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Whether agents can crawl you, find you in the registries and searches they check, and trust what they find.

• ✓Sitemap present & freshrequired4/4

  Sitemap at https://exa.ai/sitemap.xml: 1698 entries, freshest <lastmod> 2026-07-23 (25 days ago)

  Resolved the sitemap from robots.txt or /sitemap.xml, validated XML, and checked lastmod freshness

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• ✓Brand search discoverabilityrequired4/4

  Both searches ("Exa" and "Exa agent tools") cited exa.ai: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-api-guide-for-coding-agents, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-best-practices, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-api-guide, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/openai-responses-api-with-exa, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/agent-api/overview

  Ran clean brand-name web searches and checked whether your domain is cited in the results

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• —MCP registry listingsrecommendedna

  No MCP server detected for this product

  Queried the official MCP registry, Smithery, Glama, and PulseMCP for servers matching your domain

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Whether your robots policy, bot protection, and agent guidance actively admit AI agents instead of blocking them.

• ✓robots.txt present & parseablerequired2/2

  /robots.txt parses: 1 User-agent group(s), 1 Sitemap line(s)

  Fetched /robots.txt and validated it parses as a robots policy

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• ✓AI crawler policyrequired5/5

  All 12 AI crawler user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …) are allowed at / by robots.txt

  Evaluated robots.txt groups for the major AI agent user-agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, …)

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• ✗Content Signals directivesemerging0/2

  No Content-Signal lines in robots.txt

  fix → Declare Content Signals in robots.txt (e.g. `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no`) to express AI usage preferences machine-readably.

  Looked for Content-Signal lines in robots.txt

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• ✓Agent user-agent paritybetarequired4/4

  All three UAs get HTTP 200; bot bodies are ClaudeBot 100%, GPTBot 100% of the browser response (232897 bytes)

  Compared responses served to browser and AI-agent user-agents (informational while in beta)

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• ✗agents.mdrecommended0/3

  No agents.md: https://exa.ai/agents.md → HTTP 404, https://exa.ai/AGENTS.md → HTTP 404

  fix → Add /agents.md: what agents may do on your site, key URLs, auth, rate limits, and who to contact.

  Fetched /agents.md and checked for substantive agent guidance

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Whether your pages carry machine-readable identity: structured data, llms.txt, clear copy an agent can quote.

• ✓Homepage states what you arerequired3/3

  Homepage clarity rated 5/5 — an agent can confidently say what this company does (model's one-sentence read: "Exa provides an API for AI agents to perform real-time web search, crawling, and research, offering structured outputs and token-efficient content extraction.")

  An LLM read your homepage as an agent would and rated how confidently it could say what you do

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• ✓OpenGraph / social metadatarecommended2/2

  Homepage has og:title, og:description, and og:image (twitter:card="summary_large_image" present)

  Parsed homepage og:title / og:description / og:image and twitter:card meta tags

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• ✓llms.txtrecommended4/4

  /llms.txt is valid llmstxt.org shape: H1 "Exa", 187 markdown link(s)

  Fetched /llms.txt and validated it against the llmstxt.org shape (H1, summary, curated links)

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• ✓llms-full.txtbonusrecommended2/2

  /llms-full.txt serves 1047651 chars of markdown

  Fetched /llms-full.txt and checked for substantial inline markdown content

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• ✓JSON-LD structured datarequired4/4

  3 JSON-LD block(s) on homepage and pricing page (types: WebAPI, Organization); Organization block is well-formed

  Extracted and validated application/ld+json blocks on the homepage and pricing page

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• ✓Markdown content negotiationrecommended3/3

  https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide returns markdown for `Accept: text/markdown` (content-type text/markdown)

  Requested key pages with Accept: text/markdown and probed .md twin URLs

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Whether the artifacts an agent needs to build on you — docs, API specs, SDKs, MCP servers — exist and are findable.

• ✓Developer resource discoverabilityrecommended3/3

  Search "Exa API documentation" cited your own domain: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-api-guide, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/search-api-guide-for-coding-agents, https://exa.ai/docs/reference/openapi-spec

  Searched for your brand with developer-keyword suffixes and checked which official resources are cited

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• ✗OpenAPI spec discoverablerequired0/5

  No OpenAPI spec found: checked docs-page links and /openapi.json, /openapi.yaml, /swagger.json, /api/openapi.json, /docs/openapi.json, and api-subdomain locations

  fix → Publish your OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json and link it from docs — it's the single highest-leverage artifact for agent integration.

  Probed standard OpenAPI locations and docs links for a fetchable, parseable spec

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• ✓Docs discoverablerequired4/4

  Docs found at https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide (via homepage link, 5019 chars of readable text)

  Followed homepage nav/footer links and probed /docs, /developers, docs.{domain}

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• ◐MCP server discoveryrequired2.5/5

  MCP evidence found only as a mention in llms.txt: "https://exa.ai/docs/reference/exa-mcp.md" — no well-known server card

  fix → Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describing your MCP endpoint so agents can autodiscover it. Evidence found: llms.txt.

  Probed /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, mcp.json, and docs mentions for an MCP endpoint

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• ✓npm SDKrecommended2/2

  Official npm package "exa-js" (verified via README mentions the domain): latest 2.18.1 published 2026-08-14

  Searched the npm registry for an official, domain-verified SDK package

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• ◐PyPI SDKrecommended1/2

  Official PyPI package "exa" (verified via repository under the exa GitHub org (https://github.com/exa-analytics/exa/issues)) but latest 0.5.26 is stale — published 2020-08-25, over 18 months ago

  fix → Publish a fresh release of "exa" — agents treat SDKs untouched for 18+ months as abandoned.

  Searched PyPI for an official, domain-verified SDK package

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Whether your specs, docs, and tools are complete and descriptive enough for an agent to use them without guessing.

• —OpenAPI validity & qualityrecommendedna

  No OpenAPI spec found — nothing to lint

  Linted the spec: descriptions, operationIds, securitySchemes, servers

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• ✓Docs qualityrecommended2.4/3

  Docs at https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide scored clarity 4/5, completeness 3/5, runnable examples 5/5, agent-friendliness 4/5 (mean 4.0/5)

  An LLM rated your docs for clarity, completeness, runnable examples, and agent-friendliness

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• ✓Quickstart / getting startedrecommended2/2

  Quickstart found: https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide#human-quickstart (linked from https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide) returns 200 with a code block

  Looked for a quickstart/getting-started guide containing code blocks

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• —MCP tool qualityrecommendedna

  No tools listed by the MCP endpoint — nothing to lint

  Linted listed tools for descriptions, typed input schemas, and naming

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Response hygiene, TLS and redirect discipline, and security contact channels agents depend on at runtime.

• ✓TLS & redirect hygienerequired2/2

  http://exa.ai/ upgrades to https in 1 hop(s), 1 redirect(s) total, final HTTP 200; HSTS present

  Checked http→https redirect behavior, chain length, and TLS health

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• ✓Response speed & weightrequired1/1

  Homepage TTFB 55ms, payload 227KB, Content-Encoding: br

  Measured homepage TTFB, payload size, and compression

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• ✗security.txtrecommended0/1

  https://exa.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned HTTP 404

  fix → Publish RFC 9116 /.well-known/security.txt with a Contact and a future Expires.

  Fetched /.well-known/security.txt and validated Contact + Expires

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Whether agents can discover your auth model machine-readably (OAuth metadata) and follow documented steps to credentials.

• ✗OAuth authorization server metadatarecommended0/3

  Neither /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server nor /.well-known/openid-configuration resolved (HTTP 404 / HTTP 404)

  fix → Serve RFC 8414 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server with PKCE (S256) and a registration_endpoint so agents can self-onboard.

  Fetched /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server (and openid-configuration fallback)

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• ✗OAuth protected resource metadatarecommended0/2

  No RFC 9728 metadata: https://exa.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource → HTTP 404

  fix → Serve RFC 9728 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource naming your authorization servers so agents can discover how to authenticate.

  Fetched /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource

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• ✗Auth documentationrecommended0/2

  Auth docs link https://dashboard.exa.ai/api-keys on https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide returned HTTP 429, and /auth.md is absent

  fix → Document auth end-to-end (key creation → header format → example call), or ship /auth.md.

  Looked for /auth.md or an authentication docs page with code examples

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Whether pricing is discoverable and machine-readable, and whether you support agent payment protocols.

• ✓Pricing discoverablerequired5/5

  Pricing page found at https://exa.ai/pricing (via homepage link) with legible price signals ("$120 in credits per yearGet st").

  Followed nav/footer links and probed /pricing for a page with legible price signals

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• ✓Machine-readable pricingrecommended5/5

  LLM extracted 6 numerically-priced plan(s) from https://exa.ai/pricing at confidence 0.90: Starter USD 0/month; Developer (no listed price); Enterprise (contact sales); Search USD 7/1k requests; Agent USD 0.012/run; Contents USD 1/1k pages per content type; Deep Search USD 12/1k requests; Monitors USD 15/1k requests.

  Looked for Offer JSON-LD, then had an LLM attempt structured extraction of your plans

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• ✗x402 payment supportbonusrecommended0/2

  /.well-known/x402 returned HTTP 404. No x402 support detected (bonus check — absence costs nothing).

  fix → Support x402: serve payment requirements at /.well-known/x402, or answer unauthenticated API calls with HTTP 402 plus an x402 payment-requirements payload (x402Version, accepts[]).

  Probed /.well-known/x402 and API endpoints for HTTP 402 payment-required envelopes

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• ✗AP2 readinessemerging0/1

  No AP2 hints found — scanned llms.txt, docs page (https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide); /.well-known/ap2 returned HTTP 404.

  fix → Adopt AP2 to accept delegated agent payments — see https://ap2-protocol.org.

  Scanned fetched artifacts and well-known paths for AP2 hints

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• ✗Agentic Commerce Protocolemerging0/1

  No Agentic Commerce Protocol hints found — scanned llms.txt, docs page (https://exa.ai/docs/reference/contents-api-guide); /.well-known/acp returned HTTP 404.

  fix → Adopt the Agentic Commerce Protocol so agent checkouts can complete against your store — see https://developers.openai.com/commerce.

  Scanned docs and specs for agentic checkout endpoints

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• ✓Other agent payment protocolsbonusemerging1/1

  UCP/MPP evidence found: llms.txt mentions "MPP".

  Scanned fetched artifacts for UCP/MPP protocol hints

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Whether an end user's agent can operate on their behalf: working MCP tools, published skills, agent configs.

• —Agent skill publishedbonusemergingna

  Requires the analysis phase — not yet evaluated

  Checked /skill.md, /.well-known/skills/, and skills.sh for published agent skills

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• ✗MCP handshake & tools listrequired0/4

  MCP endpoint https://exa.ai/docs/reference/exa-mcp.md failed handshake: Method not allowed

  fix → MCP endpoint https://exa.ai/docs/reference/exa-mcp.md failed handshake: Method not allowed. Support streamable HTTP with protocol version negotiation; if auth-gated, return RFC 9728 metadata in WWW-Authenticate.

  Performed a streamable-HTTP initialize + tools/list against the MCP endpoint

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• —Agent configs in public repobonusemergingna

  Requires the analysis phase — not yet evaluated

  Checked your public GitHub org's main repos for AGENTS.md / .claude / .cursor configs

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Whether the site itself is legible to non-rendering and browser agents: semantic HTML, no JS walls, accessibility.

• ✗NLWeb endpointemerging0/1

  No NLWeb endpoint detected: /.well-known/nlweb.json returned HTTP 404 (text/html); GET /ask?query=hello returned HTTP 404 (text/html)

  fix → Consider exposing an NLWeb /ask endpoint (and /.well-known/nlweb.json) for conversational access to your content.

  Probed /.well-known/nlweb.json and the /ask endpoint

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• ✗Semantic HTML structurerequired0/3

  Only 2/6 semantic signals present on the homepage (missing: <main> landmark, <header>/<footer>, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10)

  fix → Add landmark elements and a clean heading hierarchy — missing: <main> landmark, <header>/<footer>, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10.

  Scored landmark elements, heading hierarchy, and text-to-markup ratio on the homepage

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• ✓Content readable without JavaScriptrequired2/2

  Homepage raw HTML contains 5786 chars of visible text without JavaScript

  Measured visible text in the raw, unrendered homepage HTML

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• ✓Accessibility basicsrequired2/2

  Homepage accessibility: 4/5 checks passed — failing: labeled inputs (2/2 unlabeled)

  Static checks: lang attribute, title, alt coverage, labeled inputs, landmarks

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• ✗WebMCPemerging0/1

  No WebMCP evidence on homepage: no application/webmcp script and no navigator.modelContext reference

  fix → Consider WebMCP to expose page actions as tools to browser agents.

  Looked for WebMCP script declarations on the homepage

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