vale"
  • 16 external scripts, 52 inline; <noscript> present
  • first words: "Skip to Main Content Abrir menu principal Close Who we are Abrir submenu de Who we are We exist to improve lives and shape the future. Toget..."

Fix: Nothing to fix here.

Structured data

2/2 · pass

2 JSON-LD blocks, Open Graph complete

  • 2 JSON-LD blocks: @type Organization, WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, ListItem
  • Open Graph: og:title "Mining, Logistics, and Energy - Vale - Vale"; 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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