vercel.com

agent readiness score · scanned Aug 17, 2026 · 9s · Infrastructure & DevOps

#42 of 979 · #7 in category

78/ 100B

Vercel provides an "Agentic Infrastructure" platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI-powered applications and agentic workloads, offering tools for AI development, core platform services like security and content delivery, and various developer tools and frameworks.

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Discovery 20/20

Access 27.7/30

Usability 20.8/40

Payments 10/10

Top fixes

  1. 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
  2. MCP handshake & tools list

    MCP endpoint https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/xmcp failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint. Support streamable HTTP with protocol version negotiation; if auth-gated, return RFC 9728 metadata in WWW-Authenticate.

    +4
  3. agents.md

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

    +3
  4. MCP server discovery

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

    +2.5
  5. llms.txt

    Your /llms.txt is missing an H1 as the first non-blank line. Follow llmstxt.org: start with `# YourName`, add a `>` summary line, then sections of curated links.

    +2.3
  6. OAuth protected resource metadata

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

    +2

1.Can an agent discover and trust you?

8/8

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://vercel.com/sitemap.xml: 6261 entries, freshest <lastmod> 2026-08-17 (0 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 ("Vercel" and "Vercel infrastructure devops") cited vercel.com: https://vercel.com/kb/guide/durable-web-research-agent-with-workflow-sdk, https://vercel.com/blog/how-were-adapting-seo-for-llms-and-ai-search, https://vercel.com/docs/analytics, https://vercel.com/blog/how-we-built-aeo-tracking-for-coding-agents, https://vercel.com/blog/framework-defined-infrastructure

    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?

13/16

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, …)

  • Content Signals directivesemerging2/2

    1 valid Content-Signal line(s) in robots.txt (e.g. `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no`)

    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 (608154 bytes)

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

  • agents.mdrecommended0/3

    No agents.md: https://vercel.com/agents.md → HTTP 200, https://vercel.com/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?

14/18

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: "Vercel provides an "Agentic Infrastructure" platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI-powered applications and agentic workloads, offering tools for AI development, core platform services like security and content delivery, and various developer tools and frameworks.")

    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.txtrecommended2/4

    /llms.txt exists (211725 chars) but is missing an H1 as the first non-blank line

    fix → Your /llms.txt is missing an H1 as the first non-blank line. Follow llmstxt.org: start with `# YourName`, add a `>` summary line, then sections of curated links.

    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 datarequired4/4

    1 JSON-LD block(s) on homepage and pricing page (types: SoftwareApplication); SoftwareApplication 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://vercel.com/ 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 →11.5/21

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 "Vercel API documentation" cited your own domain: https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api, https://vercel.com/docs/rest-api/user/list-user-events, https://vercel.com/changelog/automatic-rest-api-documentation-with-openapi, https://vercel.com/docs/index

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

  • 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://vercel.com/docs (via homepage link, 7257 chars of readable text)

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

  • MCP server discoveryrequired2.5/5

    MCP evidence found only as a mention in llms.txt: "https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/xmcp" — 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 "@vercel/sdk" (verified via README mentions the domain): latest 1.28.18 published 2026-08-17

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

  • PyPI SDKrecommended0/2

    No official PyPI SDK found: probed 4 candidate(s) (vercel, vercel-sdk, vercelapi, vercel-python) — found but not domain-verified: vercel, vercel-sdk

    fix → Publish an official Python SDK (suggest "vercel") 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 →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 OpenAPI spec found — nothing to lint

    Linted the spec: descriptions, operationIds, securitySchemes, servers

  • Docs qualityrecommended2.3/3

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

    fix → Docs scored 3/5 on completeness. The documentation provides a high-level overview and links to many sub-sections, but an agent would need to navigate deeply into these linked documents to find specific API endpoints and detailed integration steps.

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

  • Quickstart / getting startedrecommended2/2

    Quickstart found: https://vercel.com/docs/getting-started-with-vercel (linked from https://vercel.com/docs) returns 200 with a code block

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

  • MCP tool qualityrecommendedna

    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 →4/4

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

  • TLS & redirect hygienerequired2/2

    http://vercel.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 & weightrequired1/1

    Homepage TTFB 93ms, payload 594KB, Content-Encoding: br

    Measured homepage TTFB, payload size, and compression

  • security.txtrecommended1/1

    Valid security.txt at https://vercel.com/.well-known/security.txt: Contact https://hackerone.com/vercel-open-source, Expires 2027-05-27

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

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7.Can an agent authenticate to you?

watch →5/7

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

  • OAuth authorization server metadatarecommended3/3

    Valid RFC 8414 metadata at https://vercel.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server: issuer https://vercel.com, PKCE S256, dynamic client registration at https://api.vercel.com/login/oauth/register

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

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  • OAuth protected resource metadatarecommended0/2

    No RFC 9728 metadata: https://vercel.com/.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 documentationrecommended2/2

    Auth documentation found at https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok (linked from https://vercel.com/docs) with code examples

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

8.Can an agent transact with you?

watch →10/15

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

  • Pricing discoverablerequired5/5

    Pricing page found at https://vercel.com/pricing (via homepage link) with legible price signals ("$0/mo.The perfect starting pla").

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

  • Machine-readable pricingrecommended5/5

    LLM extracted 2 numerically-priced plan(s) from https://vercel.com/pricing at confidence 1.00: Hobby $ 0/month; Pro $ 20/month; Enterprise (contact sales).

    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, agents.md, docs page (https://vercel.com/docs); /.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, agents.md, docs page (https://vercel.com/docs); /.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 protocolsbonusemerging0/1

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

    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

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 listrequired0/4

    MCP endpoint https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/xmcp failed handshake: Not a JSON-RPC endpoint

    fix → MCP endpoint https://vercel.com/docs/frameworks/backend/xmcp 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

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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?

7/9

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 404 (text/plain); 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 structurerequired3/3

    5/6 semantic signals present on the homepage (missing: text-to-markup ratio ≥ 0.10)

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

  • Content readable without JavaScriptrequired2/2

    Homepage raw HTML contains 3330 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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