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Scoring Rubric — Five Pillars, 100 Points

The rubric scores every property in five pillars summing to 100 points.

PillarWeightMeasuresOwner
1. Crawl & Discovery20 ptsrobots.txt with AI-bot rules, sitemap validity, canonicals, Link headers, no-JS discoverabilityEngineering
2. Content Legibility25 ptsMarkdown content negotiation and URL-suffix fallback, SSR, token-efficient output, llms.txt, semantic HTMLEngineering + Content
3. Answer-Engine Quality30 ptsEntity clarity, E-E-A-T, answer-first structure, FAQ / definition / comparison patterns, freshness governance, primary-source citations (Framix-only — not in Cloudflare’s rubric)Content + SEO
4. Bot Access & Trust10 ptsContent Signals in robots.txt, AI-bot governance, Web Bot Auth verification (when site originates bot traffic), AI-crawler analyticsEngineering
5. Capabilities & Commerce15 ptsAPI Catalog (RFC 9727), OAuth metadata (RFC 8414/9728), MCP Server Card (SEP-2127), Agent Skills index, A2A Agent Card, x402 payment flowsEngineering (conditional)

Pillar 5 drops to N/A on pure-content sites with no APIs or transactional surface; weights re-normalise across pillars 1–4. On agent-targeted SaaS or commerce properties, Pillar 5 weight increases to 25 pts, drawn from Pillar 3.

How this maps to Cloudflare’s IsItAgentReady

Section titled “How this maps to Cloudflare’s IsItAgentReady”
Cloudflare categoryFramix pillarNotes
Discoverability1Same scope
Content Accessibility2Same scope
Bot Access Control4Cloudflare adds Web Bot Auth as a check
Protocol Discovery5MCP Server Card, Agent Skills, WebMCP, API Catalog, OAuth
Commerce5x402, MPP, UCP, ACP — tracked in Cloudflare, not yet scored
(none)3Framix-only. Authority, citations, and answer structure.

The five pillars map onto the two-layer model — Pillars 1, 2, 4, 5 measure Layer A (Agent Readiness); Pillar 3 alone measures Layer B (GEO Visibility).

Item-level checklist in Universal Requirements.