Agent readiness university: lessons and glossary
Short lessons and plain definitions, for readers who want the idea without the code.
Am I Ready for Agents? editors · Reviewed September 2026
Start with the Basics track, then learn to read your self-check result and a scanner report, then go area by area. Each lesson takes a few minutes, and each card shows its reading time. The glossary defines 42 terms in plain English.
Lessons
Basics
What agent readiness means, why agents fail, and what robots.txt can and cannot do.
The five areas of agent readiness
Find, read, act, pay and trust, and why the weakest one decides.
Why AI agents get stuck on websites
The common walls agents hit, in plain terms.
What robots.txt can ask, what bot rules enforce, and why they must agree.
Reading your results
How to read your self-check level and a scanner report, and why they differ.
How to read your self-check result
Levels, caps and not sure answers, and what to do with each.
How to read an agent readiness scanner report
What a scanner score tells you, and what it cannot.
Area by area
Readable pages, forms and sign-in, verification, and payments, one area at a time.
Making pages readable for agents
Text, structured data and markdown: the read area in plain terms.
Letting agents finish the task
Standard forms, guest paths, OAuth and interfaces built for agents.
IP ranges, reverse DNS and Web Bot Auth, and what verification allows.
Agent payments and fraud rules
Full prices, fraud rules and where agent payment approaches stand.