Agent Readiness Index
Cato Institute Agent Readiness Score
Partially Agent-Ready · Grade D · Scanned August 16, 2026
A public policy think tank advocating for the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.
Discoverability
Can an AI agent find sitemaps, llms.txt, and machine-readable entry points?
Content
Can agents consume content cheaply via markdown, schema.org, and structured data?
Access Control
Are crawl rules and AI bot permissions declared in robots.txt?
Capabilities
Does the site expose APIs, MCP endpoints, or agent-usable tools?
Commerce
Can agents discover pricing and initiate payments (x402, MPP, UCP)?
Quality
Performance, token efficiency, and trust signals beyond baseline checks.
Quality (16/100)
Improve quality signals: llms.txt, robots.txt AI rules, structured data, MCP or OpenAPI endpoints, and agent-readable pricing where relevant.
Content (28/100)
Improve content signals: llms.txt, robots.txt AI rules, structured data, MCP or OpenAPI endpoints, and agent-readable pricing where relevant.
Commerce (50/100)
Improve commerce signals: llms.txt, robots.txt AI rules, structured data, MCP or OpenAPI endpoints, and agent-readable pricing where relevant.
StartupHub audits the full website across 50+ checks: discoverability, content negotiation, access control, capabilities (API/MCP), commerce (x402/MPP), and quality.
Unlike pricing-only indexes, we measure whether AI agents can find, read, and act on the entire site, not just the pricing page.
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