Is ebird.org agent ready?

ebird.org is not yet agent ready: it scores 27/100 (grade F) on the w2agent rubric. Weakest areas: Agent Discovery (0), Agent Auth (10), Structured Data (21), Agent Protocols (30), Content Quality (37), Bot Accessibility (39).

27/ 100
Grade: F

Last checked

Scored Oct 14, 2026 · Rubric v3.0

Changed since last check

+4 points since the previous check (2026-09-16)

Fixed: Response time, Content length, Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)

Regressed: Security headers, Lists and tables for structured info

Changed: Public API surface (fail → partial), OpenGraph meta tags (fail → partial)

Category scores

Technical
67
Agent Auth
10
Agent Discovery
0
Agent Protocols
30
Content Quality
37
Structured Data
21
Bot Accessibility
39

Agent protocol panel

  • A2A agent cardNot found
  • OAuth discoveryNot found
  • MCP discoveryNot found
  • llms.txt validityNot measured

Check results

Bot Accessibility

  • ✓No error status codespass
  • ✓Response timepass
  • ✗XML sitemap existsfail
  • ✗AI agent accessfail
  • ✓Edge treatment of agent user-agentstracked, not scoredpass
  • ✓robots.txt existspass
  • ✗Content negotiation (Markdown)fail
  • —Declared AI usage preferencestracked, not scoredskip

Structured Data

  • ~OpenGraph meta tagspartial
  • ~Semantic HTML elementspartial
  • ✗Appropriate Schema.org typefail
  • —JSON-LD validskip
  • ✓Heading hierarchypass
  • ✗Schema.org JSON-LD presentfail
  • ✗Schema.org completenessfail

Content Quality

  • ✗FAQ contentfail
  • ✗Answer-first contentfail
  • ✓Content lengthpass
  • ✓Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)pass
  • ✗Freshness signalsfail
  • ✗Author attributionfail
  • ✓Citation readinesspass
  • ✗Lists and tables for structured infofail

Agent Discovery

  • —llms.txt follows specskip
  • ✗llms.txt existsfail
  • —MCP server cardtracked, not scoredskip
  • ✗Markdown alternate linksfail
  • ✗/.well-known/agent-card.jsonfail
  • —llms.txt links resolveskip

Agent Protocols

  • ✗Discoverable API endpointsfail
  • ✗MCP endpointfail
  • ✗Action schemasfail
  • —/.well-known/ucpskip
  • —Structured formsskip
  • —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 surfacepartial
  • —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
  • ✗OpenAPI specificationfail
  • —Agent/bot auth documentationskip
  • ✗OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)fail
  • ✗Developer portalfail
  • —Scoped API permissionsskip
  • ✗API catalog (RFC 9727)fail
  • —Agent operator signing directorytracked, not scoredskip

Technical

  • ✓HTTPSpass
  • ✓UTF-8 charsetpass
  • ✗Canonical URLsfail
  • ✓Mobile viewportpass
  • ✓Content accessible without JSpass
  • ✗Security headersfail

Score history

  • 27/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 23/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 24/100 · rubric v3.0

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