Agent readiness, explained

A score is not a certificate.

A free agent-readiness scan tells you whether your website speaks the technical standards AI agents look for. A certificate proves that an agent can actually do business with you — find your prices, your delivery fee, your booking times — and it is re-checked and revocable. Those are different questions, and only one of them is something you can show a customer.

Almost nobody is ready yet

Cloudflare scanned the 200,000 most-visited domains on the internet and published the results. The picture is early:

78%
robots.txt
Mostly written for search crawlers, not agents
4%
Content Signals
Declaring AI usage preferences in robots.txt
3.9%
Markdown negotiation
Serving text/markdown on request
under 15 sites
MCP Server Cards + API Catalogs
In the entire 200,000-domain dataset

Source: Cloudflare Radar, adoption of AI agent standards, from their scan of the top 200,000 domains.

A scan and a certificate, side by side

What does it actually check?
A free scan

Whether your site speaks the technical standards agents look for — robots.txt, sitemap, Markdown negotiation, Content Signals, MCP Server Cards, WebMCP.

A MCPHubz certificate

Whether an agent can find and use the specific things your business needs to expose — your sizes, prices, delivery fee, booking times, stock.

Who is it written for?
A free scan

A developer. It hands you a prompt to paste into a coding agent, which is genuinely useful if you have one.

A MCPHubz certificate

A business owner. It names the gap in plain language and we do the work, so you do not need to know what RFC 9727 is.

Is the result a credential?
A free scan

No. It is a self-improvement score. Nobody displays one on their homepage or sends it to a customer.

A MCPHubz certificate

Yes. A signed certificate with an embeddable badge and a scannable token that resolves to a live verification page.

Does it stay true over time?
A free scan

No. A score is a snapshot of the moment it was run. Nothing re-checks it.

A MCPHubz certificate

Yes. Re-checked weekly. If the capability breaks, the certificate lapses rather than quietly remaining a lie.

Can it be taken away?
A free scan

Not applicable — there is nothing to revoke.

A MCPHubz certificate

Yes, and that is the point. A credential that cannot be revoked is not a credential.

What does it cost?
A free scan

Nothing.

A MCPHubz certificate

The scan is free. Certification is $199 one-time for one site.

What a certificate does and does not mean

It means
  • The capabilities an agent needs for your type of business are exposed
  • They were verified on your live site, not accepted on your word
  • They are re-checked weekly, and the certificate lapses if they break
  • The claim is publicly verifiable by anyone, in one step
It does not mean
  • That your site is perfect, or ready for every possible agent
  • That you comply with any official standard — this is our certification, not ISO
  • That every inference an agent makes about your business will be correct
  • That you can stop thinking about this — agents and the standards are still moving

Common questions

Is there a free way to check if my website is agent-ready?

Yes — our own scan is free, takes about a minute, needs no signup, and scores your site against what your specific industry needs. That last part is the difference: a general check tells you whether your robots.txt exists; it cannot tell a pizza shop that it is missing its delivery fee and sizes, because it does not know you are a pizza shop.

What is the difference between an agent-readiness score and a certificate?

A score measures whether your website speaks the technical standards AI agents look for, and it is a tool for improving your own site. A certificate is a claim about what an agent can actually do with your business — find your menu, your prices, your booking times — and it is re-checked and revocable, so it means something to someone other than you.

How many websites are actually ready for AI agents?

Very few. Across the 200,000 most-visited domains, 78% have a robots.txt but only 4% declare AI usage preferences and 3.9% serve Markdown to agents. MCP Server Cards and API Catalogs together appear on fewer than 15 sites in the entire dataset. Being early here is a real advantage, and the window is open now.

Do I need an MCP server to be agent-ready?

Not necessarily, and the answer depends on your business. A restaurant needs agents to read its menu, prices and delivery details. A store needs agents to search products and complete a purchase. A clinic needs agents to book appointments. What matters is that the specific things an agent needs are exposed and verifiable — not that a particular technology is installed.

Does a certificate mean my site is fully agent-ready?

No, and we will not claim that. A certificate means the specific capabilities an agent needs for your type of business are present, verified on your live site, and re-checked weekly. It is a statement about what has been checked, not a guarantee about everything.

Find out where your own site stands

Free, about a minute, no signup. You get a score against what your industry needs, every gap named, and the exact fix for each one.