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78Readiness score / 100
L3 Agent-operableBeats 94% of 1,846 companies
Access6/20
Context19/20
Interfaces32/32
Onboarding16/19
Trust5/9
llms.txt · docs
MCP · https://api.perplexity.ai/mcp
OpenAPI · https://docs.perplexity.ai/openapi.json

Biggest gains

  1. +10 Agents get the real page, not a bot wall. Serve the homepage to AI user-agents (Claude-User, ChatGPT-User) without a challenge or 403.
  2. +4 Content is server-rendered. Ship at least 1,000 characters of real text in the HTML, without needing JavaScript.
  3. +4 Agent manifests. Publish an MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp.json) or A2A agent card.
All 20 checks
  • FAILAgents get the real page, not a bot wall10
  • PASSrobots.txt lets user-triggered agents in6
  • FAILContent is server-rendered4
  • PASSllms.txt exists8
  • PASSllms-full.txt exists3
  • PASSDocs available as markdown6
  • PASSSitemap2
  • FAILStructured metadata1
  • PASSPublic developer docs4
  • PASSMachine-readable API spec8
  • PASSRemote MCP server for the product12
  • PASSDocs MCP or searchable docs4
  • PASSSDKs and a CLI4
  • PASSOAuth discovery metadata5
  • PASSAgents can self-register OAuth clients6
  • PASSSelf-serve API keys5
  • FAILFree tier or test mode3
  • FAILAgent manifests4
  • PASSsecurity.txt2
  • PASSPublic status page3

Your fix pack: 6 changes, up to +22 points

Each change is ready to paste, filled in for perplexity.ai, with a command to check it worked. Or hand the whole list to your coding agent.

Your homepage returned a challenge or 403 to a Claude-User agent. Agents acting for a person give up and pick a competitor.

Where: Your WAF or bot-management rules (Cloudflare, Akamai, Vercel Firewall, AWS WAF)
Cloudflare: Security > WAF > Custom rules > Create rule
  Name: Allow user-triggered AI agents
  Expression:
    (http.user_agent contains "Claude-User") or (http.user_agent contains "ChatGPT-User")
    or (http.user_agent contains "Perplexity-User") or (http.user_agent contains "OAI-SearchBot")
    or (http.user_agent contains "Claude-SearchBot")
  Action: Skip > All remaining custom rules, Super Bot Fight Mode, Browser Integrity Check

Also in Security > Bots: turn on "Allow verified bots".
Keep rate limits on; only the challenge page is the problem.
Check it worked:curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -A "Claude-User/1.0" https://perplexity.ai/ # expect 200

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