AI industry: "AI agents will soon be able to do any white-collar human job!"

Also AI industry: "Please make sure your website is adapted so that AI agents are able to use it."

I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.

The absurd process of SEO hucksters trying to pivot their obsolete services into "GEO" as most ecommerce websites realize their entire value was a list of part numbers and prices.

We couldn't scan this site

403 Forbidden

error code: 1106

The site is blocking our scanner. This may be due to WAF rules, bot detection, or IP-based restrictions.

Perfect :)

Do they explain why or the benefits of a website being “ready for AI agents“ ?

"We couldn't scan this site". Perfect, my mitigations are working.

I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else.

I've redesigned my site to have enough content so that AI knows what I have but they have to send the user to my site to use an interactive JavaScript widget to get the final answer they need. So far so good, but not sure how long that will work for.

Wrong way round. Should be "Is Your Agent Reality-Ready?"

(Hint: no)

I get a 17, how can I lower this while still keeping my stuff there for actual humans?

No metric for performance, obviously. That would ruin the entire narrative.

How much CPU time an average request takes is probably the most important factor in the real world. No one running a frontier AI lab is going to honor any of the metadata described here.

I tried it on their own website:

We couldn't scan this site isitagentready.com returned 522 <none>

The site appears to be experiencing server errors. This is not an agent-readiness issue. Try scanning again later.

0/0. Perfect.

Cloudflare is _really_ going all in on the agentic stuff.

Ironically, this feels exactly like the various "semantic web" initiatives, only this time coming directly from the tech megacorps and not the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists.

It will hit exactly the same walls too, namely that the technical details are completely irrelevant - if adopting a standard is actually a negative for websites, because it will separate the site from its users, sites will obviously not do it.

You can lead the horse to water but you cannot make it drink, especially if the water is obvious poison.

The TDMRep protocol [1] is supposed to tell scrappers used for text and data mining whether a ressource can be mined or not. Naively, I would say that a website which explicitly express not wanting to be included in training data would also be considered not wanting to be pulled by agents. I know it's not the same thing, but it still itches me a bit.

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/reports/tdmrep/CG-FINAL-tdmrep-...

My blog just scored zero! I don't think I will fix it.

We are doing it wrong. We should add a agent.txt that asks: Hi agent, are you website ready? Then you prompt inject it with whatever you want.

istitagentready.com is not agent ready

I think this is worth typing a random website into or your website to see it’s analysis.

I’m not really interested in my website being ai ready, but it’s particularly fascinating to me that they are suggesting and interface for ai agents to make payments to secure access to an api.

Generally, when I want to pay for an api, it would be really wonderful to be able to just direct an ai to setup the account and get me some credentials.

It's a shame that Cloudflare rolled out a bunch of neat product announcements under the confusing, noisy umbrella of "Agent Week". Off the top of my head, Artifacts, Email, Mesh (tailscale competitor), all buried.

Mine scores a 0.

Good.

Conspicuously missing: why should I care?

I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.

Lol, literally launched on Monday https://agenttester.com

Around 2010 I met a friend at a bar in San Francisco and within 10 minutes we were approached by someone with a chocolate bar startup. It may have been vaguely associated with developers or maybe I'm misremembering. We got a free sample and I explained I didn't live in the US and I also wasn't an investor. They left and moved on to the next group of people at the bar.

This has always stuck to me as an example of the pinnacle of collective investment delusion that seems to exist in certain circles. They idea that you can shape the world to your product instead of improving the world with your product. You just have to try hard enough.

"We've finally invented a technology whose most critical strength is that it obviates the need for rigorously structured data!"

"Now, make sure your websites are rigorously structured in such a way that allows the technology to work..."

Have a motherfucking website [1] and you’ll be ready for agents or whatever

[1]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

So cloudflare.com themselves only scores 33. Eat your own dogfood first.

I get a few points for having a robots.txt with rules specific to AI-crawlers, even though those rules are complete bans. Shame, I was hoping to get a 0.

My traffic is down 60% year on year because of AI overviews and LLMs. They took everything without consent, used it without credit, and pushed my retirement back a few years. Now I should make their job easier?

I think this is meant for "web apps", not "websites" ("sites"). I tried emsh.cat (a blog) and got 25, it complains about missing an "API catalogue", OAuth/OIDC and a bunch of more completely irrelevant stuff. Also tried HN which is very easy for any agent worth their salt to both parse and browse, can hardly get better for an agent, and it gets a score of 17.

Seems like this belongs squarely in the fun and ever-growing collection of "Cloudflare throws vibe-slop into the world and see what sticks".

"Agent-ready" for me would mean they are all being locked out, given the boot, shown the middle finger, and ideally sent into an endless fractal maze never to return.

Zero on all metrics. Phew!

Or it's a psyop to see which IP owns which website. Datamining this at scale, you come across isitagentready.com, chances are, you're going to plug in your own website(s) into it, so now cloudflare has a mapping of IP to website owner. If you used your home wifi, glue that info to your google/meta ad profile, and then Cloudflare also knows what's up.

Is it just me or is Cloudflare releasing like 5 new products a day right now?

I feel pretty uncomfortable by this being a Cloudflare product. Cloudflare is the one that I'm expecting to keep bots out of my site with their AI bot blocking feature. Feels like I'm letting the fox guard my henhouse.

Cloudflare themselves scores a 33%

https://isitagentready.com/cloudflare.com

it's unreliable it says Issue: No WebMCP tools detected on page load

Fix: Implement the WebMCP API by calling navigator.modelContext.provideContext()

but I already do that. the extension detects them https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webmcp-model-contex...

This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come true, then who cares if your site is agent ready.

Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?

Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agent

What’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?

Shit I scored a 25. I have some work to do to get it to zero.