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title: "Index"
description: "AX Audit — measure your application agent-readiness score across 10 dimensions"
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# Index

Source: https://docs.ainative.studio/docs/ax-audit/index

> AX Audit — measure your application agent-readiness score across 10 dimensions

# AX Audit — AI Agent Readiness Scanner

AX Audit scans websites for AI agent readiness across **6 categories** aligned to the open [AgentReady AR-* standard](https://agentready.org), including **AR-PROV** (Agent Provisioning Readiness) — a category AINative authored and proposed upstream.

**Live at:** [ainative.ax](https://ainative.ax)

## Quick Start

### Scan a URL (no auth required)

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.ainative.studio/api/v1/public/ax-audit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://your-site.com"}'
```

**Response:**
```json
{
  "url": "https://your-site.com",
  "score": 61,
  "max_score": 100,
  "grade": "C",
  "checks": [
    {
      "name": "MCP Discovery",
      "passed": false,
      "score": 0,
      "max_score": 12,
      "details": "No MCP discovery endpoints found"
    }
  ],
  "scanned_at": "2026-06-21T00:00:00Z"
}
```

## 6 Categories (100 points total)

| Category | AR-* ID | Weight | What it checks |
|----------|---------|--------|---------------|
| **Discoverability** | AR-DISC | 12 | MCP server card, `.well-known/mcp.json` |
| **Agent Discoverability** | AR-DISC+ | 15 | llms.txt, agents.txt, agent.json, AGENTS.md, ai-plugin.json |
| **Content** | AR-CONT | 10 | JSON-LD, Schema.org, OpenGraph |
| **Capabilities** | AR-CAP | 10 | OpenAPI spec, /docs, /swagger, sdks.txt |
| **Machine-Readable** | - | 10 | robots.txt, sitemap.xml, RSS feeds |
| **Security** | - | 8 | security.txt (RFC 9116) |
| **Authentication** | AR-AUTH | 10 | OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Bearer, API keys |
| **Error Handling** | - | 10 | JSON error responses, proper status codes |
| **Rate Limiting** | - | 8 | X-RateLimit headers |
| **SSR Detection** | - | 7 | Server-side rendering for crawlability |

## Scoring Bands

| Score | Grade | Band |
|-------|-------|------|
| 98-100 | A++ | Good |
| 95-97 | A+ | Good |
| 90-94 | A | Good |
| 80-89 | B | Good |
| 70-79 | C | Needs Work |
| 50-69 | D | Needs Work |
| 0-49 | F | Poor |

## API Endpoints

### Quick Scan
```
POST /api/v1/public/ax-audit
```
No authentication. Returns score + 10 check results in ~60 seconds.

### Full Audit (with simulation + benchmark)
```
POST /api/v1/public/ax-audit/full
Body: {"url": "https://example.com", "industry": "saas"}
```
Returns stored report with agent simulation transcript and industry percentile ranking.

### Retrieve Report
```
GET /api/v1/public/ax-audit/reports/{report_id}
```

### Industry Benchmark
```
GET /api/v1/public/ax-audit/benchmark
GET /api/v1/public/ax-audit/benchmark/{industry}
```
Industries: saas, ecommerce, fintech, healthcare, media, education, enterprise, agency.

### Multi-Page Crawl
```
POST /api/v1/public/ax-audit/crawl
Body: {"url": "https://example.com"}
```
Crawls up to 500 pages (Pro tier) with per-page scores.

### Checkout (Stripe)
```
POST /api/v1/public/ax-audit/checkout
Body: {"tier": "pro", "billing": "monthly", "site_url": "https://ainative.ax"}
```
Creates a Stripe checkout session. Tiers: `pro`, `business`, `agency`.

## Pricing

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|------|-------|-------------|
| **Free** | $0 | 1 scan/day, full report, fix prompts |
| **Remediation** | $2,500 one-time | We fix your Discover→Authenticate gaps |
| **Monitoring** | $99/mo | Continuous re-audits, alerts, percentile tracking |
| **Provisioning** | Custom | AR-PROV conformance (the rung only AINative provides) |

## AR-PROV — The Category We Authored

AR-PROV (Agent Provisioning Readiness) defines what it means for a surface to be **provisioning-ready**: an AI agent can create and configure a new account, accept machine-readable terms, and receive scoped credentials — without a human completing a form.

- **Spec:** [spec/categories/ar-prov.md](https://github.com/AINative-Studio/ainative-ax/blob/main/spec/categories/ar-prov.md)
- **Upstream PR:** [agentready-org/standard#2](https://github.com/agentready-org/standard/pull/2)
- **Discovery:** `/.well-known/provisioning` profile + JSON Schema
- **3 conformance levels:** L1 Declared, L2 Programmatic, L3 Autonomous

## How to Improve Your Score

### Quick wins (get to 60+)
1. Add `/llms.txt` — summarize your site for AI crawlers
2. Add `/robots.txt` — allow GPTBot, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot
3. Add `/sitemap.xml` — list all important pages
4. Add JSON-LD structured data to every page
5. Add `/.well-known/security.txt` with Contact and Expires fields

### Intermediate (get to 80+)
6. Add `/.well-known/mcp.json` — MCP server card
7. Add `/openapi.json` — OpenAPI 3.1 spec
8. Add `/agent.json` — agent capability card
9. Add `X-RateLimit-*` headers
10. Ensure SSR (server-side rendering) for crawlable content

### Advanced (get to 90+)
11. Implement OAuth 2.0 + PKCE with discovery endpoints
12. Return JSON error responses (not HTML) for API routes
13. Add RSS/Atom feed
14. Add Content-Signal headers
15. Support Markdown content negotiation

## Integration with AINative Platform

AX Audit is part of the AINative platform. Developers on AINative can:

- **Scan from Claude Code:** Use the `/ax-test` skill to audit any site
- **Monitor in dashboard:** Track AX score over time
- **Automate with agents:** Scout agent can monitor competitor AX scores
- **Use the API:** Integrate scanning into CI/CD pipelines
- **SEO validation:** Use the `/seo-validator` skill to check content against Google's guidelines