Agent Readiness Index
The agent era asks a new question:
can an AI agent actually use this service on your behalf — find the facts, do the job, and pay for it?
Ten criteria, 0–10 each, plain mean, every claim sourced and dated. Rubric v1.0.
How we score →
Site scanners answer whether one URL is
crawlable. This answers whether a business can hand a service to an agent — including what the terms allow,
how automation is priced, and whether money can move without a human clicking.
SCORE 9/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-ready benchmark
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue”
The reference implementation for agent commerce: Stripe co-authors both ACP and MPP, runs an official MCP server at mcp.stripe.com, and issues merchant- and amount-scoped payment credentials. The main friction is a read-request allocation that penalises poll-heavy agents.
PaymentsOfficial MCPAgent paymentsSMB relevant
Agent payment rails
ACP, MPP
FIND & RETRIEVE · 9.5
Sf9.5
Machine-readable surface
Iq9
Information retrieval quality
Dx10
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 9.6
Pt10
Agent protocol support
Au9.5
Access & auth friction
Py10
Agent payment capability
Cf8.5
Cost & rate fairness
TRUST & DURABILITY · 9.0
Ts9
Permission & ToS stance
Rl9
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 9/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-ready benchmark
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“Build for the agent era”
Seventeen official MCP servers, an OpenAPI-backed v4 API and first-party x402/MPP support make this the most agent-usable vendor in the index. Conflict noted: Cloudflare also sells the rival Agent Readiness score and gates AI crawlers on customer sites.
Internet infrastructureOfficial MCPAgent paymentsSMB relevant
Service
www.cloudflare.com
Category
Internet infrastructure
Agent payment rails
X402, MPP
FIND & RETRIEVE · 9.3
Sf9.5
Machine-readable surface
Iq9
Information retrieval quality
Dx9.3
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 9.1
Pt10
Agent protocol support
Au9.3
Access & auth friction
Py8.5
Agent payment capability
Cf8.5
Cost & rate fairness
TRUST & DURABILITY · 8.5
Ts8.5
Permission & ToS stance
Rl8.5
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 9/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-ready benchmark
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“The complete developer platform”
The index's protocol benchmark: an official remote MCP server GA since 04/09/2025, published OpenAPI descriptions, and Terms that explicitly permit machine accounts. The gap is money — plans and Marketplace apps are still bought by a human in the UI.
Developer platformOfficial MCPSMB relevant
Category
Developer platform
Agent payment rails
None published
FIND & RETRIEVE · 9.2
Sf9
Machine-readable surface
Iq9
Information retrieval quality
Dx9.5
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 8.5
Pt10
Agent protocol support
Au9
Access & auth friction
Py5
Agent payment capability
TRUST & DURABILITY · 9.0
Ts9
Permission & ToS stance
Rl9
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 9/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-ready benchmark
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“More than ecommerce software”
Shopify co-authored UCP with Google and ships official Catalog, Cart, Checkout and Order MCP servers; since 17 June 2026 agent registration is self-serve. But general-access agents must hand the buyer a continue_url — calling complete_checkout directly stays permission-gated.
E-commerce platformOfficial MCPAgent paymentsSMB relevant
Category
E-commerce platform
Agent payment rails
UCP, AP2
FIND & RETRIEVE · 9.0
Sf9
Machine-readable surface
Iq9
Information retrieval quality
Dx9
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 9.0
Pt9.8
Agent protocol support
Au8.5
Access & auth friction
Py9
Agent payment capability
Cf8.5
Cost & rate fairness
TRUST & DURABILITY · 7.8
Ts8
Permission & ToS stance
Rl7.5
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 7/10
10/10 criteria · Strong
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“Where teams and agents think together”
One of the smoothest agent onboardings: official hosted MCP at mcp.notion.com plus a date-versioned REST API, both free on every plan. Ceilings are ~3 requests/second per connection, OAuth-only MCP that needs a human present, and no billing API at all.
Productivity / workspace platformOfficial MCPSMB relevant
Category
Productivity / workspace platform
Agent payment rails
None published
FIND & RETRIEVE · 7.8
Sf7.5
Machine-readable surface
Iq7.5
Information retrieval quality
Dx8.5
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 6.6
Pt9
Agent protocol support
Au8
Access & auth friction
Py2
Agent payment capability
Cf6.5
Cost & rate fairness
TRUST & DURABILITY · 7.8
Ts8
Permission & ToS stance
Rl7.5
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 7/10
10/10 criteria · Strong
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“The AI work platform”
Slack shipped an official MCP server (GA 17/02/2026) and courts agent builders, but its May 2025 terms cut conversations.history to 1 request per minute for commercially distributed non-Marketplace apps and ban using Slack data to train an LLM.
Team communication platformOfficial MCPSMB relevant
Category
Team communication platform
Agent payment rails
None published
FIND & RETRIEVE · 8.0
Sf8.5
Machine-readable surface
Iq7
Information retrieval quality
Dx8.5
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 5.9
Pt9
Agent protocol support
Au5.5
Access & auth friction
Py2
Agent payment capability
Cf4.5
Cost & rate fairness
TRUST & DURABILITY · 6.0
Ts5.5
Permission & ToS stance
Rl6.5
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 4/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-hostile
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“Build with X's real-time global data”
An official MCP server sits on top of a hostile action surface: since 02/2026 self-serve apps cannot like, follow, quote-post or reply unsolicited, and a post containing a link costs $0.20 against $0.015 without one.
Social platformOfficial MCP
Agent payment rails
None published
FIND & RETRIEVE · 5.3
Sf3.5
Machine-readable surface
Iq5.5
Information retrieval quality
Dx7
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 4.5
Pt6
Agent protocol support
Au7
Access & auth friction
Py2
Agent payment capability
TRUST & DURABILITY · 2.5
Ts3
Permission & ToS stance
Rl2
Reliability & continuity
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Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.
SCORE 3/10
10/10 criteria · Agent-hostile
Assessed 2026-07-25 · ARI v1.0
“Let's bring your ideas to life”
Beyond OAuth sign-in and 150 posts/day per member, every API is partner-gated behind multi-month review; messaging, connections and people search have no API at all, there is no official MCP server, and LinkedIn litigates scrapers out of existence.
Social platformSMB relevant
Service
developer.linkedin.com
Agent protocol
Community only
Agent payment rails
None published
FIND & RETRIEVE · 3.7
Sf2
Machine-readable surface
Iq2.5
Information retrieval quality
Dx6.5
Documentation for machines
ACT & TRANSACT · 2.4
Pt3
Agent protocol support
Au2
Access & auth friction
Py1.5
Agent payment capability
TRUST & DURABILITY · 3.2
Ts1
Permission & ToS stance
Rl5.5
Reliability & continuity
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Full readiness passport →
Point-in-time assessment — services change terms, prices and APIs often. That volatility is itself scored under Reliability & continuity. Re-verified at least quarterly.