Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents? Here's a Checklist 🤖

Making a website AI-friendly is more than adding an llms.txt file and hoping for the best.

I put together 8 practical steps, each with a test you can run yourself, covering:

• Serving content directly in HTML
• Configuring robots.txt intentionally
• Keeping sitemaps and feeds fresh
• Publishing Markdown versions of pages
• Supporting coding agents with llms.txt
• Making your site discoverable through MCP
• Measuring verified AI crawler traffic

The checklist is based on real crawler logs from my site, along with current standards and documentation.

The goal: less guessing, more evidence.

👉 Read the full checklist

Question: What have you found actually helps AI crawlers discover and understand your website?