What is agent-readiness?

Agent-readiness is whether an AI agent — a chatbot answering a question, a shopping agent comparing products, a browser acting for its user — can find, read and correctly quote your website. It is a property of your site's machine-readable surface, and it is checkable.

That surface has four parts. A discovery surface: llms.txt and a sitemap, so an agent finds the map instead of guessing. An access policy: a robots.txt and a CDN that let AI crawlers in — many sites block them by accident and never notice. Structured data: JSON-LD that states what your business is, so the agent does not have to infer it from your layout. And machine endpoints: /.well-known/, content negotiation, the newer conventions agents probe first.

None of this guarantees that an assistant will cite you — nobody can guarantee that. What it guarantees is the checkable precondition: when an agent does come, nothing on your side silently turns it away or feeds it something unparseable. Sichta runs 17 deterministic checks across those four parts, fixes what fails, and verifies the fixes on the live site.