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It came up empty on 7 other checks too."},"observations":null,"dimensions":[{"key":"machine_discoverability","audience":"agent","score":79,"summary":"AI crawlers are explicitly allowed in robots.txt and no user agent rule blocks them. The sitemap lists 186 URLs including product pages, and the catalogue answers as data at /products.json with 12 products carrying brand and identifier.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"programmatic_onboarding","audience":"agent","score":10,"summary":"No API documentation is linked from the homepage or published at standard paths. The site publishes a UCP manifest for checkout, which is a bonus, but there is no developer surface for onboarding an agent into the shopping flow itself.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":90,"summary":"93 prices appear in the homepage HTML and 514 prices across the 3 product pages checked, all readable without JavaScript. Product structured data carries price and currency on every page read. Availability is published alongside price.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":2}},{"key":"agent_aware_instrumentation","audience":"agent","score":57,"summary":"A Universal Commerce Protocol manifest is published at version 2026-08-25, declaring 8 capabilities and 3 payment handlers, and a storefront MCP endpoint answers agent calls. The catalogue answers as data at /products.json.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"machine_fetchable_trust","audience":"agent","score":65,"summary":"The returns policy and shipping policy both read as text at /policies/refund-policy and /policies/shipping-policy, totalling 2812 and 2810 characters respectively.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"commercial_rails","audience":"agent","score":78,"summary":"Product markup carries price, currency, availability and identifier. The catalogue answers as data at /products.json with brand on each product. 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