Is alpaca.markets agent ready?
alpaca.markets is partly agent ready: it scores 58/100 (grade C) on the w2agent rubric. Weakest areas: Agent Discovery (33), Agent Protocols (42).
Changed since last check
−7 points since the previous check (2026-09-16)
Fixed: Response time
Regressed: Public API surface, MCP endpoint
Changed: Security headers (partial → fail)
Category scores
Technical
66
Agent Auth
50
Agent Discovery
33
Agent Protocols
42
Content Quality
72
Structured Data
66
Bot Accessibility
73
Agent protocol panel
- A2A agent cardNot found
- OAuth discoveryNot measured
- MCP discoveryNot found
- llms.txt validityPresent
Check results
Bot Accessibility
- ~No error status codespartial
- ✓Response timepass
- ✓XML sitemap existspass
- ✓AI agent accesspass
- ?Edge treatment of agent user-agentstracked, not scorederror
- ✗robots.txt existsfail
- ✗Content negotiation (Markdown)fail
- —Declared AI usage preferencestracked, not scoredskip
Structured Data
- ✓OpenGraph meta tagspass
- ✓Semantic HTML elementspass
- ✓Appropriate Schema.org typepass
- ✓JSON-LD validpass
- ~Heading hierarchypartial
- ~Schema.org JSON-LD presentpartial
- ~Schema.org completenesspartial
Content Quality
- ✓FAQ contentpass
- ✓Answer-first contentpass
- ✓Content lengthpass
- ✓Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)pass
- ✗Freshness signalsfail
- ✗Author attributionfail
- ✓Citation readinesspass
- ✓Lists and tables for structured infopass
Agent Discovery
- ~llms.txt follows specpartial
- ✓llms.txt existspass
- —MCP server cardtracked, not scoredskip
- ✗Markdown alternate linksfail
- ✗/.well-known/agent-card.jsonfail
- ✓llms.txt links resolvepass
Agent Protocols
- ✓Discoverable API endpointspass
- ✗MCP endpointfail
- ✗Action schemasfail
- —/.well-known/ucpskip
- ✗Structured formsfail
- —WebMCP imperative APItracked, not scoredskip
- —WebMCP declarative APItracked, not scoredskip
- ✓Reachable as Google-Agentpass
- ✓Reachable as ChatGPT-Userpass
- ✓Reachable as Perplexity-Userpass
Agent Auth
- —MCP authorization (401 challenge → protected resource metadata)skip
- —PKCE S256 supportskip
- ✗Public API surfacefail
- —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
- —OpenAPI specificationskip
- ✓Agent/bot auth documentationpass
- —OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)skip
- —Developer portalskip
- —Scoped API permissionsskip
- —API catalog (RFC 9727)skip
- —Agent operator signing directorytracked, not scoredskip
Technical
- ✓HTTPSpass
- ✓UTF-8 charsetpass
- ~Canonical URLspartial
- ✓Mobile viewportpass
- ✓Content accessible without JSpass
- ✗Security headersfail
Other
- ✗nextjs-metadata-apifail
- ~nextjs-static-generationpartial
- ✗nextjs-well-known-servedfail
Score history
- 58/100 · rubric v3.0
- 65/100 · rubric v3.0
- 61/100 · rubric v3.0
- 67/100 · rubric v2.0
- 67/100 · rubric v2.0
- 67/100 · rubric v2.0
- 66/100 · rubric v2.0
- 56/100 · rubric v2.0
- 59/100 · rubric v2.0
- 60/100 · rubric v2.0
- 59/100 · rubric v2.0