Is modelcontextprotocol.io agent ready?

modelcontextprotocol.io is partly agent ready: it scores 59/100 (grade C) on the w2agent rubric.

59/ 100
Grade: C

Last checked

Scored Sep 16, 2026 · Rubric v3.0

Changed since last check

No change in score since the previous check (2026-09-15)

Category scores

Category breakdown not recorded for this audit.

Agent protocol panel

  • A2A agent cardPresent
  • OAuth discoveryNot found
  • MCP discoveryPresent
  • llms.txt validityPresent

Check results

Bot Accessibility

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

Structured Data

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

Content Quality

  • ✓FAQ contentpass
  • ✗Answer-first contentfail
  • ✓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 scoredpass
  • ✓Markdown alternate linkspass
  • ~/.well-known/agent-card.jsonpartial
  • ✓llms.txt links resolvepass

Agent Protocols

  • ✗Discoverable API endpointsfail
  • ✓MCP endpointpass
  • ✗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 URLspass
  • ✓Mobile viewportpass
  • ✓Content accessible without JSpass
  • ✓Security headerspass

Other

  • ✗nextjs-metadata-apifail
  • ~nextjs-static-generationpartial
  • ✓nextjs-well-known-servedpass

Score history

  • 59/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 59/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 55/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 55/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 53/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 52/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 49/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 49/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 49/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 48/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 49/100 · rubric v2.0

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