Plaid scores 63/100 (Grade D), passing 10 of 22 checks (45%). There are 9 issues limiting AI agent readiness. Addressing llms.txt support and markdown availability would provide the most improvement.
# Agent Score Fix Report — Plaid URL: https://plaid.com/docs Score: 63/100 (Grade D) I need help improving the AI-readiness of the documentation at https://plaid.com/docs. Agent Score found 7 failing checks and 2 warnings. ## Failing Checks (7) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Size: llms.txt is 372,165 characters (exceeds 100,000 threshold; will be truncated by most agents) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Links Markdown: Same-origin links point to HTML and no markdown alternatives detected (217 external links excluded) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Directive: No llms.txt directive found in any of 10 sampled pages - [markdown-availability] Markdown Url Support: No sampled pages support .md URLs (0/10 tested) - [markdown-availability] Content Negotiation: Server ignores Accept: text/markdown header (0/10 sampled pages return markdown) - [page-size] Page Size Html: 4 of 10 sampled pages convert to over 100K chars (max 166K, 59% boilerplate) - [observability] Llms Txt Freshness: llms.txt covers 0/284 sitemap doc pages (0%); 284 missing; 232 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap) ## Warnings (2) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Valid: llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://plaid.com/docs/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found - [page-size] Content Start Position: 10 of 10 sampled pages have content starting at 10–50% (worst 50%) ## Fix Instructions For each issue above, please: 1. Analyze the documentation site at https://plaid.com/docs 2. Implement the specific fix 3. Verify the fix would cause the check to pass ### Common fixes: - **No llms.txt**: Create /llms.txt following https://llmstxt.org — list all doc pages in markdown format - **No .md URL support**: Configure your docs platform to serve pages at equivalent .md URLs (e.g. /docs/quickstart.md) - **No content negotiation**: Return markdown when request includes Accept: text/markdown header - **Large page size**: Reduce nav boilerplate, inline scripts, and repetitive markup - **No sitemap**: Generate /sitemap.xml listing all documentation URLs - **Auth walls**: Ensure docs pages return 200 without requiring login cookies or tokens - **No Last-Modified header**: Configure your server/CDN to include Last-Modified response headers - **Tab content hidden**: Ensure tabbed content is rendered in the HTML (not JS-only) so agents can read all variants ## Run afdocs Locally for More Detail To get deeper visibility into what's failing, run afdocs against your docs: npx afdocs https://plaid.com/docs --fixes --verbose - **--fixes**: Adds "Fix:" lines to the output for each warn/fail check with actionable remediation steps - **-v, --verbose**: Shows per-page details (specific URLs, character counts, error codes) for checks with issues — useful for per-URL visibility into what's failing
CHECK RESULTS
How your docs scored
markdown-url-supportNo sampled pages support .md URLs (0/10 tested)
content-negotiationServer ignores Accept: text/markdown header (0/10 sampled pages return markdown)
llms-txt-freshnessllms.txt covers 0/284 sitemap doc pages (0%); 284 missing; 232 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap)
cache-header-hygieneAll 12 endpoints have appropriate cache headers
markdown-content-paritySkipped: dependency check did not pass
page-size-html4 of 10 sampled pages convert to over 100K chars (max 166K, 59% boilerplate)
content-start-position10 of 10 sampled pages have content starting at 10–50% (worst 50%)
rendering-strategyAll 10 sampled pages contain server-rendered content
page-size-markdownSkipped: dependency check did not pass
llms-txt-sizellms.txt is 372,165 characters (exceeds 100,000 threshold; will be truncated by most agents)
llms-txt-links-markdownSame-origin links point to HTML and no markdown alternatives detected (217 external links excluded)
llms-txt-directiveNo llms.txt directive found in any of 10 sampled pages
llms-txt-validllms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://plaid.com/docs/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found
llms-txt-existsllms.txt found at 2 location(s)
llms-txt-links-resolveAll 10 same-origin sampled links resolve (1512 total links)
auth-gate-detectionAll 10 sampled pages are publicly accessible
auth-alternative-accessAll docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths needed
tabbed-content-serializationNo tabbed content detected across 10 sampled pages
section-header-qualityNo tabbed content found; header quality check not applicable
markdown-code-fence-validityAll 0 code fences properly closed across 2 pages
http-status-codesAll 10 sampled pages return proper error codes for bad URLs
redirect-behaviorNo redirects detected across 10 sampled pages
