{"slug": "the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents", "title": "The Agent Readiness Course: Make Your Site Legible to AI Agents", "summary": "A new course, 'The Agent Readiness Course,' teaches web developers how to make their sites legible to AI agents by implementing standards like robots.txt, sitemaps, JSON-LD structured data, llms.txt, OpenAPI specs, agents.json, and WebMCP. The course includes a Core Agent Vitals analyzer to measure page readiness against these standards.", "body_md": "People increasingly don't visit your site — an **AI agent visits it for them**, reads what it can, and reports back. Whether that agent finds you, understands you, and can act for you comes down to a handful of concrete web standards. This course covers all of them, foundational to emerging, each with copy-paste implementation and a way to measure it.\n\nMeasure any page against every one of these with the [Core Agent Vitals analyzer](https://agentvitals.dev/analyze) — its **Agent Discoverability** panel links each check straight back to the matching lesson below.\n\n## Module 1 — Foundations: can an agent read it?\n\nThe standards agents already respect. Get these wrong and you're invisible.\n\n— let the right AI crawlers in; a stale[AI-Aware robots.txt](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-robots-txt)`Disallow`\n\nerases you from agent answers.— the table of contents that gets your deep pages found.[Sitemaps for Agent Discovery](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-sitemaps)— tell agents what a page[JSON-LD Structured Data](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-json-ld)*is*, in typed facts, not prose.\n\n## Module 2 — LLM-native: is it legible and callable?\n\nPurpose-built signals for language models and tool use.\n\n— a curated, machine-readable map an agent reads in one cheap fetch.[llms.txt & llms-full.txt](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-llms-txt)— an OpenAPI spec turns your API from guessed to callable.[API Docs for Agent Tool Use](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-openapi)\n\n## Module 3 — Emerging: can an agent operate it?\n\nWhere the agentic web is heading — early, optional, worth understanding now.\n\n— declare what your site can[agents.json Capability Declaration](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-agents-json)*do*, not just what it says.— let agents call your actions directly instead of scraping.[WebMCP for Websites](https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-webmcp)\n\nStart at lesson 1, or jump to whatever your [analyzer results](https://agentvitals.dev/analyze) flag as missing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents", "canonical_source": "https://blog.r-lopes.com/posts/agent-readiness-course", "published_at": "2026-07-02 14:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-03 21:15:12.185542+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Core Agent Vitals", "OpenAPI", "JSON-LD", "WebMCP", "llms.txt", "agents.json", "robots.txt", "sitemaps"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-agent-readiness-course-make-your-site-legible-to-ai-agents.jsonld"}}