Static pre-check · Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:52:07 GMT
mercury.com
AI agents cannot discover or access Mercury's banking service because the site lacks standard agent discovery files, documentation, and serves different content to non-browser clients.
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Discovery 9.7/22.2
Documentation linked from the homepagedetailsFAIL
no link to documentation found in the homepage HTML
Fix: Link your docs from the homepage with visible anchor text ("Docs", "Documentation", "Developers"). An agent that cannot find your docs from your homepage will guess your API.
robots.txt existsdetailsFAIL
robots.txt not served (HTTP 429)
Fix: Serve a /robots.txt. Without it, agent crawlers have to guess what they may fetch.
sitemap.xml exists and parsesdetailsFAIL
sitemap.xml not served (HTTP 429)
Fix: Publish /sitemap.xml listing your public pages, and reference it from robots.txt with a `Sitemap:` line.
Homepage has a descriptive titledetailsWARN
title is 98 characters (truncated in most surfaces)
Fix: Trim the <title> to 70 characters or fewer so it is not cut off.
API reference linked from the homepagedetailsPASS
2 API link(s), e.g. /api
Canonical URL declareddetailsPASS
https://mercury.com
Homepage has a meta descriptiondetailsPASS
121 characters
Open Graph tags presentdetailsPASS
og:title and og:description present
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
robots.txt allows agent crawlersdetailsN/A
no robots.txt to evaluate — nothing is blocked by rules that don't exist
robots.txt points at the sitemapdetailsN/A
no robots.txt
Accessibility 15/33.3
Homepage responds to an agent requestdetailsFAIL
HTTP 429 for an agent User-Agent
Fix: Return 200 for agent requests to the homepage. A non-2xx here means nothing downstream can be evaluated.
llms.txt is publisheddetailsFAIL
/llms.txt not served (HTTP 429)
Fix: Publish /llms.txt: a plain-markdown index that tells an agent what this product is and where the authoritative docs live. It is the cheapest high-leverage file you can add.
Same response for agents and browsersdetailsFAIL
browser got HTTP 200, agent User-Agent got HTTP 429
Fix: Your CDN or WAF is blocking non-browser clients. Allow well-identified bots, or at least return a 200 with readable content instead of a challenge page.
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 0.0097 — 8223 readable chars in 846834 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.
Served over HTTPSdetailsPASS
https://mercury.com/
Structured data (JSON-LD) on the homepagedetailsPASS
1 valid block(s)
Homepage has readable text without JavaScriptdetailsPASS
8223 characters of text in the served HTML
No long redirect chain on the homepagedetailsPASS
0 redirect(s)
Docs are readable without JavaScriptdetailsN/A
/docs not served (HTTP 429) — docs may live on another path or host
Links in llms.txt resolvedetailsN/A
no llms.txt
llms.txt is structured markdowndetailsN/A
no llms.txt to parse
Usability 22.2/44.4
agents.md is publisheddetailsWARN
/agents.md not served (HTTP 429)
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 429
Fix: Serve docs at the conventional /docs path, or redirect it to wherever they live. Agents try conventional paths first.
Errors are machine-readabledetailsWARN
a nonexistent path returned HTTP 429, not 404
Fix: Return 404 for paths that do not exist. A 200 on a missing page makes an agent believe it found something.
OpenAPI document publisheddetailsWARN
/openapi.json not served (HTTP 429)
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 429)
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 429 (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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