Static pre-check · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:52:14 GMT
circle.com
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Discovery 22.2/22.2
API reference linked from the homepagedetailsPASS
2 API link(s), e.g. https://developers.circle.com/api-reference/wallets/common/ping
Canonical URL declareddetailsPASS
https://www.circle.com/
Documentation linked from the homepagedetailsPASS
5 docs link(s), e.g. /developer
Homepage has a meta descriptiondetailsPASS
138 characters
Homepage has a descriptive titledetailsPASS
'Circle | The full-stack platform for the internet financial system' (66 chars)
Open Graph tags presentdetailsPASS
og:title and og:description present
robots.txt allows agent crawlersdetailsPASS
all 6 agent crawlers may fetch /
robots.txt existsdetailsPASS
HTTP 200, 5298 bytes
robots.txt points at the sitemapdetailsPASS
robots.txt has a Sitemap: line
sitemap.xml exists and parsesdetailsPASS
2332 URL(s) listed
Brand findable in agent searchdetailsN/A
search-based checks are deferred — excluded from the score
Listed in an MCP registrydetailsN/A
registry lookup not implemented in v1 — excluded from the score rather than guessed
Accessibility 30.5/33.3
llms-full.txt is publisheddetailsWARN
/llms-full.txt not served
Fix: Optional but cheap: publish /llms-full.txt with your docs inlined as one markdown file, so an agent can read everything in a single fetch.
Serves markdown when asked for itdetailsWARN
Accept: text/markdown → text/html; charset=utf-8
Fix: Optional but increasingly expected: honour `Accept: text/markdown` by serving a markdown rendering of the page, so agents skip HTML parsing entirely.
Content-to-markup ratio is reasonabledetailsWARN
ratio 0.047 — 20285 readable chars in 431186 bytes of HTML
Fix: Most of what you serve is markup and inline script rather than content. Reduce inline payloads or server-render more text so the signal-to-noise ratio favours readers.
Homepage responds to an agent requestdetailsPASS
HTTP 200 for / (agent UA)
Served over HTTPSdetailsPASS
https://www.circle.com/
Structured data (JSON-LD) on the homepagedetailsPASS
1 valid block(s) (Corporation)
llms.txt is publisheddetailsPASS
HTTP 200, 9814 bytes
Links in llms.txt resolvedetailsPASS
5 sampled link(s) all resolve
llms.txt is structured markdowndetailsPASS
has headings and markdown links
Same response for agents and browsersdetailsPASS
both User-Agents got HTTP 200
Homepage has readable text without JavaScriptdetailsPASS
20285 characters of text in the served HTML
No long redirect chain on the homepagedetailsPASS
1 redirect(s)
Docs are readable without JavaScriptdetailsN/A
/docs not served (HTTP 404) — docs may live on another path or host
Usability 22.2/44.4
agents.md is publisheddetailsWARN
/agents.md not served (HTTP 404)
Fix: Publish /agents.md: what an agent may do here, which endpoints matter, auth requirements, and rate limits. It is the agent-facing counterpart to a README.
A documentation endpoint respondsdetailsWARN
/docs → HTTP 404
Fix: Serve docs at the conventional /docs path, or redirect it to wherever they live. Agents try conventional paths first.
Errors are machine-readabledetailsWARN
404 returns HTML, not a machine-readable body
Fix: Content-negotiate your errors: return a JSON body with a stable `code` (and a `next_action` where recovery exists) to clients that ask for JSON.
OpenAPI document publisheddetailsWARN
/openapi.json not served (HTTP 404)
Fix: If you have an HTTP API, publish its OpenAPI document at a predictable path (/openapi.json). It is the difference between an agent reading your contract and an agent guessing it. If you have no HTTP API, ignore this.
.well-known/mcp.json advertises an MCP serverdetailsWARN
/.well-known/mcp.json not served (HTTP 404)
Fix: If you run an MCP server, advertise it at /.well-known/mcp.json so agents discover it without being told its URL.
The /api root behaves predictablydetailsN/A
/api → HTTP 404 (no API at the conventional root)
MCP server completes the initialize handshakedetailsN/A
no MCP endpoint found to probe (none in the input URL and none advertised at /.well-known/mcp.json)
MCP tool parameters are typed and describeddetailsN/A
no listed MCP tools to inspect
Every MCP tool has a descriptiondetailsN/A
no listed MCP tools to inspect
MCP server lists toolsdetailsN/A
no MCP endpoint to probe
OpenAPI declares its auth schemedetailsN/A
no parseable OpenAPI document
OpenAPI operations are describeddetailsN/A
no parseable OpenAPI document
OpenAPI documents error responsesdetailsN/A
no parseable OpenAPI document
OpenAPI document is structurally validdetailsN/A
no parseable OpenAPI document
Payments not applicable — excluded from the score
Serves a 402 payment challengedetailsN/A
no agent-payment rail published — not applicable. This layer is excluded from the score rather than counted against the site.
Declares AP2 / ACP supportdetailsN/A
no agent-payment rail published — not applicable. This layer is excluded from the score rather than counted against the site.
Publishes x402 payment metadatadetailsN/A
no agent-payment rail published — not applicable. This layer is excluded from the score rather than counted against the site.
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