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Is The New York Times ready for AI agents?
nytimes.com earns an agent-readiness grade of F (42/100). Its strongest area is Content for Agents (78/100), where agents can read you. The biggest gap is Discoverability (0/100), where the scan flagged that robots.txt blocks ai crawlers (13). you’re invisible to them — so agents can't reliably crawl you. Closing that gap is the fastest way to raise this site's score.
scan //nytimes.com
F42/100
Agent readiness verdict
Agents can read you, but they can't reliably crawl you.
AgentReady v1.0.0✗ Not yet baseline-conformant·MUST 0/1SHOULD 1/4MAY 0/4
Found by AI38
Will AI search cite you?AI VisibilityRecommend
42DiscoverabilityFind
0Content for AgentsEvaluate
78Usable by AI29
Can AI agents act on you?CapabilitiesUse tools
0Identity & AccessTrust
67CommerceTransact
N/A▸ Priority findings
Discoverability
Failrobots.txt with AI policyAR-DISC-01 · MUST
robots.txt blocks AI crawlers (13). You’re invisible to them.
Capabilities
Fail/agents entry pointbeyond-spec
No /agents entry point. Agents have nowhere obvious to start.
AI Visibility
FailCitable content blocksbeyond-spec
Sections are the wrong size for citation. AI answers lift concise, self-contained passages.
Ranked #11 of 24 News & media sites →Last scanned June 15, 2026
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