# Good for Bots report: shipboost\.io

Website: https://shipboost\.io
Report: https://goodforbots.com/r/shipboost.io
Scan: cmuseleon000901o0gx4q5ty5
Scanned at: 2026-10-03T13:04:29.255Z
Status: completed
Rubric: 0\.9\.0
Score: 63/100 (Fair)

Name: ShipBoost

## Access & usage policy

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request\. No indexing restriction was observed in the supported homepage directives\.

Sampled URL: https://shipboost\.io/

Crawler identities:

- goodforbotsbot: Good for Bots, Site diagnostics.
- \*: Unspecified, Default robots group.
- oai\-searchbot: OpenAI, ai\-search.
- claude\-searchbot: Anthropic, ai\-search.
- perplexitybot: Perplexity, ai\-search.
- mistralai\-index: Mistral, ai\-search.
- kimi\-searchbot: Moonshot AI, ai\-search.
- amzn\-searchbot: Amazon, ai\-search.
- meta\-webindexer: Meta, ai\-search.
- exasearchbot: Exa, ai\-search.
- aiwebindex: Lyrenth, ai\-search.
- duckassistbot: DuckDuckGo, ai\-search.
- shapbot: Parallel, ai\-search.
- yandexadditional: Yandex, ai\-search.
- yandexadditionalbot: Yandex, ai\-search.
- gptbot: OpenAI, ai\-training.
- claudebot: Anthropic, ai\-training.
- mistralai\-training: Mistral, ai\-training.
- kimibot: Moonshot AI, ai\-training.
- ai2bot: Unspecified, Unknown.
- applebot\-extended: Apple, ai\-training.
- webzio\-extended: Webz\.io, ai\-training.
- chatgpt\-user: OpenAI, user\-fetch.
- claude\-user: Anthropic, user\-fetch.
- perplexity\-user: Perplexity, user\-fetch.
- mistralai\-user: Mistral, user\-fetch.
- kimi\-user: Moonshot AI, user\-fetch.
- amzn\-user: Amazon, user\-fetch.
- diffbot\-user: Diffbot, user\-fetch.
- firecrawlagent: Firecrawl, extraction.
- webzio: Webz\.io, extraction.
- meta\-externalfetcher: Meta, user\-fetch, agent.
- google\-extended: Google, ai\-training, grounding.
- meta\-externalagent: Meta, ai\-training, product\-improvement.
- amazonbot: Amazon, ai\-training, product\-improvement.
- ccbot: Common Crawl, open\-dataset, ai\-training.
- googlebot: Google, search.
- bingbot: Microsoft, search.

### Declared crawling rules

No matching refusal for this URL was found for the listed identities\.

- GoodForBotsBot/1\.0 \(\+https://goodforbots\.com/bot\): The recorded robots admission decision allowed our crawler to proceed\.
  Source: Scan admission; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: GoodForBotsBot admission along the homepage request chain; state: allowed.

[Related check: robots\-txt](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#robots-txt)

- goodforbotsbot, \*, oai\-searchbot, claude\-searchbot, perplexitybot, mistralai\-index, kimi\-searchbot, amzn\-searchbot, meta\-webindexer, exasearchbot, aiwebindex, duckassistbot, shapbot, yandexadditional, yandexadditionalbot, gptbot, claudebot, mistralai\-training, kimibot, ai2bot, applebot\-extended, webzio\-extended, chatgpt\-user, claude\-user, perplexity\-user, mistralai\-user, kimi\-user, amzn\-user, diffbot\-user, firecrawlagent, webzio, meta\-externalfetcher, google\-extended, meta\-externalagent, amazonbot, ccbot, googlebot, bingbot: No matching refusal for this URL in the applicable robots group\. This is a declaration, not an access test\.
  Source: robots\.txt; URL: https://shipboost\.io/robots\.txt; scope: Acquisition of https://shipboost\.io/; state: allowed.

```text
User-agent: *
allow: /
```

[Related check: robots\-txt](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#robots-txt)

[Related check: ai\-crawler\-rules](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#ai-crawler-rules)

[Related check: ai\-crawler\-access](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#ai-crawler-access)

### Observed access

GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request\.

- GoodForBotsBot/1\.0 \(\+https://goodforbots\.com/bot\): Our request received HTTP 200\. A status alone does not identify a WAF\.
  Source: Direct request; URL: https://shipboost\.io; scope: Our recorded direct transport attempt; intermediate attempt URLs are not retained; state: observed.

```text
HTTP 200
```

[Related check: homepage\-availability](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#homepage-availability)

- GoodForBotsBot/1\.0 \(\+https://goodforbots\.com/bot\): GoodForBotsBot received HTTP 200 via a direct request\.
  Source: Final homepage response; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: homepage response; state: observed.

```text
HTTP 200
Transport: direct
```

[Related check: homepage\-availability](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#homepage-availability)

[Related check: waf\-challenge](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#waf-challenge)

### Indexing directives

No indexing restriction was observed in the supported homepage directives\.

- Scope unresolved: No indexing restriction was observed in the supported homepage directives\.
  Source: Homepage directives; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: homepage response; state: not-observed.

[Related check: indexing\-blocks](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#indexing-blocks)

### Search snippets

Scoped instructions were recorded; see their values and recipient support below\.

- googlebot: This declares a snippet instruction for the named recipients\. The value is not a claim about citation by every AI operator\.
  Source: Meta robots; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: This response only; state: observed.

```text
max-snippet: -1
```

[Related check: indexing\-blocks](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#indexing-blocks)

### Search usage

No applicable preference for this use was established\.

- goodforbotsbot, \*, oai\-searchbot, claude\-searchbot, perplexitybot, mistralai\-index, kimi\-searchbot, amzn\-searchbot, meta\-webindexer, exasearchbot, aiwebindex, duckassistbot, shapbot, yandexadditional, yandexadditionalbot, gptbot, claudebot, mistralai\-training, kimibot, ai2bot, applebot\-extended, webzio\-extended, chatgpt\-user, claude\-user, perplexity\-user, mistralai\-user, kimi\-user, amzn\-user, diffbot\-user, firecrawlagent, webzio, meta\-externalfetcher, google\-extended, meta\-externalagent, amazonbot, ccbot, googlebot, bingbot: No applicable AIPREF preference was established for this purpose\.
  Source: AIPREF Content\-Usage; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: Purpose: search; applicable robots group/path and this response's header; state: unstated.

[Related check: content\-signals](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#content-signals)

### AI input and use

No applicable preference for this use was established\.

- goodforbotsbot, \*, oai\-searchbot, claude\-searchbot, perplexitybot, mistralai\-index, kimi\-searchbot, amzn\-searchbot, meta\-webindexer, exasearchbot, aiwebindex, duckassistbot, shapbot, yandexadditional, yandexadditionalbot, gptbot, claudebot, mistralai\-training, kimibot, ai2bot, applebot\-extended, webzio\-extended, chatgpt\-user, claude\-user, perplexity\-user, mistralai\-user, kimi\-user, amzn\-user, diffbot\-user, firecrawlagent, webzio, meta\-externalfetcher, google\-extended, meta\-externalagent, amazonbot, ccbot, googlebot, bingbot: No applicable AIPREF preference was established for this purpose\.
  Source: AIPREF Content\-Usage; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: Purpose: ai\-use; applicable robots group/path and this response's header; state: unstated.

[Related check: content\-signals](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#content-signals)

### AI training

No applicable preference for this use was established\.

- goodforbotsbot, \*, oai\-searchbot, claude\-searchbot, perplexitybot, mistralai\-index, kimi\-searchbot, amzn\-searchbot, meta\-webindexer, exasearchbot, aiwebindex, duckassistbot, shapbot, yandexadditional, yandexadditionalbot, gptbot, claudebot, mistralai\-training, kimibot, ai2bot, applebot\-extended, webzio\-extended, chatgpt\-user, claude\-user, perplexity\-user, mistralai\-user, kimi\-user, amzn\-user, diffbot\-user, firecrawlagent, webzio, meta\-externalfetcher, google\-extended, meta\-externalagent, amazonbot, ccbot, googlebot, bingbot: No applicable AIPREF preference was established for this purpose\.
  Source: AIPREF Content\-Usage; URL: https://shipboost\.io/; scope: Purpose: train\-ai; applicable robots group/path and this response's header; state: unstated.

[Related check: content\-signals](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#content-signals)

- Crawler coverage includes the registered identities and up to 50 user\-agent entries from robots\.txt\. Source excerpts and detail groups are bounded; omissions are labelled\.
- Observed access describes GoodForBotsBot only\. Other crawler entries describe declared rules, not tests of those operators' access\.
- Coverage is the sampled homepage response and collected robots\.txt files\. No indexing or citation is guaranteed\. Usage preferences are declarations, not a legal determination of permission\.
- This explanation adds no points or penalties\. Any score effects belong to the linked checks\.
- AIPREF and Content Signals keep their own definitions\. AIPREF search can include processing used exclusively for search; training preferences are not a blanket ruling on every search process\.

Weekly launch boards and listings for bootstrapped SaaS founders

## About this site

ShipBoost is a platform designed for bootstrapped SaaS founders to turn product launches into ongoing distribution\. It offers weekly launch boards, founder\-ready public listings, and editorial articles that remain visible in search results after launch weeks conclude\. The site features current product launches categorized across areas such as productivity, artificial intelligence, analytics, and commerce, alongside resources for startup directories and software alternatives\.

## Through a bot's eyes

Written from the response GoodForBotsBot received in scan cmuseleon000901o0gx4q5ty5 (2026-10-03T13:04:29.255Z), before any JavaScript ran.

### What a bot can read

A language model reading this input learns about the weekly launch board rankings, the names and brief descriptions of currently listed products, and the core value proposition of turning single product launches into permanent search assets\. The homepage text details the launch model and available site surfaces like categories, blog spotlights, and startup directory resources\. The provided llms\.txt file outlines the core pages, SEO hubs, and complete AI index links, while the JSON\-LD blocks supply structured organization data and an item list of the featured launch products\. Pricing options and detailed submission costs are mentioned as existing pages but are not priced directly in the text\.

### What stays hidden

The exact pricing tiers for submissions and premium features are not detailed on the homepage text, and specific contact details beyond a support email address in the JSON\-LD data are absent from the main input\.

> ShipBoost is a launch distribution platform that helps bootstrapped SaaS founders secure ongoing visibility through weekly launch boards, public listings, and editorial articles\.

Simulated from the response GoodForBotsBot received, not a live answer from any AI assistant.

Category: Directories & Aggregators

Tags: Product Management, B2B, Startups

Platforms: nextjs

Hosting: cloudflare

## Site profile

Login: detected (login\-navigation).
API: not established.
Commerce: not established.

Not established means the scan found no proof, not that the site lacks it. The profile decides which conditional checks apply.

Robots verdict: allowed

## Scan statistics

```json
{
  "pagesScanned": 4,
  "requestCount": 22,
  "bytesFetched": 16922039,
  "durationMs": 20841
}
```

## Pages read

The homepage and up to three content pages chosen from the sitemaps and homepage links. Structured data, page structure, Markdown negotiation and typed links check every page read and take the median page; other checks read the homepage.

- Homepage: https://shipboost\.io
- https://shipboost\.io/blog/dash\-ai\-teammate\-slack\-teams: article; homepage link; read.
- https://shipboost\.io/pricing: pricing; homepage link, sitemap; read.
- https://shipboost\.io/blog: collection; homepage link, sitemap; read.

## Score breakdown

Readable base: 44.64; agent layer: 18.13; penalties: 0.
Final points are rounded and cannot fall below zero.

[How scoring works · current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0#scoring)

```json
{
  "block1Raw": 50,
  "block1Max": 56,
  "block2Raw": 14.5,
  "block2Max": 40,
  "coverage": 1,
  "cappedAt": null
}
```

## Detected capabilities

robots\-txt, sitemap, llms\-full\-txt, schema\-org, crawlable\-navigation, control\-names, control\-semantics, canonical\-url

## Checks

### llms\.txt is present and well formed

ID: llms-txt; version: 2; kind: achievement; status: warn.
Contribution: 5.625; maximum magnitude: 11.25.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=llms-txt&version=2#llms-txt)

/llms\.txt has a title but lists no links to follow\.

```json
{
  "links": 0,
  "title": "ShipBoost",
  "errors": [],
  "reason": "no-links",
  "sections": 4,
  "charLength": 1926,
  "hasSummary": false,
  "sectionsWithLinks": 0
}
```

### robots\.txt is present and valid

ID: robots-txt; version: 2; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 3.5714285714285716; maximum magnitude: 3.5714285714285716.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=robots-txt&version=2#robots-txt)

robots\.txt is valid, with 1 user\-agent group\.

```json
{
  "errors": [],
  "groups": 1,
  "sitemaps": 1,
  "directives": 8
}
```

### Sitemap is present and parses

ID: sitemap; version: 4; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 8.928571428571429; maximum magnitude: 8.928571428571429.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=sitemap&version=4#sitemap)

Sitemap declared in robots\.txt, listing at least 200 URLs\.

```json
{
  "urlCount": 200,
  "documents": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/sitemap.xml",
      "kind": "urlset",
      "urls": 200,
      "error": null,
      "valid": true,
      "children": 0,
      "compressed": false
    }
  ],
  "declaredInRobots": true
}
```

### llms\.txt is descriptive, not a bare link list

ID: llms-txt-quality; version: 2; kind: achievement; status: fail.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 7.5.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=llms-txt-quality&version=2#llms-txt-quality)

/llms\.txt lists no links, so there is nothing to describe\.

```json
{
  "links": 0,
  "reason": "no-links",
  "charLength": 1926,
  "hasDetails": true,
  "hasSummary": false,
  "describedLinks": 0,
  "descriptionRatio": 0,
  "unconventionalSeparators": 0
}
```

### Serves markdown at its own URL

ID: llms-full-txt; version: 3; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 12.5; maximum magnitude: 12.5.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=llms-full-txt&version=3#llms-full-txt)

/llms\-full\.txt serves the site's content as markdown \(at least 64 KB\)\.

```json
{
  "llmsFullTxt": {
    "status": 200,
    "usable": true,
    "rejected": null,
    "truncated": true,
    "byteLength": 65536
  },
  "markdownLinksInLlmsTxt": 0
}
```

### Serves markdown when asked for it

ID: markdown-negotiation; version: 3; kind: achievement; status: fail.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 10.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=markdown-negotiation&version=3#markdown-negotiation)

None of the 4 pages read pass\. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html\.

```json
{
  "vary": "rsc, next-router-state-tree, next-router-prefetch, next-router-segment-prefetch, Accept-Encoding",
  "pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "reason": "not-markdown",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.",
      "homepage": true
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "reason": "not-markdown",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "Asking the page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams for markdown still returns text/html.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "reason": "not-markdown",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "Asking the page at /pricing for markdown still returns text/html.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "reason": "not-markdown",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "Asking the page at /blog for markdown still returns text/html.",
      "homepage": false
    }
  ],
  "reason": "not-markdown",
  "charset": "utf-8",
  "variant": null,
  "bodyLength": 1056322,
  "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "variesOnAccept": false
}
```

### States a position on AI crawlers

ID: ai-crawler-rules; version: 5; kind: achievement; status: fail.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 5.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=ai-crawler-rules&version=5#ai-crawler-rules)

robots\.txt names no AI crawlers, so every operator has to guess\.

```json
{
  "allowed": [],
  "blocked": [],
  "purposes": [],
  "crawlersNamed": 0,
  "wildcardBlocksEverything": false
}
```

### Declares AI usage preferences

ID: content-signals; version: 3; kind: achievement; status: fail.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 2.5.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=content-signals&version=3#content-signals)

No usage declaration found in robots\.txt or the final successful homepage response header\.

```json
{
  "carriers": [],
  "contentUsage": [],
  "vocabularies": [],
  "contentSignal": [],
  "contentUsageHeader": null,
  "recognisedUsageCategories": [],
  "recognisedSignalCategories": []
}
```

### Describes itself to machines with schema\.org JSON\-LD

ID: schema-org; version: 4; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 8.928571428571429; maximum magnitude: 8.928571428571429.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=schema-org&version=4#schema-org)

All 4 pages read pass\. The homepage describes itself to machines as Organization, WebSite, ItemList in valid schema\.org JSON\-LD\.

```json
{
  "nodes": 68,
  "pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "reason": "ok",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The homepage describes itself to machines as Organization, WebSite, ItemList in valid schema.org JSON-LD.",
      "homepage": true
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "reason": "ok",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams describes itself to machines as BreadcrumbList, ListItem, Article in valid schema.org JSON-LD.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "reason": "ok",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /pricing describes itself to machines as Service, Organization in valid schema.org JSON-LD.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "reason": "ok",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /blog describes itself to machines as BreadcrumbList, ListItem, ItemList in valid schema.org JSON-LD.",
      "homepage": false
    }
  ],
  "types": [
    "Organization",
    "WebSite",
    "ItemList",
    "ListItem",
    "CollectionPage",
    "BreadcrumbList",
    "Article",
    "Person",
    "Service"
  ],
  "blocks": 10,
  "reason": "ok",
  "contexts": [
    "https://schema.org"
  ],
  "rdfaTypes": [],
  "truncated": false,
  "validBlocks": 10,
  "brokenBlocks": [],
  "unknownTypes": [],
  "pagesExamined": 4,
  "skippedBlocks": 0,
  "topLevelNodes": 10,
  "microdataTypes": [],
  "missingProperties": [],
  "unnamedTopLevelTypes": [
    "ItemList",
    "BreadcrumbList"
  ]
}
```

### Content is marked up so a reader can find it

ID: semantic-html; version: 4; kind: achievement; status: warn.
Contribution: 5.357142857142858; maximum magnitude: 10.714285714285715.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=semantic-html&version=4#semantic-html)

None of the 4 pages read pass fully; 4 partly\. The homepage is partly structured: 3 visible content roots, where the standard allows one\.

```json
{
  "gaps": [
    "3 visible content roots, where the standard allows one."
  ],
  "pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "reason": "partly-structured",
      "status": "warn",
      "summary": "The homepage is partly structured: 3 visible content roots, where the standard allows one.",
      "homepage": true
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "reason": "partly-structured",
      "status": "warn",
      "summary": "The page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams is partly structured: 2 visible content roots, where the standard allows one.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "reason": "partly-structured",
      "status": "warn",
      "summary": "The page at /pricing is partly structured: 2 visible content roots, where the standard allows one.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "reason": "partly-structured",
      "status": "warn",
      "summary": "The page at /blog is partly structured: 2 visible content roots, where the standard allows one.",
      "homepage": false
    }
  ],
  "roots": [
    {
      "words": 830,
      "source": "element",
      "hierarchicallyCorrect": true
    },
    {
      "words": 830,
      "source": "element",
      "hierarchicallyCorrect": false
    },
    {
      "words": 34,
      "source": "element",
      "hierarchicallyCorrect": false
    }
  ],
  "reason": "partly-structured",
  "h1Count": 1,
  "headings": [
    {
      "text": "Categories",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Explore",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Launch once.Keep getting discovered.",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 1
    },
    {
      "text": "This Week's launches",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 2
    },
    {
      "text": "Barcode Mint",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "TOP 1 WINNER",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "All Along",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 4
    },
    {
      "text": "Most launch sites give you a spike. Most directories give you a dead listing.",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 2
    },
    {
      "text": "Daily launch feeds",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Generic directories",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "ShipBoost",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "What founders get after launch",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 2
    },
    {
      "text": "Weekly board visibility",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Permanent public listing",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Long-tail discovery",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "The surfaces already doing the work",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 2
    },
    {
      "text": "Editorial blog",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Weekly board",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Categories",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Alternatives",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Directories resource",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Launch workflow",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "Want to launch here?",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 2
    },
    {
      "text": "Barcode Mint",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 3
    },
    {
      "text": "All Along",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 4
    },
    {
      "text": "Dash: An AI Teammate That Works Inside Slack and Microsoft Teams",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 4
    },
    {
      "text": "Lunar Log: A Dream Journal Built for the 3 a.m. Wake-Up",
      "empty": false,
      "level": 4
    }
  ],
  "bodyWords": 852,
  "landmarks": [
    {
      "role": "banner",
      "named": false,
      "source": "native",
      "element": "header"
    },
    {
      "role": "navigation",
      "named": false,
      "source": "native",
      "element": "nav"
    }
  ],
  "textRatio": 0.0055,
  "truncated": false,
  "articleCount": 20,
  "contentWords": 830,
  "headingCount": 27,
  "headingSkips": [],
  "requirements": {
    "landmarks": true,
    "contentRoot": false,
    "headingOutline": true
  },
  "landmarkRoles": [
    "banner",
    "navigation"
  ],
  "hiddenMainCount": 0,
  "textComposition": {
    "words": {
      "main": 811,
      "other": 0,
      "footer": 0,
      "header": 0,
      "navigation": 22
    },
    "shares": {
      "main": 0.9735894357743097,
      "other": 0,
      "footer": 0,
      "header": 0,
      "navigation": 0.026410564225690276
    },
    "version": 1,
    "truncated": false,
    "totalWords": 833,
    "analysisLimited": false,
    "mainRegionCount": 3,
    "wordsBeforeMain": null
  },
  "emptyHeadingCount": 0,
  "misnestedMainCount": 2
}
```

### Navigation links expose usable destinations

ID: crawlable-navigation; version: 2; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 8.928571428571429; maximum magnitude: 8.928571428571429.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=crawlable-navigation&version=2#crawlable-navigation)

24 of 24 assessed homepage navigation links expose usable destinations\.

```json
{
  "good": 24,
  "page": "homepage",
  "total": 24,
  "reason": "observed-gaps",
  "limited": false,
  "examples": [],
  "truncated": false,
  "skippedContactLinks": 0,
  "brokenLabelReferences": 0
}
```

### Links and buttons have accessible names

ID: control-names; version: 1; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 4.464285714285714; maximum magnitude: 4.464285714285714.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=control-names&version=1#control-names)

408 of 408 assessed homepage links and buttons have a nonempty accessible name\.

```json
{
  "good": 408,
  "page": "homepage",
  "total": 408,
  "reason": "observed-gaps",
  "limited": false,
  "examples": [],
  "truncated": false,
  "skippedContactLinks": 0,
  "brokenLabelReferences": 0
}
```

### Form fields have names and recognizable semantics

ID: form-semantics; version: 1; kind: achievement; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=form-semantics&version=1#form-semantics)

No applicable form fields were observed in the homepage HTML\.

```json
{
  "good": 0,
  "page": "homepage",
  "total": 0,
  "reason": "not-observed",
  "limited": false,
  "examples": [],
  "truncated": false,
  "nativeForms": 0,
  "submitControls": 0,
  "inputTypeFallbacks": 0,
  "formsWithoutSubmitControl": 0
}
```

### Controls expose roles, states and relationships

ID: control-semantics; version: 1; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 2.678571428571429; maximum magnitude: 2.678571428571429.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=control-semantics&version=1#control-semantics)

408 of 408 assessed homepage controls and role declarations meet the static role, state and relationship checks\.

```json
{
  "good": 408,
  "page": "homepage",
  "total": 408,
  "reason": "observed-gaps",
  "limited": false,
  "examples": [],
  "truncated": false
}
```

### Advertises machine\-readable resources with typed links

ID: link-headers; version: 4; kind: achievement; status: fail.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 1.25.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=link-headers&version=4#link-headers)

None of the 4 pages read pass\. The homepage's links are all ordinary page furniture; none point an agent anywhere\.

```json
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "reason": "ambient-only",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "The homepage's links are all ordinary page furniture; none point an agent anywhere.",
      "homepage": true
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "reason": "ambient-only",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "The page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams's links are all ordinary page furniture; none point an agent anywhere.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "reason": "ambient-only",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "The page at /pricing's links are all ordinary page furniture; none point an agent anywhere.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "reason": "ambient-only",
      "status": "fail",
      "summary": "The page at /blog's links are all ordinary page furniture; none point an agent anywhere.",
      "homepage": false
    }
  ],
  "reason": "ambient-only",
  "sources": [],
  "totalLinks": 13,
  "ambientOnly": [
    "preload",
    "stylesheet",
    "canonical",
    "shortcut",
    "icon",
    "apple-touch-icon"
  ],
  "markdownAlternates": [],
  "meaningfulRelations": []
}
```

### Each page declares one usable canonical URL

ID: canonical-url; version: 1; kind: achievement; status: pass.
Contribution: 1.7857142857142858; maximum magnitude: 1.7857142857142858.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=canonical-url&version=1#canonical-url)

All 4 pages read pass\. The homepage declares itself as its canonical URL\.

```json
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "reason": "declared",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The homepage declares itself as its canonical URL.",
      "homepage": true
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "reason": "declared",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams declares itself as its canonical URL.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "reason": "declared",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /pricing declares itself as its canonical URL.",
      "homepage": false
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "reason": "declared",
      "status": "pass",
      "summary": "The page at /blog declares itself as its canonical URL.",
      "homepage": false
    }
  ],
  "reason": "declared",
  "target": "https://shipboost.io/",
  "readings": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "target": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "relative": false,
      "crossHost": false,
      "truncated": false,
      "duplicates": 0,
      "declarations": [
        {
          "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
          "href": "https://shipboost.io",
          "source": "head"
        }
      ],
      "selfReference": true,
      "invalidDeclarations": 0
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "target": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "relative": false,
      "crossHost": false,
      "truncated": false,
      "duplicates": 0,
      "declarations": [
        {
          "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
          "href": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
          "source": "head"
        }
      ],
      "selfReference": true,
      "invalidDeclarations": 0
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "target": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "relative": false,
      "crossHost": false,
      "truncated": false,
      "duplicates": 0,
      "declarations": [
        {
          "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
          "href": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
          "source": "head"
        }
      ],
      "selfReference": true,
      "invalidDeclarations": 0
    },
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "target": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "relative": false,
      "crossHost": false,
      "truncated": false,
      "duplicates": 0,
      "declarations": [
        {
          "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
          "href": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
          "source": "head"
        }
      ],
      "selfReference": true,
      "invalidDeclarations": 0
    }
  ],
  "relative": false,
  "crossHost": false,
  "truncated": false,
  "duplicates": 0,
  "declarations": [
    {
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "href": "https://shipboost.io",
      "source": "head"
    }
  ],
  "selfReference": true,
  "invalidDeclarations": 0
}
```

### Section links reach an element on the page

ID: section-links; version: 1; kind: achievement; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=section-links&version=1#section-links)

No section links were found on the pages read\.

```json
{
  "reason": "not-observed"
}
```

### Serves our crawler without a challenge

ID: waf-challenge; version: 2; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 15.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=waf-challenge&version=2#waf-challenge)

Our crawler reaches the page without being challenged\.

```json
{
  "status": 200
}
```

### The homepage does not block indexing or snippets

ID: indexing-blocks; version: 5; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 20.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=indexing-blocks&version=5#indexing-blocks)

Nothing on the homepage tells a crawler to skip it or to withhold its snippet\.

```json
{
  "blocking": [],
  "finalUrl": "https://shipboost.io/",
  "redirects": 0,
  "directives": [
    {
      "name": "index",
      "value": null,
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "*"
    },
    {
      "name": "follow",
      "value": null,
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "*"
    },
    {
      "name": "index",
      "value": null,
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "googlebot"
    },
    {
      "name": "follow",
      "value": null,
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "googlebot"
    },
    {
      "name": "max-video-preview",
      "value": "-1",
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "googlebot"
    },
    {
      "name": "max-image-preview",
      "value": "large",
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "googlebot"
    },
    {
      "name": "max-snippet",
      "value": "-1",
      "inHead": true,
      "source": "html",
      "userAgent": "googlebot"
    }
  ],
  "ignoredScopes": [],
  "trainingOptOut": [],
  "snippetBlocking": []
}
```

### Serves its content without JavaScript

ID: javascript-required; version: 4; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 25.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=javascript-required&version=4#javascript-required)

The captured homepage HTML contains 830 content words; completeness is not assessed\.

```json
{
  "reason": "text-observed",
  "bodyWords": 852,
  "truncated": false,
  "scriptCount": 178,
  "contentWords": 830,
  "markupLength": 1055758,
  "passWordThreshold": 120,
  "hasNoscriptFallback": false,
  "nontextElementCount": 767
}
```

### Allows search and user\-fetch crawlers

ID: ai-crawler-access; version: 5; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 25.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=ai-crawler-access&version=5#ai-crawler-access)

robots\.txt allows every known search and user\-fetch crawler to reach the homepage\.

```json
{
  "path": "/",
  "capped": false,
  "blocked": [],
  "blockedCount": 0,
  "penaltyPoints": 0
}
```

### Serves the homepage over HTTPS with HTTP 200

ID: homepage-availability; version: 2; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 10.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=homepage-availability&version=2#homepage-availability)

The homepage is served over HTTPS and returns HTTP 200\.

```json
{
  "error": null,
  "secure": true,
  "status": 200,
  "finalUrl": "https://shipboost.io/",
  "requestedUrl": "https://shipboost.io"
}
```

### Provides a title and meta description

ID: page-metadata; version: 2; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 3.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=page-metadata&version=2#page-metadata)

The homepage provides both a non\-empty title and meta description\.

```json
{
  "title": "ShipBoost | Launch once. Keep getting discovered.",
  "titleCount": 1,
  "description": "ShipBoost helps bootstrapped SaaS founders turn a launch into long-tail distribution with weekly launch boards, clean public listings, and hand-written editorial articles that keep working in search.",
  "descriptionCount": 1
}
```

### Reaches the homepage within two redirects

ID: redirect-chain; version: 2; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 3.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=redirect-chain&version=2#redirect-chain)

The homepage is reached in 0 redirects\.

```json
{
  "finalUrl": "https://shipboost.io/",
  "redirects": 0,
  "threshold": 2,
  "requestedUrl": "https://shipboost.io"
}
```

### Returns the homepage within three seconds

ID: response-time; version: 2; kind: penalty; status: pass.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 3.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=response-time&version=2#response-time)

The homepage reached a plain crawler in 114 ms\.

```json
{
  "durationMs": 114,
  "thresholdMs": 3000,
  "directAttempts": 1
}
```

### Publishes an API catalog

ID: api-catalog; version: 4; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=api-catalog&version=4#api-catalog)

No API catalog published\.

```json
{
  "wellKnown": {
    "status": 404,
    "problem": "absent",
    "profile": null,
    "contentType": null
  },
  "advertisedVia": []
}
```

### Publishes an auth\.md for agents

ID: auth-md; version: 2; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=auth-md&version=2#auth-md)

No /auth\.md published\.

```json
{
  "error": null,
  "reason": "absent",
  "status": 404,
  "contentType": "text/html"
}
```

### Lists an MCP server card in its AI Catalog

ID: mcp-server-card; version: 3; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=mcp-server-card&version=3#mcp-server-card)

No AI Catalog published, so no MCP server card can be discovered\.

```json
{
  "reason": "absent",
  "catalog": {
    "status": 404,
    "entries": 0,
    "problem": "absent",
    "contentType": null,
    "specVersion": null,
    "malformedEntries": 0
  }
}
```

### Publishes an A2A Agent Card

ID: a2a-agent-card; version: 3; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=a2a-agent-card&version=3#a2a-agent-card)

No A2A Agent Card at /\.well\-known/agent\-card\.json, and none listed in an AI Catalog\.

```json
{
  "cards": [
    {
      "via": "well-known",
      "name": null,
      "error": null,
      "notes": [],
      "shape": null,
      "skills": 0,
      "source": "https://shipboost.io/.well-known/agent-card.json",
      "status": 404,
      "usable": false,
      "problem": "absent",
      "version": null,
      "bindings": [],
      "identifier": null,
      "interfaces": []
    }
  ],
  "reason": "absent",
  "catalog": {
    "status": 404,
    "entries": 0,
    "problem": "absent"
  },
  "wellKnown": {
    "status": 404,
    "problem": "absent",
    "contentType": "text/html; charset=utf-8"
  }
}
```

### Publishes an Agent Skills index

ID: agent-skills-index; version: 3; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=agent-skills-index&version=3#agent-skills-index)

No usable Agent Skills index was found at either well\-known path or in the AI Catalog\.

```json
{
  "reason": "absent",
  "catalog": {
    "status": 404,
    "problem": "absent",
    "individualSkills": 0
  },
  "indexes": [
    {
      "via": "well-known",
      "error": null,
      "notes": [],
      "total": 0,
      "format": null,
      "issues": [],
      "schema": null,
      "source": "https://shipboost.io/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json",
      "status": 404,
      "usable": 0,
      "entries": [],
      "problem": "absent",
      "rejected": 0,
      "identifier": null
    },
    {
      "via": "well-known",
      "error": null,
      "notes": [],
      "total": 0,
      "format": null,
      "issues": [],
      "schema": null,
      "source": "https://shipboost.io/.well-known/skills/index.json",
      "status": 404,
      "usable": 0,
      "entries": [],
      "problem": "absent",
      "rejected": 0,
      "identifier": null
    }
  ],
  "artifactVerification": "not-performed"
}
```

### Declares WebMCP tools for browser agents

ID: webmcp; version: 1; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=webmcp&version=1#webmcp)

No WebMCP declarations were found in the collected HTML or inline scripts\. External scripts were not inspected\.

```json
{
  "pages": [
    {
      "key": "homepage",
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/",
      "secure": true,
      "usable": 0,
      "truncated": false,
      "references": 0,
      "parseErrors": 0,
      "declarations": 0
    },
    {
      "key": "page:https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams",
      "secure": true,
      "usable": 0,
      "truncated": false,
      "references": 0,
      "parseErrors": 0,
      "declarations": 0
    },
    {
      "key": "page:https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/pricing",
      "secure": true,
      "usable": 0,
      "truncated": false,
      "references": 0,
      "parseErrors": 0,
      "declarations": 0
    },
    {
      "key": "page:https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "url": "https://shipboost.io/blog",
      "secure": true,
      "usable": 0,
      "truncated": false,
      "references": 0,
      "parseErrors": 0,
      "declarations": 0
    }
  ],
  "reason": "absent",
  "detection": "static",
  "pageCount": 4,
  "references": [],
  "parseErrors": 0,
  "usableCount": 0,
  "declarations": [],
  "referenceCount": 0,
  "declarationCount": 0,
  "runtimeVerification": "not-performed"
}
```

### Publishes a Web Bot Auth key directory

ID: web-bot-auth; version: 2; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=web-bot-auth&version=2#web-bot-auth)

No Web Bot Auth key directory at /\.well\-known/http\-message\-signatures\-directory\.

```json
{
  "keys": {
    "total": 0,
    "sample": [],
    "usable": 0,
    "testKeys": 0,
    "evaluated": 0,
    "privateMaterial": 0
  },
  "notes": [
    "media-type",
    "unsigned"
  ],
  "shape": null,
  "reason": "absent",
  "signature": {
    "total": 0,
    "status": "absent",
    "ignored": 0,
    "coverage": null,
    "malformed": false,
    "signatures": []
  },
  "wellKnown": {
    "status": 404,
    "problem": "absent",
    "finalUrl": "https://shipboost.io/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory",
    "redirects": 0,
    "contentType": null
  },
  "extraMembers": [],
  "signatureAgent": "https://shipboost.io"
}
```

### Accepts agent payments with x402 or MPP

ID: x402-mpp; version: 2; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=x402-mpp&version=2#x402-mpp)

No HTTP 402 payment challenge on the homepage or robots\.txt, and no manifest at /\.well\-known/x402\.

```json
{
  "reason": "absent",
  "manifest": {
    "kind": null,
    "notes": [],
    "shape": null,
    "status": 404,
    "problem": "absent",
    "finalUrl": "https://shipboost.io/.well-known/x402",
    "resources": {
      "total": 0,
      "sample": [],
      "skipped": {},
      "eligible": 0,
      "examined": 0
    },
    "contentType": null
  },
  "protocols": [],
  "responses": [],
  "verification": null,
  "paymentVerification": "not-performed"
}
```

### Publishes ACP discovery metadata

ID: acp; version: 1; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=acp&version=1#acp)

No ACP discovery declaration established at /\.well\-known/acp\.json\.

```json
{
  "api": false,
  "key": "well-known-acp",
  "issues": [],
  "marked": false,
  "reason": "absent",
  "status": 404,
  "usable": false,
  "problem": "absent",
  "version": null,
  "commerce": false,
  "services": [],
  "transports": [],
  "capabilities": [],
  "transactionVerification": "not-performed"
}
```

### Publishes UCP discovery metadata

ID: ucp; version: 1; kind: capability; status: na.
Contribution: 0; maximum magnitude: 0.

[Current methodology](https://goodforbots.com/standards?rubric=0.9.0&check=ucp&version=1#ucp)

No UCP discovery declaration established at /\.well\-known/ucp\.

```json
{
  "api": false,
  "key": "well-known-ucp",
  "issues": [],
  "marked": false,
  "reason": "absent",
  "status": 404,
  "usable": false,
  "problem": "absent",
  "version": null,
  "commerce": false,
  "services": [],
  "transports": [],
  "capabilities": [],
  "transactionVerification": "not-performed"
}
```

## Observations

### robots

```json
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## Fixes

Showing 3 of 17 fixes.

### Serve Markdown when asked for it

Recoverable contribution: 10 points.

Score with this fix and the ones above it: 73/100.

None of the 4 pages read pass\. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html\.

```text
My website shipboost.io scored 63/100 on Good for Bots (Fair). Good for Bots measures one thing: whether a language model can read a site and cite it.

I need you to: serve markdown through content negotiation on all public HTML routes.

The check it fails is "Serves markdown when asked for it", worth 10 points. What the scanner saw: None of the 4 pages read pass. Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.

The scan checked a sample of 4 pages. It does not establish which other pages have the same issues. Use the findings below to locate the responsible templates, components or configuration, and apply the fix wherever the same issue occurs. Pages in the sample with findings:
- https://shipboost.io/: Asking the homepage for markdown still returns text/html.
- https://shipboost.io/blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams: Asking the page at /blog/dash-ai-teammate-slack-teams for markdown still returns text/html.
- https://shipboost.io/pricing: Asking the page at /pricing for markdown still returns text/html.
- https://shipboost.io/blog: Asking the page at /blog for markdown still returns text/html.

Implement content negotiation across all public HTML routes, including page types
outside the scan's sample. Put it in the shared response handling or the handlers
for each page type, so new pages receive it too. Agents need the content of any
page they follow, including pages the report did not name.

When a request arrives with `text/markdown` in its `Accept` header, the same URL that
serves HTML to a browser should return a markdown rendering of that page's content.
Requests without that header must keep getting the HTML exactly as they do now.

The response must:

- set `Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8`;
- include `Accept` in the `Vary` header, so shared caches never serve the markdown to a
  browser or the HTML to an agent (RFC 9110 says a server SHOULD send `Vary` whenever
  the representation depends on a request header);
- contain real markdown, not HTML with a different header on it;
- drop `ETag` and `Last-Modified` for the converted response, since a conditional request
  cannot be honoured against a body generated on the fly.

Work out how to do this in whatever stack this project uses. If the site is behind
Cloudflare on a paid plan, the "Markdown for Agents" zone setting does all of the above
and is the least invasive option. Otherwise implement it in the framework: middleware
inspecting the `Accept` header, a route handler that returns the markdown source, or
whatever fits the architecture here.

Strip navigation, headers, footers and cookie banners from the markdown. The point is the
content, without the page furniture around it.

Verify HTML and Markdown responses for each public page type, including URLs
outside the reported sample. Check that each Markdown response contains that
page's content and that ordinary browser requests still receive HTML.

The whole report, as markdown, is at https://goodforbots.com/r/shipboost.io.md?scan=cmuseleon000901o0gx4q5ty5. Read it first: this prompt covers one finding, and the report has everything the scan saw.

When you are done, summarise what you changed and how to check it against a running instance. Do not try to run the Good for Bots scan yourself: it only sees what is already deployed, it is rate-limited, and re-running it is the site owner's call once the change ships.
```

### Add descriptions to llms\.txt

Recoverable contribution: 7.5 points.

Score with this fix and the ones above it: 80/100.

/llms\.txt lists no links, so there is nothing to describe\.

````text
My website shipboost.io scored 63/100 on Good for Bots (Fair). Good for Bots measures one thing: whether a language model can read a site and cite it.

I need you to: describe the links in llms.txt and open the file with a summary.

The check it fails is "llms.txt is descriptive, not a bare link list", worth 7.5 points. What the scanner saw: /llms.txt lists no links, so there is nothing to describe.

A file made of `- [Docs](/docs)` and thirty more like it tells a model that this site has
pages, which it already knew. What a model needs from an index is the thing that lets it
choose: what is behind each address, and whether fetching it is worth the tokens. That is
what a note after the link does, and it is the difference between an index and a table of
contents nobody asked for.

There is nothing normative to cite here, and saying so is the honest opening move. The
llms.txt specification makes the note after a link optional and says nothing about how
many links should carry one. This is our judgement about what makes such a file
worth retrieving, and the report says as much.

The file must:

- open with a `>` blockquote summary directly under the H1, before the first `##` heading
  and before the first link line. A summary written lower down is not read as the
  summary, by this scan or by anything skimming the file top-down;
- give each link a `:` followed by a note, on the same line as the link;
- describe what is behind the link rather than restating its name. `Pricing: pricing`
  costs a line and conveys nothing.

Before and after, on the same file:

```markdown
# Acme

## Docs

- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md)
- [Concepts](/docs/concepts.md)
- [Webhooks](/docs/webhooks.md)
```

```markdown
# Acme

> Acme is a hosted billing API for subscription businesses. Everything below is written
> against the v2 API; v1 reaches end of life in March.

## Docs

- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md): create an account and take a first payment in about
  ten minutes, with a runnable curl example
- [Concepts](/docs/concepts.md): customers, subscriptions, invoices and proration, and
  how the four objects relate
- [Webhooks](/docs/webhooks.md): the event list, signature verification, and the retry
  schedule
```

The second file is not longer for the sake of it. A model reading it can answer "where do
I find the retry schedule" without fetching anything, and then fetch exactly one page.

One caution. The summary has to sit above everything else. A blockquote placed after the
first heading, or after the first link, reads as a note about that section rather than
about the project, and is not counted as the file's summary.

Two things about how this is measured, both of which are limits rather than rules. The
thresholds are ours and are judgement, not measurement (a quarter of the links carrying
a note starts earning credit, three in five passes), so treat them as a floor and write a
note wherever a reader would want one. And only the presence of a note is detected, never
its quality: `: docs` counts the same as a sentence that says something. Writing `: docs`
on every link would clear the check and defeat the purpose of doing it, since the file is
for a model and not for us.

One last thing about order. A site with no `/llms.txt` at all fails this check too, and
that is deliberate: marking it inapplicable would drop it out of the denominator and
quietly reward a site for having done nothing. If both this and the llms.txt check are
outstanding, do that one first. There is nothing to describe until the file exists.

The whole report, as markdown, is at https://goodforbots.com/r/shipboost.io.md?scan=cmuseleon000901o0gx4q5ty5. Read it first: this prompt covers one finding, and the report has everything the scan saw.

When you are done, summarise what you changed and how to check it against a running instance. Do not try to run the Good for Bots scan yourself: it only sees what is already deployed, it is rate-limited, and re-running it is the site owner's call once the change ships.
````

### Publish a well\-formed llms\.txt

Recoverable contribution: 5.63 points.

Score with this fix and the ones above it: 86/100.

/llms\.txt has a title but lists no links to follow\.

````text
My website shipboost.io scored 63/100 on Good for Bots (Fair). Good for Bots measures one thing: whether a language model can read a site and cite it.

I need you to: publish an llms.txt at the site root.

The check it only partly passes is "llms.txt is present and well formed", with 5.63 points of it still on the table. What the scanner saw: /llms.txt has a title but lists no links to follow.

The file has a title and prose but no link lines, so there is nothing for a model to
fetch next. An entry is a bullet: `- [Name](/path)`, optionally followed by `:` and a
note. A bare URL on its own line, or a link inside a paragraph, is not an entry and is
not counted as one.

A model that arrives at a site with no `llms.txt` has to work out what is here from
whatever the navigation happens to expose. A sitemap does not help it. That file was
written for a search engine and lists addresses without saying what any of them are
for. `llms.txt` is the one file written for the other kind of reader: a short, curated
index that says what this project is and which pages are worth fetching.

The format is defined at llmstxt.org, currently at version 2. It is a convention with a
written specification and real adoption, not a standards-body document: there is no RFC
behind it and no working group. Worth knowing before treating any corner of it as
settled.

The file must:

- be served at `/llms.txt`, at the site root, answering 200 as text rather than HTML;
- open with an H1 naming the project (a `#`, a space, then the name). The specification
  makes this the one required element, so a file without it is not llms.txt at all;
- carry a blockquote directly under that title saying what the project is, in the terms
  someone who has never seen it would need;
- list the pages worth fetching as bullet links, `- [Name](url)`, each followed by `:`
  and a note saying what is behind it;
- group those links under `##` headings that mean something (`Docs`, `API`, `Optional`)
  rather than one undifferentiated pile.

By convention the section named `Optional` holds secondary information: links an agent
can skip when it needs a shorter context. It is the only place in the format where a
site can say "this matters less", so use it rather than leaving everything equally
weighted.

A minimal, valid example:

```markdown
# Acme

> Acme is a hosted billing API for subscription businesses. These pages cover the
> concepts, the REST endpoints, and the migration path from the v1 API.

Start with the quickstart. The API reference is generated from the OpenAPI document
linked below, so it is always current.

## Docs

- [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart.md): create an account and take a first payment
- [Concepts](/docs/concepts.md): customers, subscriptions and invoices, and how they relate
- [Migrating from v1](/docs/migrate-v1.md): what changed, and the cut-off date

## API

- [REST reference](/api/reference.md): every endpoint, with request and response shapes
- [OpenAPI document](/api/openapi.json): the machine-readable schema

## Optional

- [Changelog](/changelog.md): release notes, most recent first
```

Two things get this wrong more often than anything else.

**A catch-all route answering for the file.** A framework that serves its application
shell for every unknown path returns 200 and a page of HTML at `/llms.txt`, which is
worse than a plain 404 because nothing signals that the file is absent. Verify from
outside the application: `curl -s https://shipboost.io/llms.txt | head -5` must print markdown,
not `<!doctype html>`. On most stacks the answer is to put the file in the directory
that is served verbatim (`public/`, `static/`, `www/`) rather than in the router.

**Generating it from the sitemap.** A dump of every URL the site has is a sitemap with
different punctuation. This file is a curated index: a few dozen entries a person chose,
each carrying a note. A generated wall of bare links satisfies the format and helps
nobody, and it fails the companion check that asks whether the index describes anything.

Two limits of this scan are worth knowing, because neither is a reading of the
specification. The specification allows the file at any subpath (`/docs/llms.txt`
covers the URLs beneath `/docs/`), but this scan requests the site root and nothing
else, so a file that exists only under a subpath is reported as absent. And the URLs
inside the file are never fetched, so an index pointing at pages that have moved still
reads as well formed here.

The whole report, as markdown, is at https://goodforbots.com/r/shipboost.io.md?scan=cmuseleon000901o0gx4q5ty5. Read it first: this prompt covers one finding, and the report has everything the scan saw.

When you are done, summarise what you changed and how to check it against a running instance. Do not try to run the Good for Bots scan yourself: it only sees what is already deployed, it is rate-limited, and re-running it is the site owner's call once the change ships.
````

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