expanse.sh

agent readiness score · scanned Aug 18, 2026 · 9s · Infrastructure & DevOps

#322 of 979 · #28 in category

55/ 100C-

Expanse provides an intelligence layer for HPC and GPU clusters that predicts resource fit and failure risk to unlock hidden capacity and increase throughput without additional hardware.

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Discovery 10.8/20

Access 17.9/30

Usability 24.2/40

Payments 2.5/10

Top fixes

  1. MCP server discovery

    Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describing your MCP endpoint so agents can autodiscover it. Evidence found: none.

    +9.1
  2. Sitemap present & fresh

    Publish /sitemap.xml, reference it from robots.txt, and include <lastmod> dates so agents can tell what's current. Freshest lastmod seen: none.

    +6.2
  3. agents.md

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

    +5.5
  4. Machine-readable pricing

    Add Offer JSON-LD per plan (name, price, priceCurrency, billing period) to https://expanse.sh/pricing so pricing parses without inference.

    +5
  5. JSON-LD structured data

    Embed Organization + WebSite JSON-LD on your homepage (name, url, logo, sameAs) and Product/Offer JSON-LD on pricing.

    +4.6
  6. llms.txt

    Serve /llms.txt as plain markdown — an HTML page there is a routing catch-all, not an llms.txt.

    +4.6

1.Can an agent discover and trust you?

2/8

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

  • Sitemap present & freshrequired0/4

    No valid sitemap found: robots.txt listed 0 Sitemap URL(s), and GET /sitemap.xml returned HTTP 200

    fix → Publish /sitemap.xml, reference it from robots.txt, and include <lastmod> dates so agents can tell what's current. Freshest lastmod seen: none.

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

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  • Brand search discoverabilityrequired2/4

    Search "Expanse" cited expanse.sh (https://wastage.expanse.sh, https://docs.expanse.sh/llms.txt), but search "Expanse infrastructure devops" did not cite your domain

    fix → Your domain doesn't surface when agents search "Expanse infrastructure devops". Strengthen brand pages, structured data, and third-party citations (docs portals, GitHub, directories).

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

  • 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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2.Do you welcome agents?

10/16

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

  • robots.txt present & parseablerequired1/2

    /robots.txt returned HTTP 200 but looks like an HTML page (content-type text/html), not a robots policy

    fix → Serve /robots.txt as plain text with User-agent groups; an HTML error page there is unparseable to crawlers.

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

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  • AI crawler policyrequired5/5

    /robots.txt is unparseable (looks like HTML) — crawlers treat this as no restrictions, so none of the 12 AI crawler user-agents are blocked

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

  • Content Signals directivesemerging0/2

    /robots.txt is unparseable, so no Content-Signal lines could be read

    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 (44517 bytes)

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

  • agents.mdrecommended0/3

    No agents.md: https://expanse.sh/agents.md → HTTP 200, https://expanse.sh/AGENTS.md → HTTP 200

    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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3.Does an agent understand who you are and what you do?

8/18

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: "Expanse provides an intelligence layer for HPC and GPU clusters that predicts resource fit and failure risk to unlock hidden capacity and increase throughput without additional hardware.")

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

  • 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.txtrecommended0/4

    /llms.txt returned HTML (content-type text/html), not markdown

    fix → Serve /llms.txt as plain markdown — an HTML page there is a routing catch-all, not an llms.txt.

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

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  • llms-full.txtbonusrecommended0/2

    /llms-full.txt returned HTML (content-type text/html), not markdown

    fix → Serve /llms-full.txt as plain markdown, not an HTML page.

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

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  • JSON-LD structured datarequired0/4

    No application/ld+json blocks found on homepage and pricing page

    fix → Embed Organization + WebSite JSON-LD on your homepage (name, url, logo, sameAs) and Product/Offer JSON-LD on pricing.

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

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  • Markdown content negotiationrecommended3/3

    https://docs.expanse.sh/ returns markdown for `Accept: text/markdown` (content-type text/markdown)

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

4.Can an agent integrate with you?

watch →4/9

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

  • Developer resource discoverabilityrecommendedna

    No public API detected

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

  • OpenAPI spec discoverablerequiredna

    No public developer API detected — API checks don't apply

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

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  • Docs discoverablerequired4/4

    Docs found at https://docs.expanse.sh/ (via homepage link, 2010 chars of readable text)

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

  • MCP server discoveryrequired0/5

    No MCP evidence found: probed /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, /.well-known/mcp.json, /mcp.json and scanned llms.txt, agents.md, and docs for endpoints or install commands

    fix → Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describing your MCP endpoint so agents can autodiscover it. Evidence found: none.

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

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  • npm SDKrecommendedna

    No public developer API detected — API checks don't apply

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

  • PyPI SDKrecommendedna

    No public developer API detected — API checks don't apply

    Searched PyPI for an official, domain-verified SDK package

5.Is your integration well-built?

watch →4.3/5

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

  • OpenAPI validity & qualityrecommendedna

    No public developer API detected — API checks don't apply

    Linted the spec: descriptions, operationIds, securitySchemes, servers

  • Docs qualityrecommended2.3/3

    Docs at https://docs.expanse.sh/ scored clarity 4/5, completeness 3/5, runnable examples 5/5, agent-friendliness 3/5 (mean 3.8/5)

    fix → Docs scored 3/5 on completeness. The documentation provides commands for installing the CLI and registering a compute, but it does not provide a clear, direct path for an agent to obtain the necessary API key without human intervention via the console.

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

  • Quickstart / getting startedrecommended2/2

    Quickstart found: https://docs.expanse.org.uk/quickstart (linked from https://docs.expanse.sh/) returns 200 with a code block

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

  • MCP tool qualityrecommendedna

    No MCP endpoint known — tool lint requires a tools/list

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

6.Can an agent use you reliably in production?

watch →4/4

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

  • TLS & redirect hygienerequired2/2

    http://expanse.sh/ 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

  • Response speed & weightrequired1/1

    Homepage TTFB 305ms, payload 43KB, Content-Encoding: gzip

    Measured homepage TTFB, payload size, and compression

  • security.txtrecommended1/1

    Valid security.txt at https://expanse.sh/.well-known/security.txt: Contact mailto:security@expanse.org.uk, Expires 2027-06-01

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

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7.Can an agent authenticate to you?

watch →2/2

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

  • OAuth authorization server metadatarecommendedna

    No API or MCP server detected — OAuth metadata doesn't apply

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

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  • OAuth protected resource metadatarecommendedna

    No API or MCP server detected — OAuth metadata doesn't apply

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

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  • Auth documentationrecommended2/2

    Auth documentation found at https://docs.expanse.org.uk/deployment/authentication (linked from https://docs.expanse.sh/) with code examples

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

8.Can an agent transact with you?

watch →2.5/15

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

  • Pricing discoverablerequired2.5/5

    Pricing page found at https://expanse.sh/pricing (via path probe) but no legible price signals in 0 chars of page text — no currency amounts, "per month"/"/mo", or "free plan" terms (reads as contact-sales only).

    fix → Add literal plan prices to https://expanse.sh/pricing; 'Contact sales'-only pricing means agents can't complete a purchase evaluation.

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

  • Machine-readable pricingrecommended0/5

    No pricing plans could be extracted from https://expanse.sh/pricing (extraction confidence 0.00); no Offer JSON-LD on the page.

    fix → Add Offer JSON-LD per plan (name, price, priceCurrency, billing period) to https://expanse.sh/pricing so pricing parses without inference.

    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 200 but not JSON. 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, agents.md, docs page (https://docs.expanse.sh/); /.well-known/ap2 returned HTTP 200.

    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, agents.md, docs page (https://docs.expanse.sh/); /.well-known/acp returned HTTP 200.

    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 protocolsbonusemerging0/1

    No UCP/MPP hints found — scanned llms.txt, agents.md, docs page (https://docs.expanse.sh/).

    fix → Track emerging agent payment protocols (UCP, MPP) and adopt the ones your buyers' agents use.

    Scanned fetched artifacts for UCP/MPP protocol hints

9.Can a user act through an agent?

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

  • MCP handshake & tools listrequiredna

    No MCP endpoint known — nothing to handshake with

    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

10.Can an agent operate your website directly?

5.5/9

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 200 (text/html); GET /ask?query=hello returned HTTP 200 (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 structurerequired1.5/3

    3/6 semantic signals present on the homepage (missing: <main> landmark, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10)

    fix → Add the missing structure: <main> landmark, no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10. Agents parse structure, not pixels.

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

  • Content readable without JavaScriptrequired2/2

    Homepage raw HTML contains 2024 chars of visible text without JavaScript

    Measured visible text in the raw, unrendered homepage HTML

  • Accessibility basicsrequired2/2

    Homepage accessibility: 5/5 checks passed

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

  • 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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