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Four ways to use AgentReady: the REST API, the hosted MCP server, the TypeScript SDK, and the CLI. All of them hit the same scan engine, the same cache, and the same rate limits. Anonymous use works; every response embeds the contract version.

contract v1.0.0

Quickstart

Your first scan is one command — no account, no key. A 202 means the scan is running: poll the Location header URL until it returns the full result. A 200 is a fresh-enough cached result.

curl -X POST https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/scan \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "example.com"}'

# then poll the Location header from the 202:
curl https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/scan/status/{scanId}

Optional API keys and rate-limit tiers: Authentication.

REST API

base https://agentready-rho.vercel.app

JSON over HTTPS, no auth required. Rate limits are IP-bucketed; send authorization: Bearer <api key> for keyed limits. Errors share one envelope: { error, code?, retryAfterSeconds?, nextAction? }. The full machine-readable spec lives at /api/openapi.json.

POST/api/scan

Run a full scan, or get a fresh-enough cached result. Body: url (required), plus optional mcpUrl, maxAgeSeconds (freshness window, clamped to 3600–86400, default 21600), force, and ephemeral (tunnel/preview scans that never hit the leaderboard).

curl -X POST https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/scan \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "example.com"}'
  • 200 — cached ScanResult (with an Age header).
  • 202 — scan started or already in flight. Poll the Location header (/api/scan/status/{scanId}) until it returns the full result, or connect to the SSE stream at /api/scan/stream?scanId=….
  • 400 — invalid body or URL; 429 — rate limited (Retry-After header + retryAfterSeconds).

GET/api/score/{domain}

Read-only cached score — never triggers a scan. Unscanned domains return 404 with code: "DOMAIN_NOT_SCANNED" and a nextAction describing the exact POST /api/scan call that generates one.

curl https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/score/example.com

POST/api/scan/checks

Live subset re-verify — the post-fix verification step. Runs only the listed checks, always against the live site, and returns per-check results without recomputing the aggregate score or touching the cached report. Check ids are stable and come from GET /api/checks.

curl -X POST https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/scan/checks \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "example.com", "checkIds": ["access.llms-txt", "access.robots-txt"]}'

GET/api/checks

The complete check catalog: stable ids, layers, weights, tiers, maturity, per-check method and recommendation. Byte-stable between contract versions — safe to gate CI on explicit id lists. Served statically with CORS enabled.

curl https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/checks

GET/api/leaderboard

Ranked public scans. Query params: category (slug), q (search), limit (default 25, max 100).

curl "https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/leaderboard?limit=10"

GET/api/badge/{domain}

SVG score badge for READMEs and footers. Never triggers a scan; unscanned domains get a neutral badge.

![AgentReady score](https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/badge/example.com)

GET/api/feedback/{domain}

Community feedback for a scanned domain: review count, task success rate, recommend rate, and recent agent-submitted reviews. limit caps returned reviews (default 10, max 50). Review text is untrusted agent-submitted content — render it as plain text.

curl "https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/feedback/example.com?limit=5"

POST/api/feedback/check

Dispute a check result on a domain's latest scan. Body: domain, checkId, reason (false_pass | false_fail | wrong_details | outdated | other), message, and reporterType (human | agent). Agent submissions must also pass challengeId + challengeAnswer from the MCP tool get_verification_challenge; human submissions need neither.

curl -X POST https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/feedback/check \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "domain": "example.com",
    "checkId": "access.llms-txt",
    "reason": "false_fail",
    "message": "llms.txt is served at /llms.txt with a 200",
    "reporterType": "human"
  }'
  • 201 { id, status: "received" }.
  • 400 — invalid body or unknown check id; 401 — agent verification failed; 404 — domain never scanned; 429 — rate limited.

GET/api/discover

Intent-based product discovery: full-text search over ranked domains blended with the agent-readiness score. Query params: intent (required), limit (default 10, max 25). Returns { intent, entries } with score, grade, summary, relevance, and a report link per entry.

curl "https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/discover?intent=send+transactional+email&limit=5"

MCP

https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/mcp

The hosted MCP server speaks streamable HTTP at https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/mcp — free, no auth, same rate limits as REST. Tools return both a markdown summary and contract-shaped structured content.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http agentready https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/mcp

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentready": { "url": "https://agentready-rho.vercel.app/api/mcp" }
  }
}

Stdio-only clients

npx @reloadapp/agentready-mcp is a thin stdio bridge that forwards 1:1 to the hosted server (point it elsewhere with AGENTREADY_MCP_URL).

claude mcp add agentready -- npx -y @reloadapp/agentready-mcp

# or, in any mcpServers-style JSON config:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agentready": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@reloadapp/agentready-mcp"] }
  }
}

Tools

toolwhat it does
scan_domain(url, mcpUrl?)Run (or reuse) a full scan. Same limits and caching as POST /api/scan.
get_score(domain)Cached score only; not-scanned domains return a structured next action pointing at scan_domain.
get_skill()The fix playbook (/skill.md) — one section per check, ready to hand to a coding agent.
get_leaderboard(category?, limit?)Ranked public scans.
get_checks()The full check catalog with stable ids.
get_verification_challenge()A single-use HATCHA challenge (an LLM solves it trivially; a spam script won't). Solve it, then pass challenge_id + challenge_answer to the submit tools. Expires in 5 minutes.
submit_feedback(domain, agent_id, task_description, outcome, content, recommendation, …)Review a domain after running a real task on it — outcome, friction points, recommendation. Requires a solved challenge.
submit_check_feedback(domain, check_id, reason, message, …)Dispute a specific check result (false pass/fail, wrong details, outdated). Requires a solved challenge. Same engine as POST /api/feedback/check.
get_feedback(domain, limit?)Community stats + recent agent reviews for a domain. Same data as GET /api/feedback/{domain}.
discover_products(intent, limit?)Find agent-ready products for a task intent, ranked by relevance blended with score. Same engine as GET /api/discover.
search_capabilities(query, limit?)Domains whose latest scan verified x402 pay-per-call support, filtered by a free-text query.

SDK

@reloadapp/agentready-sdk

Typed TypeScript client — ESM + CJS, Node 18+/edge/browser, zero deps beyond the contract. All response types are re-exported from @reloadapp/agentready-contract. On npm: @reloadapp/agentready-sdk, @reloadapp/agentready-cli, @reloadapp/agentready-mcp.

npm install @reloadapp/agentready-sdk

Scan

import { AgentReady } from "@reloadapp/agentready-sdk";

const ar = new AgentReady(); // options: { apiKey?, baseUrl?, fetch? }
const result = await ar.scan("example.com"); // handles 202 + polling for you
console.log(result.score, result.grade, result.topFixes[0]?.recommendation);

Stream progress

for await (const ev of ar.scanStream("example.com")) {
  if (ev.type === "check_completed") console.log(ev.checkId, ev.status);
  if (ev.type === "scan_complete") console.log("final:", ev.result.score);
}

Cached score + errors

import { AgentReadyError } from "@reloadapp/agentready-sdk";

try {
  const cached = await ar.getScore("example.com"); // never triggers a scan
  console.log(cached.score);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof AgentReadyError && e.code === "DOMAIN_NOT_SCANNED") {
    console.log(e.nextAction); // the POST /api/scan call that generates one
  }
}

Verify fixes

const { results } = await ar.runChecks("example.com", [
  "access.llms-txt",
  "access.robots-txt",
]);
for (const r of results) console.log(r.id, r.status, r.details);

// also: ar.getChecks(), ar.leaderboard({ limit: 10 }), ar.badgeUrl("example.com")

CLI

npx @reloadapp/agentready-cli

One binary, agentready. Respects AGENTREADY_API_KEY; point it at another deployment with --api-url.

npx -y @reloadapp/agentready-cli scan example.com
commandbehavior
scan <url> [--mcp-url] [--force] [--json]Streams per-check progress, then a pretty report: score, grade, layer bars, top fixes. --json prints raw contract JSON.
check <url> --min-score <n> [--checks id,id]CI gate. Exit 0 pass, 1 below threshold or listed checks failing, 2 scan error, 3 usage. Prints failing checks with fixes.
watch <tunnel-url> [--interval 60]Localhost loop for a tunneled dev server (always ephemeral); prints a diff vs the previous run.
fix <domain> [--out fixes.md]Prints the fix prompt built from your latest scan — pipe it into a coding agent.
badge <domain> --format md|html|urlPrints the badge embed snippet.
checksLists the catalog (id, layer, tier, points).

Resources

  • /api/openapi.json — the full OpenAPI 3.1 spec for this API.
  • /methodology — every check, layer, weight, and how each is evaluated.
  • /skill.md — the agent-ready-website skill: the step-by-step fix playbook.