Agent Actions - AI-readiness signals
All 18 signals in the Agent Actions category, with what each tests and why it matters for visibility in AI.
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BuyAction or OrderAction Markup So AI Agents Can Place Orders Directly
Tells autonomous shopping agents exactly which URL to call when a customer asks them to buy your product.
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ReserveAction Markup So AI Agents Can Book Tables, Rooms, and Appointments
Lets booking agents like ChatGPT and travel concierges know exactly where to send a reservation request.
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Machine-Readable Quote or RFQ Endpoint for Agent Procurement Workflows
Lets purchasing agents submit structured quote requests instead of guessing at your contact form.
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OpenActive Dataset and Open Booking API for Sport, Fitness, and Leisure Sites
Publishes your classes and sessions in the open standard agents and aggregators already use to book activities.
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Public OpenAPI Document So AI Agents Can Auto-Generate Tool Definitions
A single discoverable file that lets any AI agent learn your API and call it without bespoke integration.
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GraphQL Endpoint with Schema Introspection So Agents Can Learn Your Data Model
Lets AI agents query a single endpoint, discover the schema themselves, and build the right requests.
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OAuth and OpenID Connect Discovery Metadata for Agent Authorization Flows
Lets an AI agent acting on a user's behalf find your login endpoints automatically and request the right permissions.
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Permissive CORS Headers on Public Resources So Browser-Based AI Agents Can Reach Them
Without permissive CORS, in-browser AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude apps cannot fetch your public data at all.
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RateLimit Response Headers So AI Agents Can Pace Themselves and Not Get Banned
Tells well-behaved AI agents how much quota they have left so they slow down before they are blocked.
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Correct HTTP 429 Status with Retry-After Header When Throttling AI Agent Traffic
Returns the standard rate-limit response so agents back off correctly instead of giving up or looping.
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x402 Agent Micropayment Support So AI Agents Can Pay Per Call Without an Account
Lets autonomous agents pay tiny per-call fees for your API without ever creating a human account first.
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Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) Artifacts for Cryptographically-Signed Agent Purchases
Signals your readiness for Google AP2, the emerging industry standard for authorising agent-driven purchases.
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Discoverable Stripe Payment Link or Buy Button So AI Agents Can Recognise Your Checkout
Provides a machine-detectable purchase affordance that AI agents already know how to drive via the Stripe Agent Toolkit.
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Reachable Shopify Storefront API for Agent-Driven Browsing and Checkout
Exposes the Shopify GraphQL API that AI agents use to list products, build carts, and produce checkout URLs.
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Clickable mailto and tel Contact Links AI Agents Can Recognise and Act On
Exposes your email and phone as machine-readable URI links so agents can dial, email, or hand them off cleanly.
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Published vCard File So AI Agents Can Add Your Contact to Address Books Cleanly
Publishes a downloadable, IETF-standard contact card AI agents and humans can save in one click.
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Declared Webhook Subscriptions So Long-Running AI Agents Can Subscribe to Events
Lets autonomous agents subscribe to events they care about instead of polling your API and burning quota.
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Self-Describing Link Headers So Agents Can Discover Your Schema From Any Endpoint
Lets an AI agent that lands on any of your JSON endpoints find the full API description without guessing.