What does the agent readiness check test?

Real protocol probes of .well-known files (openapi.json, mcp.json, ai-plugin.json, security.txt), a live MCP initialize handshake, A2A agent-card validation, a 20-user-agent crawler audit, and a JS-parity check.

Is seed.com ready for AI agents?

AI agent readiness report · platform: Shopify · checked 2026-10-15 · log in to re-run

22%

Readiness

2/9

Verified

Shopify

Platform

Not agent-ready

Mcp

Webmcp

A2a

Anp

Ucp

Ap2

Openapi

Llms Txt

Wikidata

5/20 AI crawlers reached the homepage15 blocked

Ranks above 34% of 127 sites checkedcorpus avg 24/100

Not agent-ready

seed.com has 2 of 9 readable agent standards in place; missing Webmcp, A2a, Anp, Ap2, Openapi, Llms Txt, Wikidata.

Assessment

2 of 9 readable agent-readiness checks verified. Detected platform: Shopify. 15 AI crawler(s) blocked at the edge despite robots.txt allowing them. See per-protocol drawers for evidence and fix-it files.

Per-protocol verdicts

McpShopify storefront MCP exposed via shop.app for ChatGPT/Gemini/Copilot - platform-managed, not site-hostedVerified

Webmcpno navigator.modelContext.register, <script type="webmcp">, or <link rel="modelcontext"> in HTMLNot found

A2ano /.well-known/agent.json or /.well-known/agent-card.jsonNot found

Anpno /.well-known/did.jsonNot found

UcpShopify rolled out UCP platform-wide March 2026 - your storefront inherits itVerified

Ap2no /.well-known/ap2.jsonNot found

Openapino /openapi.json, /api/openapi.json, or /.well-known/openapi.jsonNot found

Llms Txtno /llms.txtNot found

Wikidatano Wikidata match for "Seed®"Not found

.well-known files

.well-known/mcp.jsonnot found404

Mcp Well Known Altnot found404

/mcp endpointnot found404

Ai Plugin Legacynot found404

.well-known/agent.jsonnot found404

.well-known/agent-card.jsonnot found404

Anp Didnot found404

Openapi Well Knownnot found404

Openapi Rootnot found404

Openapi Apinot found404

Ucp Well Knownnot found404

Ap2 Well Knownnot found404

Llms Txtnot found404

Llms Full Txtnot found404

robots.txt310 bytes200

sitemap.xml2872 bytes200

AI crawler audit

5 of 20 AI user-agents reached the homepage; 15 returned an error to a request carrying their user-agent string although robots.txt allows it.

ChatGPT-UserHTTP 403Blocked

anthropic-aiHTTP 403Blocked

ClaudeBotHTTP 403Blocked

Claude-UserHTTP 403Blocked

Claude-SearchBotHTTP 403Blocked

PerplexityBotHTTP 403Blocked

Perplexity-UserHTTP 403Blocked

Google-ExtendedHTTP 403Blocked

What the agent sees vs what you wrote

Could not read this store's products: the product feed (/products.json) returned 404, the homepage lists no products, the collection page lists no products, the sitemap lists no products, there were no product pages to read.

This is Shopify's Global Catalog - the index AI shopping agents read, not your live page. Price and stock update in real time; other fields lag a re-ingest. The inferred fields above come from Shopify's pipeline and cannot be edited or overridden directly - you only influence them by improving your source product data.

What this means for seed.com

On seed.com (Shopify), 2 of 9 readable agent standards are in place: Mcp, Ucp. Missing: Webmcp, A2a, Anp, Ap2, Openapi, Llms Txt, Wikidata.

Without JavaScript, your brand name does not appear in the raw HTML, so crawlers that do not run JS see an empty shell (detected a nextjs-data-blob hydration shell).

seed.com scores higher than 34% of the 127 sites checked here so far; the average readiness score is 24/100.

Make seed.com agent-ready on Shopify

seed.com runs on Shopify, which does not expose MCP or an A2A card out of the box. Add them through an app or a headless route at /.well-known/mcp.json and /.well-known/agent.json, and confirm the theme renders brand content in the no-JavaScript HTML. Start with Webmcp.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real probes or AI guesses?

Real probes. We fetch the actual files, run a real MCP initialize handshake, and validate A2A cards against their schema. No model decides a verdict.

Does seed.com need every standard to pass?

No. Start with the highest-impact gap above, then add the rest. Most sites win the most by shipping a working MCP endpoint and keeping the crawler path clean.

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Agent readiness on Shopify

We have checked 73 other sites on Shopify. The Shopify hub aggregates protocol verification rates and average readiness scores across every Shopify site checked here.

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