The excellent Michael (@mluggy) shared a guide on preparing your website for AI agents. I immediately tested my own site with the audit skill included there, and the result was pretty bad: 25 out of 73, a 34 percent score. One pass, four partials, five fails, and fifteen not-applicable.
Wait, did I not build this site with agents in mind?
When I built the site with Claude I did of course ask it to prepare the site so agents and language models could read it. So I had asked... and this is what asking without a checklist gets you. A generic "make it agent-friendly" instruction produces generic results. An audit against a concrete checklist finds the actual gaps.
How did the fix session go?
I handed Claude three things: the audit report, the repository, and the blog, and asked it to go through and fix everything relevant. Some items I did myself, some it did, and some we did together. Not everything in the checklist applied to my site, which is fine; knowing what to skip is part of the value.
After the session, the report looked completely different:
Before: 25 / 73 (34 percent). After: 64 / 82 (78 percent). One report, one working session with Claude.
Why does this matter right now?
If you have a business website, this migration really matters. Day by day, agents and language models make up a growing share of global browsing traffic. When someone asks an assistant "find me a consultant who does X", the sites that assistant can actually parse are the sites that get recommended. If your services, pricing, and contact details are not machine-readable, you do not exist in that conversation.
Making your information accessible to language models is becoming as basic as mobile support was a decade ago. It is also a natural first step in a broader question I help companies answer in AI consulting engagements: where do agents already touch your business, and is your infrastructure ready for them? For the sites and apps I build in development projects, agent readability is now part of the definition of done.
FAQ
Why should a business website be readable by AI agents?
A growing share of web traffic is agents and language models reading on behalf of people. If they cannot parse your services, pricing, and contact details, you simply do not exist in those conversations. Making the information machine-readable is becoming as basic as mobile support.
How do I check if my site is agent-ready?
Run an audit against an agent-readability checklist; I used a published skill that scores your site across dozens of checks. Then hand the report, the repository, and the blog to Claude and work through what is relevant. My score went from 34 percent to 78 percent in one working session.