Resources

Bottom line

This page collects the starter references for Agent Ready strategy, audit practice, crawler policy, implementation checklists, capability protocols, and Lighthouse agentic-browsing checks.

Is this relevant?

Use it when you want source links behind the examples site or need a fast handoff after the Codeable Skill Chat deck.

Use these as starter references for the Agent Ready examples site and the Codeable Skill Chat deck.

Slides

• Open the Codeable Skill Chat deck - live slides for the Agent Ready audit model.

Strategy and positioning

• Agent Led Growth - Sequoia and Profound on the shift from SEO to agent-led discovery and demand capture.
• AEO is the New SEO - Always Be Testing / SaaS Class episode on answer engine optimization.
• Visibility in AI Search - iPullRank session on how brands earn and measure AI search visibility.

Audit reference

• Practical Agent Readiness Audit Priority - weighted 80/20 implementation checklist with audit commands, guidance, and best-practice links.
• Agentic Empathy - source-backed examples for reducing uncertainty for constrained, tool-using agents.
• WordPress Agent-Ready Tooling - practical WordPress admin, SEO plugin, theme, page-builder, and audit-tool guidance for keeping agent-readiness work boring.
• Cloudflare Agent Readiness - reference implementation for the current scanner model and emerging protocol categories.
• Google Lighthouse agentic browsing scoring - official scoring reference for Lighthouse’s agentic-browsing category.

Online checker tools

• Is It Agent Ready - broad public scanner for emerging agent-readiness protocol surfaces.
• Cloudflare URL Scanner - HTTP, rendering, and security scan evidence to pair with protocol checks.
• Agent Ready scanner - comparison scanner for content and readability-oriented checks.
• IsAgentReady methodology - companion methodology reference for agent-readiness scans.
• Vercel Agent Readability - practical site and docs readability checklist.
• Agent-Friendly Documentation Spec and AFDocs CI integration - docs-specific agent-readability checks and CI guidance.
• AgentCheck AI bot posture leaderboard - declared robots.txt and public interface-file posture; useful signal, not a full readiness audit.

Implementation checklists

• Cloudflare AI consumability - practical docs guidance for making content easier for AI systems to consume.
• Cloudflare Markdown for Agents - reference for Markdown endpoints, llms.txt, and llms-full.txt on a large documentation site.
• llms.txt proposal - original proposal for a curated Markdown entrypoint for LLM-friendly site context.
• Google AI features and your website - baseline Google guidance for AI Overviews and AI Mode; useful for avoiding claims that Google requires special AI-only files or schema.

Crawler policy

• OpenAI crawlers - official bot names and controls for search, user-triggered fetch, training, and related agents.
• Anthropic crawler controls - official Claude crawler and user-fetch controls.
• Perplexity crawlers - official Perplexity crawler and user-agent reference.
• Bing grounding on the AI web - Microsoft/Bing framing for source grounding in AI-generated experiences.

Capability protocols

Use these only when the site has real APIs, tools, auth flows, agent services, or commerce surfaces to expose.

• RFC 9727 API Catalog - well-known API discovery standard.
• RFC 9728 OAuth Protected Resource Metadata - metadata for OAuth-protected resources.
• Model Context Protocol - standard for connecting AI applications to tools, data, and workflows.
• A2A specification - agent-card-based discovery and inter-agent communication.
• Chrome WebMCP early preview and WebMCP explainer - browser-page tool discovery for human-in-the-loop agent interactions.

Reality checks and safety

• Dries Buytaert on Markdown, llms.txt, and AI crawlers - crawler-log counterweight to treating Markdown or llms.txt as a ranking switch.
• Simon Willison on the lethal trifecta - safety framing for agents that combine private data, untrusted content, and external communication.

Operator playbooks

• HubSpot AEO playbook - operator-facing playbook for showing up in AI search.
• iPullRank AI Search Manual walkthrough - technical walkthrough for AI search visibility, relevance engineering, and measurement.
• Similarweb agentic search optimization checklist - practitioner checklist that separates citation visibility from agent task completion.
• Graphite AEO - agency/operator framing for answer engine optimization; useful market language, but validate tactical claims against primary sources.

Lighthouse command

Run the agentic browsing category against a public URL and open the generated HTML report:

npx lighthouse@latest https://agentready.samcarlton.com \
  --only-categories=agentic-browsing \
  --output=html \
  --output-path=./lighthouse-agentic.html \
  --view