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agent readiness score · scanned Aug 18, 2026 · 54s · Infrastructure & DevOps
#601 of 979 · #46 in category
Akamai Cloud provides a distributed cloud computing platform offering a wide range of infrastructure services including compute, storage, networking, and databases, designed for building and delivering low-latency, edge-native applications.
Discovery 11.3/20
Access 18.5/30
Usability 10/40
Payments 0/10
Top fixes
- +10
Pricing discoverable
Expose a crawlable /pricing page with literal plan prices and link it from your homepage nav.
- +5.3
OpenAPI spec discoverable
Publish your OpenAPI spec at /openapi.json and link it from docs — it's the single highest-leverage artifact for agent integration.
- +5
Brand search discoverability
Your domain doesn't surface when agents search "Akamai Cloud". Strengthen brand pages, structured data, and third-party citations (docs portals, GitHub, directories).
- +4.6
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
llms.txt
Add /llms.txt: an H1 with your name, a one-line blockquote summary, and H2 sections of curated links to docs, pricing, and API.
- +4.2
MCP handshake & tools list
MCP endpoint https://github.com/akamaidocs/mcp-gateway failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint. Support streamable HTTP with protocol version negotiation; if auth-gated, return RFC 9728 metadata in WWW-Authenticate.
1.Can an agent discover and trust you?
4/8
1.Can an agent discover and trust you?
Whether agents can crawl you, find you in the registries and searches they check, and trust what they find.
✓Sitemap present & fresh4/4
Sitemap at https://www.linode.com/sitemap-index.xml: 7 entries, freshest <lastmod> 2026-07-27 (21 days ago)
Resolved the sitemap from robots.txt or /sitemap.xml, validated XML, and checked lastmod freshness
spec ↗✗Brand search discoverability0/4
Neither search ("Akamai Cloud", "Akamai Cloud infrastructure devops") cited linode.com. Cited instead: https://www.akamai.com/site/en/documents/akamai/akamai-services-descriptions.pdf, https://techdocs.akamai.com/service-reports/changelog/apr-10-2025-service-reports-general-availability-release, https://techdocs.akamai.com/reporting/v1/reference/available-reports, https://techdocs.akamai.com/reporting/v1/docs/traffic-rpts, https://github.com/akamai-developers/akamai-cloud-mcp
fix → Your domain doesn't surface when agents search "Akamai Cloud". 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 listingsna
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?
7/12
2.Do you welcome agents?
Whether your robots policy, bot protection, and agent guidance actively admit AI agents instead of blocking them.
✓robots.txt present & parseable2/2
/robots.txt parses: 2 User-agent group(s), 1 Sitemap line(s)
Fetched /robots.txt and validated it parses as a robots policy
spec ↗✓AI crawler policy5/5
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, …)
✗Content Signals directives0/2
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
spec ↗!Agent user-agent parityerror
Browser UA received HTTP 403 — cannot evaluate parity (the site may be blocking our scanner)
Compared responses served to browser and AI-agent user-agents (informational while in beta)
✗agents.md0/3
No agents.md: https://linode.com/agents.md → HTTP 404, https://linode.com/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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3.Does an agent understand who you are and what you do?
8/18
3.Does an agent understand who you are and what you do?
Whether your pages carry machine-readable identity: structured data, llms.txt, clear copy an agent can quote.
✓Homepage states what you are3/3
Homepage clarity rated 5/5 — an agent can confidently say what this company does (model's one-sentence read: "Akamai Cloud provides a distributed cloud computing platform offering a wide range of infrastructure services including compute, storage, networking, and databases, designed for building and delivering low-latency, edge-native applications.")
An LLM read your homepage as an agent would and rated how confidently it could say what you do
✓OpenGraph / social metadata2/2
Homepage has og:title, og:description, and og:image (twitter:card absent)
Parsed homepage og:title / og:description / og:image and twitter:card meta tags
spec ↗✗llms.txt0/4
GET /llms.txt returned HTTP 404
fix → Add /llms.txt: an H1 with your name, a one-line blockquote summary, and H2 sections of curated links to docs, pricing, and API.
Fetched /llms.txt and validated it against the llmstxt.org shape (H1, summary, curated links)
spec ↗✗llms-full.txt0/2
GET /llms-full.txt returned HTTP 404
fix → Add /llms-full.txt with expanded inline docs content so agents can load everything in one fetch.
Fetched /llms-full.txt and checked for substantial inline markdown content
spec ↗✗JSON-LD structured data0/4
No application/ld+json blocks found on homepage
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
spec ↗✓Markdown content negotiation3/3
https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome 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 →6.5/19
4.Can an agent integrate with you?
Whether the artifacts an agent needs to build on you — docs, API specs, SDKs, MCP servers — exist and are findable.
✗Developer resource discoverability0/3
Search "Akamai Cloud API documentation" cited nothing from linode.com and nothing mentioning "Akamai Cloud". Cited: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/api, https://techdocs.akamai.com/home/page/apis, https://www.akamai.com/site/en/documents/corporate/akamai-services-descriptions.pdf, https://techdocs.akamai.com/get-started-cloud-computing/docs/get-access-api, https://github.com/akamai/akamai-apis/blob/main/INDEX.md
fix → Create a crawlable /docs or developers.linode.com hub and link it from your homepage footer so search-grounded agents find your API.
Searched for your brand with developer-keyword suffixes and checked which official resources are cited
✗OpenAPI spec discoverable0/5
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
spec ↗✓Docs discoverable4/4
Docs found at https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome (via homepage link, 16495 chars of readable text)
Followed homepage nav/footer links and probed /docs, /developers, docs.{domain}
◐MCP server discovery2.5/5
MCP evidence found only as a mention in docs page (https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome): "https://github.com/akamaidocs/mcp-gateway" — no well-known server card
fix → Publish /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json describing your MCP endpoint so agents can autodiscover it. Evidence found: docs page (https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome).
Probed /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, mcp.json, and docs mentions for an MCP endpoint
spec ↗!npm SDKerror
All 6 npm registry requests failed: @akamaicloud/sdk (Request budget exhausted), @akamaicloud/akamaicloud (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloud (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloud-sdk (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloud-api (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloud-js (Request budget exhausted)
Searched the npm registry for an official, domain-verified SDK package
✗PyPI SDK0/2
No official PyPI SDK found: probed 4 candidate(s) (akamaicloud, akamaicloud-sdk, akamaicloudapi, akamaicloud-python) — registry unavailable for: akamaicloud-sdk (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloudapi (Request budget exhausted), akamaicloud-python (Request budget exhausted)
fix → Publish an official Python SDK (suggest "akamaicloud") with your domain in the project URLs so agents can verify it's official.
Searched PyPI for an official, domain-verified SDK package
5.Is your integration well-built?
watch →0/5
5.Is your integration well-built?
Whether your specs, docs, and tools are complete and descriptive enough for an agent to use them without guessing.
—OpenAPI validity & qualityna
No OpenAPI spec found — nothing to lint
Linted the spec: descriptions, operationIds, securitySchemes, servers
✗Docs quality0/3
Docs at https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome scored clarity 4/5, completeness 2/5, runnable examples 0/5, agent-friendliness 3/5 (mean 2.3/5)
fix → Docs scored 0/5 on runnable examples. The documentation is truncated, so it is impossible to assess the full scope of available information or how to perform specific actions beyond what is listed in the table of contents.
An LLM rated your docs for clarity, completeness, runnable examples, and agent-friendliness
✗Quickstart / getting started0/2
Quickstart page https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/getting-started exists but contains no code block (<pre> or fenced code)
fix → Add a copy-pasteable code example (auth → first API call) to your quickstart — agents follow it literally.
Looked for a quickstart/getting-started guide containing code blocks
—MCP tool qualityna
No tools listed by the MCP endpoint — nothing to lint
Linted listed tools for descriptions, typed input schemas, and naming
6.Can an agent use you reliably in production?
watch →2.5/4
6.Can an agent use you reliably in production?
Response hygiene, TLS and redirect discipline, and security contact channels agents depend on at runtime.
✓TLS & redirect hygiene2/2
http://linode.com/ 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 & weight0.5/1
Homepage TTFB 2221ms, payload 158KB, Content-Encoding: gzip — one target missed: TTFB 2221ms (target <1500ms)
fix → Fix: TTFB 2221ms (target <1500ms). Enable compression and trim payload — agents run on strict timeouts.
Measured homepage TTFB, payload size, and compression
✗security.txt0/1
security.txt present at https://linode.com/.well-known/security.txt but missing required field(s): Expires
fix → Add Expires to your security.txt — both are required by RFC 9116.
Fetched /.well-known/security.txt and validated Contact + Expires
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7.Can an agent authenticate to you?
watch →1/7
7.Can an agent authenticate to you?
Whether agents can discover your auth model machine-readably (OAuth metadata) and follow documented steps to credentials.
✗OAuth authorization server metadata0/3
Neither /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server nor /.well-known/openid-configuration resolved (HTTP 403 / HTTP 403)
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)
spec ↗✗OAuth protected resource metadata0/2
No RFC 9728 metadata: https://linode.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource → HTTP 403
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
spec ↗◐Auth documentation1/2
Auth page https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/enable-third-party-authentication exists but contains no code examples
fix → Add a runnable example (key creation → header format → example call) to your auth docs — agents follow it literally.
Looked for /auth.md or an authentication docs page with code examples
8.Can an agent transact with you?
watch →0/10
8.Can an agent transact with you?
Whether pricing is discoverable and machine-readable, and whether you support agent payment protocols.
✗Pricing discoverable0/5
No pricing page found: no homepage link matching pricing/plans/billing, and probes of /pricing and /plans returned no HTML page.
fix → Expose a crawlable /pricing page with literal plan prices and link it from your homepage nav.
Followed nav/footer links and probed /pricing for a page with legible price signals
—Machine-readable pricingna
No pricing page found to evaluate
Looked for Offer JSON-LD, then had an LLM attempt structured extraction of your plans
spec ↗✗x402 payment support0/2
/.well-known/x402 returned HTTP 403. 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
spec ↗✗AP2 readiness0/1
No AP2 hints found — scanned docs page (https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome); /.well-known/ap2 returned HTTP 403.
fix → Adopt AP2 to accept delegated agent payments — see https://ap2-protocol.org.
Scanned fetched artifacts and well-known paths for AP2 hints
spec ↗✗Agentic Commerce Protocol0/1
No Agentic Commerce Protocol hints found — scanned docs page (https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome); /.well-known/acp returned HTTP 403.
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
spec ↗✗Other agent payment protocols0/1
No UCP/MPP hints found — scanned docs page (https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/welcome).
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?
0/4
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 publishedna
Requires the analysis phase — not yet evaluated
Checked /skill.md, /.well-known/skills/, and skills.sh for published agent skills
✗MCP handshake & tools list0/4
MCP endpoint https://github.com/akamaidocs/mcp-gateway failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint
fix → MCP endpoint https://github.com/akamaidocs/mcp-gateway failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint. 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
spec ↗—Agent configs in public repona
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
10.Can an agent operate your website directly?
Whether the site itself is legible to non-rendering and browser agents: semantic HTML, no JS walls, accessibility.
✗NLWeb endpoint0/1
No NLWeb endpoint detected: /.well-known/nlweb.json returned HTTP 403 (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
spec ↗◐Semantic HTML structure1.5/3
4/6 semantic signals present on the homepage (missing: no heading-level skips, text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10)
fix → Add the missing structure: 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 JavaScript2/2
Homepage raw HTML contains 7123 chars of visible text without JavaScript
Measured visible text in the raw, unrendered homepage HTML
✓Accessibility basics2/2
Homepage accessibility: 4/5 checks passed — failing: labeled inputs (1/2 unlabeled)
Static checks: lang attribute, title, alt coverage, labeled inputs, landmarks
✗WebMCP0/1
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
spec ↗