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title: "Scorecard: publishing | Am I Ready for Agents?"
description: "Agent readiness scorecard for publishing: 61.3 percent allow the main AI agents and 86.2 percent show readable home page text. Sourced and dated."
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# Scorecard: publishing | Am I Ready for Agents?

> Agent readiness scorecard for publishing: 61.3 percent allow the main AI agents and 86.2 percent show readable home page text. Sourced and dated.

Source: https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/publishers
Site: Am I Ready for Agents?
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

# Scorecard for publishers and media

## In short

In the crawl of 4 Nov 2026, 61.3 percent of publishing sites with a readable robots.txt allowed the four main AI agents, and 86.2 percent of home pages showed readable text to a plain fetch. The sample is 227 domains, a complete first edition. The largest share, 74 of 227 rows, comes from Ora's Gaming & Media category.

## The four numbers

-   61%allow the four main AI agents
    
    119 of 194 sites with a readable robots.txt let GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended in at the root
    
-   86%show readable text on the home page
    
    144 of 167 home pages gave a plain fetch 150 words or more of text, not a script-only shell
    
-   1%publish any act surface
    
    2 of 207 sites answered with an MCP manifest, an OpenAPI file, an agent card or agents.json at a standard path
    
-   0.5%publish a payment or commerce file
    
    1 of 209 sites answered with a UCP profile at /.well-known/ucp.json
    

## Against the whole crawl

| Measure | This sector | All crawled domains |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Allow main agents | 61.3% (119 of 194) | 84.4% (7,282 of 8,624) |
| Readable home page | 86.2% (144 of 167) | 84.9% (7,457 of 8,783) |
| Any act surface | 1% (2 of 207) | 2.1% (216 of 10,385) |
| Any payment surface | 0.5% (1 of 209) | 0.6% (62 of 10,439) |

The share allowing the main agents is 23.1 points below the crawl as a whole, and the share with readable home page text is 1.3 points above it.

## How this sector was sampled

227 domains fall in this sector. The sector figures use Ora leaderboard categories as stand-ins, not a definition of the sector: Gaming & Media (74 rows), News & Intelligence (36 rows), plus 117 domains placed by a keyword on the domain name. 221 answered a plain fetch. The percentages use the denominators shown in each row, because a site with no readable robots.txt, or a home page that did not return 200, cannot be counted in that measure.

The [methodology](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology) lists the category and keyword rules. Sector assignment by keyword is rough by design, and a site can sit in the wrong sector; the leaderboard category is the stronger signal. For context, Ora's own leaderboard averaged 48.6 out of 100 over 36 News & Intelligence entries on 5 Nov 2026 (vendor-published).

## What to do with it

-   Ask your web team for the same four checks on your own site: robots.txt rules for the four agents, home page text without scripts, any act file, any payment file.
-   Take the [publishing guide](https://amireadyforagents.com/for/publishers) to the meeting where those decisions are made.
-   Run the [self-check for publishing](https://amireadyforagents.com/self-check/publishers) to see which of your own answers are open.

## Sources

1.  [Scorecard methodology: the crawl of 4 Nov 2026](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology) (amireadyforagents.com/scorecards/methodology), read 4 Nov 2026.
2.  [Sector scorecards dataset, edition 4 Nov 2026](https://amireadyforagents.com/scorecards) (amireadyforagents.com/scorecards), read 4 Nov 2026.

Last reviewed 5 November 2026

Reviewed 5 November 2026. [2 sources](#sources), each with the day it was read.