Is sift.com agent ready?

sift.com is largely agent ready: it scores 64/100 (grade B) on the w2agent rubric.

64/ 100
Grade: B

Last checked

Scored Sep 16, 2026 · Rubric v3.0

Changed since last check

+2 points since the previous check (2026-09-15)

Fixed: Reachable as ChatGPT-User, Reachable as Perplexity-User

Changed: Response time (partial → fail)

Category scores

Category breakdown not recorded for this audit.

Agent protocol panel

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

Check results

Bot Accessibility

  • ✓No error status codespass
  • ✗Response timefail
  • ✓XML sitemap existspass
  • ✓AI agent accesspass
  • ✓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 tagspass
  • ~Semantic HTML elementspartial
  • ✓Appropriate Schema.org typepass
  • ~JSON-LD validpartial
  • ✓Heading hierarchypass
  • ✓Schema.org JSON-LD presentpass
  • ✗Schema.org completenessfail

Content Quality

  • ✓FAQ contentpass
  • ~Answer-first contentpartial
  • ✓Content lengthpass
  • ✓Token efficiency (HTML-to-text ratio)pass
  • ✓Freshness signalspass
  • ✗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 schemasfail
  • ✗/.well-known/ucpfail
  • ✓Structured formspass
  • —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)partial
  • ✗PKCE S256 supportfail
  • ✗Public API surfacefail
  • —Client ID Metadata Documents (bonus)skip
  • —OpenAPI specificationskip
  • ✗Agent/bot auth documentationfail
  • ✗OAuth discovery chain (RFC 9728 → RFC 8414)fail
  • ✓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

  • —ecommerce-gtin-validskip
  • ✓wp-page-builder-souppass
  • ✗wp-rest-api-accessiblefail
  • —ecommerce-product-schemaskip
  • ✓wp-security-blocking-botspass
  • ✓wp-robots-default-blockingpass
  • —ecommerce-checkout-accessibleskip

Score history

  • 64/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 62/100 · rubric v3.0
  • 35/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 35/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 35/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 49/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 35/100 · rubric v2.0
  • 52/100 · rubric v2.0

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