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title: "Agent Readiness and AI Visibility: What citelayer® Measures — citelayer®"
url: "https://citelayer.ai/docs/what-is-ai-visibility/"
date: 2026-02-25
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# Agent Readiness and AI Visibility: What citelayer® Measures

Agent readiness means that a site can return useful content, structured facts and permitted actions to an agent. citelayer® helps with those technical surfaces and shows local activity; it does not measure every AI answer.

What you can check
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- Does a public page return readable content and accurate structured data?
- Does the requested Markdown or discovery URL return the expected format?
- Have matching crawler requests or recognized human AI referrals reached WordPress?
- Can an authenticated tool call the abilities you deliberately enabled?

Three different kinds of evidence
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A successful endpoint check establishes access from that check. A crawler log establishes a matching request. An AI referral establishes a recognized arrival signal. None alone proves that a model read, remembered or cited a page.

Actual citations depend on the question, system, region, time and retrieval path. Collect those observations separately from technical readiness.

Where llms.txt fits
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llms.txt is an optional proposed index for AI systems. citelayer® generates and diagnoses it, but its presence is not evidence of a citation benefit. It does not contribute to the dashboard readiness score.

Start with a useful baseline
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1. Install the free plugin and run the site scanner.
2. Check one important page in HTML and Markdown.
3. Review schema and robots ownership alongside your SEO plugin.
4. Compare crawler and referral trends after enough data has accumulated.

See [how the scores differ](/docs/ai-readiness-scanner/) and [what bot analytics can show](/docs/bot-analytics/).

Next step
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Continue with [the quick start checklist](/docs/quick-start/), or [check the common questions](/docs/faq/). For a reproducible problem, send the plugin versions, affected URL, expected result and actual response through [Support](/support/). Do not include passwords, license keys or customer details.

Reviewed 6 October 2026 against citelayer® Free 1.13.5, WooCommerce add-on 1.2.19 and EDD add-on 1.2.1. Features depend on the active components and settings on your site.