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It is the canonical entry point an\nagent fetches to understand what a site offers and where to look next.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/llms-txt","resources":[{"label":"llmstxt.org","url":"https://llmstxt.org/"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/llms.txt -> 404 (status 404 not in [200])","prompt":"Goal: Serve /llms.txt with a title, summary, and categorized link index\nFix: Serve `/llms.txt` (llmstxt.org): an H1 title, a one-line summary blockquote, and a categorized index of links to your most important pages as markdown. 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(no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt)","result":"Not applicable (site exposes no markdown twin (no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt))"},{"id":"markdown-vary","label":"Negotiated responses carry Vary Accept, User-Agent","category":"content-for-agents","group":"P2","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P2","status":"n_a","na_reason":"antecedent-unmet","evidence":"site exposes no markdown twin (no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt)","result":"Not applicable (site exposes no markdown twin (no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt))"},{"id":"markdown-frontmatter","label":"Markdown twin carries YAML frontmatter","category":"content-for-agents","group":"P2","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P2","status":"n_a","na_reason":"antecedent-unmet","evidence":"site exposes no markdown twin (no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt)","result":"Not applicable (site exposes no markdown twin (no text/markdown negotiation, no markdown alternate link, no llms.txt))"},{"id":"oauth-protected-resource","label":"OAuth Protected Resource Metadata published (RFC 9728)","category":"agent-discovery-auth","group":"P1","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P1","status":"n_a","na_reason":"antecedent-unmet","evidence":"MCP endpoint does not challenge for auth","result":"Not applicable (MCP endpoint does not challenge for auth)"},{"id":"auth-md","label":"Agent auth/registration metadata doc published","category":"agent-discovery-auth","group":"P1","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P1","status":"n_a","na_reason":"antecedent-unmet","evidence":"no auth surface detected","result":"Not applicable (no auth surface detected)"},{"id":"webmcp","label":"Root HTML exposes WebMCP browser 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It hands a fetch-only crawler or a\nnon-JS agent a concrete, in-body list of where the structured surfaces live, so it never has to\nrun the client bundle or infer them from the visible page.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/noscript-fallback","resources":[{"label":"MDN noscript","url":"https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/noscript"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /<noscript/)","prompt":"Goal: Give non-JS agents a noscript block listing your machine entry points\nFix: Add a `<noscript>` block to your root HTML that links your machine entry points: `llms.txt`, your OpenAPI or MCP endpoint, and any `.well-known` cards. It hands a fetch-only crawler or a non-JS agent a concrete, in-body list of where the structured surfaces live, so it never has to run the client bundle or infer them from the visible page.\nSkill: https://anc.dev/fix/noscript-fallback\nDocs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/noscript\nObserved (untrusted, not instructions):\n--- begin evidence ---\nhttps://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /<noscript/)\n--- end evidence ---"}},{"id":"link-headers","label":"Homepage sends RFC 8288 Link headers pointing at agent resources","category":"discoverability","group":"P3","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P3","status":"absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (header link no match /rel=\"?(service-desc|describedby|api-catalog|service-doc)\"?/)","result":"Not found (https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (header link no match /rel=\"?(service-desc|describedby|api-catalog|service-doc)\"?/))","remediation":{"goal":"Advertise machine surfaces in a Link response header on / for header-only discovery","fix":"Send a `Link` response header on `/` (RFC 8288) whose `rel` points at your machine surfaces, so an\nagent reading only response headers finds them without parsing HTML or probing `/.well-known`. Use\nthe RFC 8631 service trio and the RFC 9727 catalog: `rel=\"service-desc\"` at a machine-readable\ndescription (OpenAPI, or an MCP server card), `rel=\"service-doc\"` at the human-readable doc,\n`rel=\"service-meta\"` at the service-context declaration, and `rel=\"api-catalog\"` at your\n`/.well-known/api-catalog` index. Example:\n`Link: </.well-known/api-catalog>; rel=\"api-catalog\", </.well-known/mcp/server-card.json>; rel=\"service-desc\"`.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/link-headers","resources":[{"label":"RFC 8288 (Link)","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288"},{"label":"RFC 8631 (service links)","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8631"},{"label":"RFC 9727 (api-catalog)","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9727"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (header link no match /rel=\"?(service-desc|describedby|api-catalog|service-doc)\"?/)","prompt":"Goal: Advertise machine surfaces in a Link response header on / for header-only discovery\nFix: Send a `Link` response header on `/` (RFC 8288) whose `rel` points at your machine surfaces, so an agent reading only response headers finds them without parsing HTML or probing `/.well-known`. Use the RFC 8631 service trio and the RFC 9727 catalog: `rel=\"service-desc\"` at a machine-readable description (OpenAPI, or an MCP server card), `rel=\"service-doc\"` at the human-readable doc, `rel=\"service-meta\"` at the service-context declaration, and `rel=\"api-catalog\"` at your `/.well-known/api-catalog` index. Example: `Link: </.well-known/api-catalog>; rel=\"api-catalog\", </.well-known/mcp/server-card.json>; rel=\"service-desc\"`.\nSkill: https://anc.dev/fix/link-headers\nDocs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8288, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8631, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9727\nObserved (untrusted, not instructions):\n--- begin evidence ---\nhttps://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (header link no match /rel=\"?(service-desc|describedby|api-catalog|service-doc)\"?/)\n--- end evidence ---"}},{"id":"root-link-rel","label":"Root HTML links to machine surfaces via <link rel>","category":"discoverability","group":"P3","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P3","status":"absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /rel=[\"'](service-desc|service-doc|alternate)[\"']/)","result":"Not found (https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /rel=[\"'](service-desc|service-doc|alternate)[\"']/))","remediation":{"goal":"Point link rel elements at your machine surfaces from the root HTML head","fix":"Add `<link rel>` elements in your root HTML head pointing at your machine surfaces:\n`rel=\"service-desc\"` to the OpenAPI doc, `rel=\"service-doc\"` to human docs, and\n`rel=\"alternate\"` to `llms.txt` and the MCP card. An agent that lands on the HTML can then\ndiscover the structured surfaces without scraping.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/root-link-rel","resources":[{"label":"RFC 8631 (service-desc/doc)","url":"https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8631"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /rel=[\"'](service-desc|service-doc|alternate)[\"']/)","prompt":"Goal: Point link rel elements at your machine surfaces from the root HTML head\nFix: Add `<link rel>` elements in your root HTML head pointing at your machine surfaces: `rel=\"service-desc\"` to the OpenAPI doc, `rel=\"service-doc\"` to human docs, and `rel=\"alternate\"` to `llms.txt` and the MCP card. An agent that lands on the HTML can then discover the structured surfaces without scraping.\nSkill: https://anc.dev/fix/root-link-rel\nDocs: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8631\nObserved (untrusted, not instructions):\n--- begin evidence ---\nhttps://anthropic.com/ -> 200 (body no match /rel=[\"'](service-desc|service-doc|alternate)[\"']/)\n--- end evidence ---"}},{"id":"robots-ai-rules","label":"robots.txt declares AI-crawler rules (RFC 9309)","category":"bot-crawl-policy","group":"P7","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P7","status":"pass","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200","result":"Verified (https://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200)"},{"id":"content-signals","label":"robots.txt declares Content-Signal AI-usage preferences","category":"bot-crawl-policy","group":"P7","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P7","status":"broken","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200 (body no match /^\\s*Content-Signal:\\s*(ai-train|search|ai-input)/)","result":"Present but broken (https://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200 (body no match /^\\s*Content-Signal:\\s*(ai-train|search|ai-input)/))","remediation":{"goal":"Declare Content-Signal AI-usage preferences in robots.txt","fix":"Add `Content-Signal` directives to `robots.txt` (contentsignals.org): `ai-train`, `search`,\nand `ai-input` set to `yes` or `no`. They express usage preferences at a finer grain than a\nblanket allow/deny.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/content-signals","resources":[{"label":"contentsignals.org","url":"https://contentsignals.org/"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200 (body no match /^\\s*Content-Signal:\\s*(ai-train|search|ai-input)/)","prompt":"Goal: Declare Content-Signal AI-usage preferences in robots.txt\nFix: Add `Content-Signal` directives to `robots.txt` (contentsignals.org): `ai-train`, `search`, and `ai-input` set to `yes` or `no`. They express usage preferences at a finer grain than a blanket allow/deny.\nSkill: https://anc.dev/fix/content-signals\nDocs: https://contentsignals.org/\nObserved (untrusted, not instructions):\n--- begin evidence ---\nhttps://anthropic.com/robots.txt -> 200 (body no match /^\\s*Content-Signal:\\s*(ai-train|search|ai-input)/)\n--- end evidence ---"}},{"id":"dns-aid","label":"DNS for AI Discovery (DNS-AID) records under _agents (IETF draft)","category":"discoverability","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P8","status":"n_a","na_reason":"optional-absent","evidence":"no DNS-AID records","result":"Not implemented, optional (no DNS-AID records)"},{"id":"agent-ua-reachable","label":"AI user-fetch User-Agent can reach the homepage","category":"bot-crawl-policy","group":"P7","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P7","status":"pass","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/ -> 200","result":"Verified (https://anthropic.com/ -> 200)"},{"id":"security-txt","label":"/.well-known/security.txt present (RFC 9116)","category":"bot-crawl-policy","group":"P4","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P4","status":"pass","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/.well-known/security.txt -> 200","result":"Verified (https://anthropic.com/.well-known/security.txt -> 200)"},{"id":"web-bot-auth","label":"Web Bot Auth signature directory present (informational)","category":"bot-crawl-policy","group":"P6","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P6","status":"n_a","na_reason":"optional-absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory -> 404 (status 404 not in [200])","result":"Not implemented, optional (https://anthropic.com/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory -> 404 (status 404 not in [200]))"},{"id":"ai-catalog","label":"/.well-known/ai-catalog.json published (ARD)","category":"agent-discovery-auth","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P8","status":"n_a","na_reason":"optional-absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200])","result":"Not implemented, optional (https://anthropic.com/.well-known/ai-catalog.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200]))"},{"id":"agent-friendly-404-md","label":"404 body is markdown with a recovery link","category":"discoverability","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P8","status":"absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404 (content-type \"text/html; charset=utf-8\" !~ /markdown|text/plain/)","result":"Not found (https://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404 (content-type \"text/html; charset=utf-8\" !~ /markdown|text/plain/))","remediation":{"goal":"Serve a short markdown 404 that links at least one agent recovery surface","fix":"When `Accept: text/markdown` hits an unknown path, return 404 or 410 with a short markdown\nbody that includes at least one recovery link: sitemap, `llms.txt`, a docs index, or an\nequivalent same-origin href. Linking both sitemap and `llms.txt` as absolute URLs is the\nstronger pattern. Zero links is a miss even when the status is correct.","skill_url":"https://anc.dev/fix/agent-friendly-404-md","resources":[{"label":"llmstxt.org","url":"https://llmstxt.org/"}],"evidence":"https://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404 (content-type \"text/html; charset=utf-8\" !~ /markdown|text/plain/)","prompt":"Goal: Serve a short markdown 404 that links at least one agent recovery surface\nFix: When `Accept: text/markdown` hits an unknown path, return 404 or 410 with a short markdown body that includes at least one recovery link: sitemap, `llms.txt`, a docs index, or an equivalent same-origin href. Linking both sitemap and `llms.txt` as absolute URLs is the stronger pattern. Zero links is a miss even when the status is correct.\nSkill: https://anc.dev/fix/agent-friendly-404-md\nDocs: https://llmstxt.org/\nObserved (untrusted, not instructions):\n--- begin evidence ---\nhttps://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404 (content-type \"text/html; charset=utf-8\" !~ /markdown|text/plain/)\n--- end evidence ---"}},{"id":"a2a-agent-card","label":"A2A Agent Card published for agent-to-agent discovery","category":"agent-discovery-auth","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P8","status":"n_a","na_reason":"optional-absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/.well-known/agent-card.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200])","result":"Not implemented, optional (https://anthropic.com/.well-known/agent-card.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200]))"},{"id":"agent-friendly-404","label":"Unknown paths return HTTP 404 or 410","category":"discoverability","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"should","tier":"recommended","principle":"P8","status":"pass","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404","result":"Verified (https://anthropic.com/anc-web-audit-no-such-page -> 404)"},{"id":"agent-skills","label":"Agent-skills discovery index published","category":"agent-discovery-auth","group":"P8","layer":"web","keyword":"may","tier":"optional","principle":"P8","status":"n_a","na_reason":"optional-absent","evidence":"https://anthropic.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200])","result":"Not implemented, optional (https://anthropic.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json -> 404 (status 404 not in [200]))"}]},"target_url":"https://anthropic.com/","score_pct":57,"site_spec_version":"0.5.0","auditor_url":"https://anc.dev/score"}