Agent Readiness
Agent Readiness measures how callable a site is to AI agents (Google Search Agent, WebMCP, ChatGPT Agent) — semantic forms, price schema, callable-action JSON-LD, policy docs. A new 2026 dimension.
Category: GEO
What is Agent Readiness?
Agent Readiness measures how callable a site is to AI agents (Google Search Agent, WebMCP, ChatGPT Agent) — semantic forms, price schema, callable-action JSON-LD, policy docs. A new 2026 dimension.
How do you apply it in practice?
Six checks: callable actions, policy docs, form aria-labels, price schema, action coverage, auth flows.
Why does it matter for AI search citations?
Generative search engines tend to extract sentences that are clearly defined, consistent and quotable on their own. Writing concepts like "Agent Readiness" as one consistent definition across your site, backed by structured data and verifiable sources, lowers the chance of being misread. This improves readiness only; it does not guarantee citations or ranking gains — measure actual citations to know.
Which related terms should you know?
llms.txt
llms.txt is a plain-text manifest at a site's root that lists key pages, APIs, and docs in Markdown for AI crawlers to index efficiently. Proposed by Anthropic in 2024, it has become the de-facto 'robots.txt for the LLM era'.
Schema.org Structured Data
Schema.org is a structured-data vocabulary jointly maintained by Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex. Once annotated via JSON-LD, search engines and AI models can directly understand whether a page is an Article, Product, FAQ, or Organization — powering rich results and precise citations.
Agent Readiness at a glance
| Term | Agent Readiness |
|---|---|
| Category | GEO |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-06 |
References
- Google Search Central: SEO documentation
- Schema.org structured data vocabulary
- W3C JSON-LD 1.1 Recommendation
- GEO: Generative Engine Optimization (arXiv paper)
These documents support the definitions and methods, not ranking or citation promises; reviewed as of 2026-10-06.
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