Is openrouter.ai agent ready?

openrouter.ai is largely agent ready: it scores 75/100 (grade B) on the w2agent rubric.

75/ 100
Grade: B

Last checked

Scored Sep 16, 2026 · Rubric v3.0

Changed since last check

−1 points since the previous check (2026-09-15)

Regressed: Response time

Category scores

Category breakdown not recorded for this audit.

Agent protocol panel

  • A2A agent cardNot found
  • OAuth discoveryPresent
  • MCP discoveryPresent
  • llms.txt validityPresent

Check results

Bot Accessibility

  • ✓No error status codespass
  • ~Response timepartial
  • ✓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 scoredskip

Structured Data

  • ✓OpenGraph meta tagspass
  • ~Semantic HTML elementspartial
  • ~Appropriate Schema.org typepartial
  • ~JSON-LD validpartial
  • ✓Heading hierarchypass
  • ~Schema.org JSON-LD presentpartial
  • ~Schema.org completenesspartial

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 specpass
  • ✓llms.txt existspass
  • —MCP server cardtracked, not scoredskip
  • ✓Markdown alternate linkspass
  • ✗/.well-known/agent-card.jsonfail
  • ✓llms.txt links resolvepass

Agent Protocols

  • ✓Discoverable API endpointspass
  • ✓MCP endpointpass
  • ✓Action schemaspass
  • —/.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 supportpass
  • ✗Public API surfacefail
  • —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
  • —OpenAPI specificationskip
  • ✓Agent/bot auth documentationpass
  • ✓OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)pass
  • ✓Developer portalpass
  • ✗Scoped API permissionsfail
  • —API catalog (RFC 9727)skip
  • —Agent operator signing directorytracked, not scoredskip

Technical

  • ✓HTTPSpass
  • ✓UTF-8 charsetpass
  • ✓Canonical URLspass
  • ✓Mobile viewportpass
  • ✓Content accessible without JSpass
  • ✓Security headerspass

Other

  • ✓nextjs-metadata-apipass
  • ✓nextjs-static-generationpass
  • ✗nextjs-well-known-servedfail

Score history

  • 75/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 76/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 62/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 62/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 62/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 61/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 55/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 55/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 56/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 59/100 · rubric v2.0

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