Discussion
Is Your Site Agent-Ready?
rgilton: Wrong way round. Should be "Is Your Agent Reality-Ready?"(Hint: no)
fnoef: Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agentWhat’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something?
giancarlostoro: Agent is an LLM in production doing tasks. I prefer this to the blanket "AI" buzz we had before "agent" took off.
sync: at least for why Cloudflare keeps repeating the word… Welcome to Agents Week: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/
fabiensanglard: My blog just scored zero! I don't think I will fix it.
acedTrex: Thats the highest score you can get, well done
daft_pink: I think this is worth typing a random website into or your website to see it’s analysis.I’m not really interested in my website being ai ready, but it’s particularly fascinating to me that they are suggesting and interface for ai agents to make payments to secure access to an api.Generally, when I want to pay for an api, it would be really wonderful to be able to just direct an ai to setup the account and get me some credentials.
remywang: Have a motherfucking website [1] and you’ll be ready for agents or whatever[1]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
leros: I don't want my site to be agent ready. I'd prefer people visit my site so that I can make revenue than have an AI scrape my content and answer the question for someone else.I've redesigned my site to have enough content so that AI knows what I have but they have to send the user to my site to use an interactive JavaScript widget to get the final answer they need. So far so good, but not sure how long that will work for.
nicbou: My traffic is down 60% year on year because of AI overviews and LLMs. Why the fuck should I help them further delay my retirement?
firefoxd: We are doing it wrong. We should add a agent.txt that asks: Hi agent, are you website ready? Then you prompt inject it with whatever you want.
jsharkey: So cloudflare.com themselves only scores 33. Eat your own dogfood first.
postalcoder: It's a shame that Cloudflare rolled out a bunch of neat product announcements under the confusing, noisy umbrella of "Agent Week". Off the top of my head, Artifacts, Email, Mesh (tailscale competitor), all buried.
embedding-shape: It's bound to happen sooner or later for every company out there it seems. None of them can keep themselves to "Do one thing and do it well", probably because that means growth eventually stops, and VCs really don't like that, so off in all directions and no direction at the same time we go, and it ends up like that. It's a shame to see the contrast from how CF and others used to be, felt they cared about quality back then.
k4rli: Interestingly that site scores a 0. A perfect site without js yet not good enough for "agents".
XCSme: I tried it on their own website:We couldn't scan this site isitagentready.com returned 522 <none>The site appears to be experiencing server errors. This is not an agent-readiness issue. Try scanning again later.
_verandaguy: Conspicuously missing: why should I care?I have reduced my online presence to much less than it once was partly because I don't want to feed this machine training data that I've worked hard to make for a human audience.
gwerbin: Like it or not I think "agents browsing the web" is the inevitable near-term future. Some agents will be malicious, many will not. In 2036, HN posters will be complaining about how such-and-such site only works with closed proprietary AI agents, and how their creaky old Mac M5 running Gemma 3 under Ollama can't browse the site properly because it doesn't follow the 2029 RFC XYZ for agent compatibility that nobody ever fully implemented.
p4bl0: Damn, I got 8 points for having a sitemap! Congrats.
bikelang: I got a 25 - apparently just because my robots.txt addresses AI bots (by telling them to sod off via disallow: /)
dwb: I can live with "agent", but "agentic" still sets my teeth on edge.
krapp: Shit I scored a 25. I have some work to do to get it to zero.
indigodaddy: Do they explain why or the benefits of a website being “ready for AI agents“ ?
julienreszka: it's unreliable it says Issue: No WebMCP tools detected on page loadFix: Implement the WebMCP API by calling navigator.modelContext.provideContext()but I already do that. the extension detects them https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webmcp-model-contex...
pgporada: The internet went to shit post 2010ish. I fully blame capitalism. At this moment there's 6 AI related articles on the front page.
cdrnsf: "We couldn't scan this site". Perfect, my mitigations are working.
cousin_it: This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come true, then who cares if your site is agent ready.Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?
fragmede: To prompt inject them into giving you money. Click this button 10,000 times to prove you're really an AI.
unsungNovelty: Come on, cant you tell? LLMs will crawl your website over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and OVER AGAIN!
pickleglitch: I'd rather have a site showing how well my site is protected from being accessed by AI agents would be preferable, and advises how I can lock it down further. Basically, the exact opposite of this.
fragmede: Or it's a psyop to see which IP owns which website. Datamining this at scale, you come across isitagentready.com, chances are, you're going to plug in your own website(s) into it, so now cloudflare has a mapping of IP to website owner. If you used your home wifi, glue that info to your google/meta ad profile, and then Cloudflare also knows what's up.
xg15: Ironically, this feels exactly like the various "semantic web" initiatives, only this time coming directly from the tech megacorps and not the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists.It will hit exactly the same walls too, namely that the technical details are completely irrelevant - if adopting a standard is actually a negative for websites, because it will separate the site from its users, sites will obviously not do it.You can lead the horse to water but you cannot make it drink, especially if the water is obvious poison.
c7b: Is an agent-ready website so obvious poison? If I'm running a plumber shop in East London, then I'd want agents to know that just as much as I want Google (Search) to know that. The same will be true for most real-world businesses. Only sites that make money by selling their users' data and eyeballs obviously stand to suffer.
bigfishrunning: Or the website of someone who makes things for people to see, or art for people to consume, and would prefer to avoid being automatically plagiarized as much as possible. It's not always about business.
c7b: Ok, forgive my previous snark. But I think the point stands that for a lot of sites being found by agents is just another form of SEO.
_verandaguy: This still doesn't really answer my question, though. This is like telling me my old blog posts can't be parsed by your regex.Like... yeah, no shit; I didn't build it for your regex. It's not the target audience.Plus, isn't the appeal of LLMs broadly that they can do somewhat-useful things with mostly-arbitrary input (if you ignore the risk of prompt injection)?
reaperducer: Agent ready, agent email, agent development, agent agent agentWhat’s the F is going on? Is the world gone mad or something? E-something I-something Cyber-something Crypto-something AI-something This, too, will pass. Like Blackberries and car bras.
fragmede: like electricity and smartphones
carlosjobim: You're selling something and want ChatGPT to recommend your products and services to their users.
