Webflow: the 360 agent-readiness check
Webflow scores 78 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a B, read 9 November 2026. Of the five surfaces an agent acts on, Ora found 3: a public API, OAuth, a command line. Twenty-four skills and a server card, and no specification to describe the API.
On 9 November 2026 the public site at webflow.com scored 78 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a B, in Ora's Commerce Tools category. Ora probes a site the way an agent would: it requests pages with the agents' own user agents, reads robots.txt, looks for the files agents read, and tries the API, MCP and payment surfaces. This check reads the act layer first, because that is what the directory records, then the door, what an agent can read, and whether the company is found and recommended. Ora's one-line summary: Webflow offers a published SDK and MCP registry presence, but lacks a published OpenAPI specification and declared scoped permissions for agents.
The score
| Layer | Asks | Points | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usability | Can agents use it | 56 of 81 | 69% |
| Access | Can agents read it | 53 of 61 | 87% |
| Discovery | Can agents find and recommend it | 15 of 18 | 83% |
| Payments | Can agents pay | 0 of 0 | none apply |
| Total | Grade B | 78 of 100 | 78% |
What an agent can do
The surfaces an agent acts on: an API it can find and call, an MCP server, an agent card, OAuth metadata, a command line. This is the layer the directory records, so it comes first. One check in this group does not apply to this site and is left out.
In the directory, Webflow sign-in required, tools not seen, not counted; the connector run of 4 November 2026 is on the entry page. Ora's MCP server check for the same domain reads partial; the two look for different things, the directory for a server that answers a handshake and lists tools, Ora for a server it can find from the site.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server / manifest mcp-server | Partial | 5 of 6 | MCP server detected at https://mcp.webflow.com/mcp; it requires authentication. Presence is verified (5/6), but Ora could not inspect its tools or verify access scopes without credentials. |
| MCP well-known discovery mcp-well-known-discovery | Pass | 2 of 2 | MCP server discoverable via server-card.json at /.well-known/mcp/ |
| Public API with reachable endpoints public-api | Pass | 7 of 7 | REST API documentation found at https://developers.webflow.com. Best-of-protocols score: 7/7. |
| Public API/docs linked from homepage public-api-docs | Pass | 3 of 3 | Documentation site found at https://developers.webflow.com |
| Developer portal developer-portal | Pass | 6 of 6 | Developer portal found at https://developers.webflow.com |
| OpenAPI spec published openapi-spec | Fail | 0 of 7 | No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) api-catalog-rfc9727 | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/api-catalog found (RFC 9727) |
| A2A / agent-card a2a-agent-card | Fail | 0 of 2 | No A2A agent card found at /.well-known/agent-card.json |
| Agent discovery file agent-discovery-file | Pass | 2 of 2 | Agent Skills index (agentskills.io) found at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json with 24 skill(s) |
| OAuth 2.0 support oauth-support | Pass | 5 of 5 | OAuth authorization server metadata at https://mcp.webflow.com |
| OAuth Protected Resource metadata (RFC 9728) oauth-protected-resource | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| auth.md exists auth-md-exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /auth.md found at site root |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint nlweb-ask | Fail | 0 of 1 | No NLWeb-conformant /ask endpoint found via GET or POST |
| CLI tool available cli-tool | Pass | 3 of 3 | CLI package found on npm: @webflow/webflow-cli |
| Multi-language SDK packages rest-sdk-packages | Partial | 2 of 3 | SDK packages found in npm, pypi |
| Rate limit response headers rate-limit-headers | Fail | 0 of 2 | No REST rate-limit headers found on probed endpoints |
| Idempotency-Key support idempotency-key-support | Fail | 0 of 3 | No REST Idempotency-Key support detected |
| JSON error responses json-error-responses | Pass | 4 of 4 | no detail published |
At the door
What the site answers when a request arrives with an agent's user agent, and what robots.txt says to agents.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not blocked by bot detection bot-detection | Pass | 2 of 2 | Site accessible to 4 agent user-agents (ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot). |
| Agent crawler reachability agent-crawler-reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 | Reachable to every agent we tested - ChatGPT-User: reachable, OAI-SearchBot: reachable, Claude-User: reachable, PerplexityBot: reachable |
| robots.txt AI crawler policy robots-ai-policy-quality | Pass | 2 of 2 | AI search crawlers: allowed in 18 of 18 checks (3 crawlers on 6 pages). AI training crawlers: allowed in 12 of 12 checks (2 crawlers on 6 pages), not scored. |
| robots.txt agent-user policy robots-agent-user-policy | Pass | 2 of 2 | No applicable crawl or usage restriction found for 3 user-triggered agents (chatgpt-user, claude-user, perplexity-user) on 1 public page: https://webflow.com/. Declared policy only; |
| Content behind auth docs-auth-gate | Pass | 2 of 2 | All 5 sampled pages are publicly readable (5 with substantive content) |
| Homepage not hidden from search noindex-directives | Pass | 1 of 1 | No noindex on the homepage: no robots, googlebot or bingbot meta tag and no X-Robots-Tag header hides it from search. |
| Redirect hygiene redirect-hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| Web Bot Auth directory web-bot-auth-directory | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory found |
What an agent can read
Whether the text is in the first response, what the site publishes for agents, and how it describes itself to them.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content without JavaScript content-no-js | Pass | 3 of 3 | Homepage: 15370 chars, semantic headings (2 H1 + 38 H2s + 4 H3s), 7.8% content ratio. 5 of 5 sampled inner pages have text without JavaScript. |
| Page token budget page-token-budget | Pass | 1 of 1 | All 6 measured pages fit an agent context budget (largest ~4K tokens) |
| Sitemap exists sitemap | Pass | 2 of 2 | Valid sitemap found at https://webflow.com/sitemap.xml with multiple sitemaps entries |
| Sitemap freshness (lastmod) sitemap-lastmod | Fail | 0 of 1 | None of the 500 sampled sitemap entries carries a lastmod date. Add <lastmod> (W3C datetime) so agents can prioritize fresh content. |
| llms.txt exists llms-txt-exists | Pass | 1 of 1 | Found the llms.txt at https://webflow.com/llms.txt. |
| llms.txt formatting llms-txt-formatting | Pass | 2 of 2 | The llms.txt is well-formatted: 111 lines with markdown links, 13,258 characters in total. |
| llms.txt links resolve llms-txt-links-resolve | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| Markdown agent docs markdown-negotiation | Pass | 1 of 1 | Returns markdown when requested via Accept header |
| Markdown URL fallback markdown-url-fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 | Homepage does not support the .md suffix. Probed https://webflow.com/index.md and it did not return markdown (expected text/markdown content-type or a heading-led non-HTML body). |
| Bot-UA markdown serving agent-ua-markdown | Fail | 0 of 1 | No probed bot User-Agent (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User) receives markdown when requesting HTML. Optional: detect AI-bot UAs server-side and serve them a markdown representation directly. |
| Agent mode view agent-mode-view | Fail | 0 of 2 | ?mode=agent returns same content as homepage (no dedicated agent view) |
| JSON-LD structured data json-ld | Pass | 4 of 4 | Rich JSON-LD identity: Organization with name, description, url, and sameAs/logo/address (1 block(s)) |
| Organization schema completeness org-schema-completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| JSON-LD entity linking (sameAs) json-ld-entity-linking | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| Schema type breadth schema-type-breadth | Partial | 1 of 2 | Some extended schema types found: Review, AggregateRating - add 1 more type that matches what the homepage shows, for full coverage |
| Metadata completeness metadata-completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 | All metadata signals present: canonical URL, lang="en", og:image, og:type |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use agent-instruction | Pass | 3 of 3 | no detail published |
Found and recommended
Whether an assistant can find the company by name, confirm what it is, and see it in the registries agents read.
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brand name discoverability brand-search-accuracy | Partial | 1 of 3 | webflow.com ranks #7 for "Webflow" (searched your brand name alone: no main product term from your homepage qualified) |
| Wikipedia / Wikidata entity presence wikipedia-presence | Pass | 4 of 4 | Wikipedia "Webflow" and Wikidata Q20160951 both verified - domain confirmed on both sources |
| Developer resource discoverability agentic-search-specific | Pass | 3 of 3 | no detail published |
| Listed in MCP registries mcp-registry-listed | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| NPM/PyPI SDK package npm-sdk-package | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| ChatGPT app listed chatgpt-app-listed | Pass | 2 of 2 | no detail published |
| Registry branding registry-branding | Fail | 0 of 2 | No registry branding (name, icon, description) found |
| Listed on skills.sh skills-sh-listed | Pass | 1 of 1 | no detail published |
| ARD discovery ard-catalog | Fail | 0 of 1 | No /.well-known/ard.json, no same-site rel="ard" link, and no legacy /.well-known/ai-catalog.json |
Payments
The agent payment protocols Ora probes for. A site that sells nothing has nothing here, and Ora scores the layer out of zero when none applies. None of the 6 payment checks applied to webflow.com.
The fixes worth most points
Ora attaches an estimate to each failing or partial check: how many points the site would gain by passing it. These are the 5 with the largest estimates for Webflow, with what Ora observed. The wording of each fix is Ora's; the 28 checks it runs on an MCP server are listed with their layer and tier.
- OpenAPI spec published: fail, 0 of 7, about 3.8 points to gain. Ora saw: No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found
- Scoped permissions: fail, 0 of 5, about 2.7 points to gain. Ora saw: No declared OAuth scopes, security schemes, or scoped-permission documentation found
- Brand name discoverability: partial, 1 of 3, about 2.5 points to gain. Ora saw: webflow.com ranks #7 for "Webflow" (searched your brand name alone: no main product term from your homepage qualified)
- REST typed error model: fail, 0 of 3, about 1.6 points to gain. Ora saw: No typed error model found
- REST versioning / deprecation policy: fail, 0 of 3, about 1.6 points to gain. Ora saw: No API versioning strategy found - add URL path versioning (/v1/, /v2/) or a versioned header parameter in your OpenAPI spec
Our read
Webflow passes the rows that need infrastructure and fails the rows that need a file. The MCP server at mcp.webflow.com/mcp answers and requires authentication, its server card sits at /.well-known/mcp/, OAuth metadata is on the MCP host, the REST documentation scores 7 of 7, @webflow/webflow-cli is on npm, SDKs are in npm and PyPI, an agent skills index lists 24 skills, webflow.com serves an llms.txt and returns markdown when asked for it with an Accept header. The home page is 15,370 characters at a 7.8 percent text ratio, though with two H1s and thirty-eight H2s. What is missing is an OpenAPI specification, declared scopes, a typed error model and a versioning strategy, about 10 points of specification work. The WebMCP check could read none of the two script bundles, so that row is unverified. The domain ranks seventh for its own name. The specification is the one file between this B and an A.
Test your own surfaces
The scan above is free and needs no account: enter a domain at ora.ai and read the same four layers for your own site. For an MCP server, Ora scans the server URL itself and runs 28 of its 132 public checks on it, which is why it is the check this directory recommends; the reasons, the limits and the alternatives are on their own page. The command below runs the same audit from a terminal and exits with 1 under the score you set, so it can gate a deploy.
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70All 360 checks, one company a day. Corrections to the corrections page.