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Web Bot Auth (HTTP Message Signatures, RFC 9421) lets an agent prove who it is per request; Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF and Vercel can verify it. Allow verified agents and keep challenging the rest.","code":"# Cloudflare: Security → Bots → Verified bots → allow category \"AI Agent\"\n# Or verify yourself: fetch the agent's key from\n#   https://<signature-agent>/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory\n# and check the Signature / Signature-Input headers (tag=\"web-bot-auth\")"},{"k":"front-door","pillar":"Protocols","pts":12,"title":"Give agents a front door","body":"A Universal Commerce Protocol manifest for shopping, or an MCP server card for everything else. An agent that can call an API never needs to hold a customer's password.","code":"GET /.well-known/ucp\n{ \"ucp\": { \"version\": \"2026-01-23\",\n  \"services\": { \"dev.ucp.shopping\": [{ \"transport\": \"rest\", \"endpoint\": \"https://www.lowes.com/api/ucp/v1\" }] },\n  \"capabilities\": { \"dev.ucp.shopping.checkout\": [ … ] } } }\n\n# or\nGET /.well-known/mcp.json\n{ \"name\": \"Lowe's\", \"endpoint\": \"https://www.lowes.com/mcp\", \"transport\": \"streamable-http\" }"},{"k":"llms","pillar":"Surface","pts":8,"title":"Publish llms.txt","body":"A short markdown map of what the site does, where the important pages are, and how to search or check out.","code":"/llms.txt\n# Lowe's\n> One paragraph on what this site is for.\n- [Products](/products): how to search and filter\n- [Checkout](/checkout): steps and constraints"},{"k":"landmarks","pillar":"Surface","pts":5,"title":"Use semantic landmarks","body":"main, nav, header, footer and labeled forms. Everything an accessibility audit already asks for.","code":"<header>…</header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Primary\">…</nav>\n<main>…</main>\n<form aria-label=\"Site search\"><label for=\"q\">Search</label><input id=\"q\" name=\"q\"></form>"},{"k":"signal","pillar":"Consent","pts":3,"title":"Say your stance with a Content-Signal","body":"Two lines in robots.txt end the guessing game. ai-input covers agents reading pages on a person's behalf.","code":"User-Agent: *\nContent-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no\nAllow: /"}]}