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Knowledge Base

Plain-language guides to every protocol agentgrade checks for.

About

Getting Started — Make Your Site Agent-Ready

Quick checklist to make your site discoverable and usable by AI agents.

Understanding Your Score

How agentgrade scores your site, what verified vs declared means, and how to improve.

Cloudflare & Agent Access

Why Cloudflare blocks agent traffic and how to configure it for agent accessibility.

About Scanning

How agentgrade scans sites, what data it collects, and how to opt out.

Payments

Comparing Payment Protocols

x402 vs MPP vs L402 — when to use each machine payment protocol.

x402 — HTTP Payment Protocol

The HTTP 402 payment protocol that lets agents pay per-request with USDC on Base.

MPP — Machine Payment Protocol

Micropayment protocol using pathUSD on the Tempo network for sub-second agent payments.

SPT — Stripe Shared Payment Tokens

Stripe card payments for AI agents via Shared Payment Tokens and the MPP 402 flow.

L402 — Lightning Payments

Bitcoin Lightning Network payments for API access using macaroons and invoices.

x-payment-info — OpenAPI Payment Discovery

Pre-request payment discovery via OpenAPI extensions so agents know pricing before triggering a 402.

Bazaar — Service Discovery

The x402 service catalog that lets agents discover and browse paid API endpoints.

Concepts

How AI Agents Actually Browse the Web

How ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini retrieve and process web content — and what it means for your site.

Discovery

MCP — Model Context Protocol

JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol that lets AI models call your tools directly.

OpenAPI — API Specification

Machine-readable API description that tells agents what endpoints exist and how to call them.

llms.txt — LLM Context File

Plain-text file that explains your service to large language models.

agents.txt — Agent Access Policies

Defines what AI agents are allowed to do on your service.

AI Plugin Manifest

Plugin manifest that helps AI assistants discover and integrate with your service.

robots.txt for Agents

Agent-specific directives in robots.txt that signal your site welcomes AI crawlers.

Claude Plugin Manifest

Plugin manifest that lets Claude and other Anthropic tools discover your service.

Skills Manifest

A JSON manifest listing the actions agents can take on your service.

Identity

Identity Protocols

Decentralized identity standards that let agents verify who owns a domain.

Capabilities

Content Negotiation for AI Agents

How to serve agent-optimized responses based on User-Agent and Accept headers.

Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421)

How AI agents prove their identity with cryptographic HTTP message signatures.