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The door: what an agent should know before it acts on a site

Quickstart: ask before you act

MCP, curl, Python, OpenAI Agents, Claude tool use, LangChain

The signed answer about any domain, laid out for a person

How each named agent behaves on sites, from verified requests

Capability registry

What sites declare agents can do, and what was verified

Verify a record

Check any answer or bundle on your own machine

Before you act

One signed answer, no key.

Read, cite, connect or transact: ask first, verify the receipt offline, keep it with the action.

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The checks behind the audit, one at a time

Is your business record right where agents look?

Compare two sites

Two domains, side by side, same measurement

What search and answer engines read from a video

Browser extension

The second vantage point: from your own address, after JavaScript

The record on your phone, with receipts

Your site

Measured as agents see it.

A free A–F audit with every defect named, no account. Fix it, then prove it held.

Developers

The door: the API by lane, the specs, SDKs, keys and quotas

Every endpoint, with a worked example from production

Resolve protocol

The signed answer: what it holds, how to verify it

SDKs: npm and PyPI

Typed clients, the offline verifier, conformance fixtures

The Ed25519 keys every answer is signed with

Every finding the measurement can raise, with its revision

Run the suite against your own implementation

Data

The door: census, conduct, proof and datasets, each with a denominator

Signed decisions, scans and crawler visits, counted

Proof and timestamps

How every record is sealed and anchored

CC BY 4.0 snapshots and the archive

SEO and AI tools, measured

The vendors that measure sites, measured by the same rules

Registry: media kits, llms.txt, entity graphs

Verified machine-readable profiles of real organisations

Learn

The door: guides, findings and the glossary, from measurements

The scan, stage by stage, and what each grade means

How to check one thing, with the rate at which it fails

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Every term the product uses, defined

Who sends each agent, what it reads, how to verify it

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Glossary · Machine files

agent card

A machine-readable description of what an agent or service can do, served at a well-known path.

What agent card means

Early and sparsely adopted.

Where agent card comes up on this site

How an AI agent should verify a website before acting on itWhat the domain claims A site declares itself in several places: agent manifests , robots.txt and its Content Signals, llms.txt, structured data, an A2A agent card, MCP listings.

Terms this definition uses

Definitions that name agent card

Related terms in Machine files

The files addressed to machines rather than readers, and what publishing one does and does not buy.

llms.txt · llms-full.txt · agents.md · entity map · entity map parity · machine layer · well-known URI · MCP · sitemap index · OpenAPI specification · ai.txt · Tool definition · SKILL.md · sitemap origin error · soft 404 on a machine file · tdmrep.json · TDM exception · security.txt · Content Signals · HTTP Message Signatures · changefreq and priority · staging leak · host duplicate

Questions about agent card

What is agent card?

A machine-readable description of what an agent or service can do, served at a well-known path.

Which area of the glossary does agent card belong to?

Machine files: The files addressed to machines rather than readers, and what publishing one does and does not buy.

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