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It came up empty on 7 other checks too. That is enough missing for a machine to give up before it reaches a purchase."},"observations":null,"dimensions":[{"key":"machine_discoverability","audience":"agent","score":100,"summary":"No AI crawler is blocked by robots.txt or user agent rules. A real browser is served the page normally. The sitemap lists 217 URLs including product pages. The homepage carries 4 schema.org types. Key pages are readable without JavaScript.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":4}},{"key":"programmatic_onboarding","audience":"agent","score":10,"summary":"No API documentation is linked from the homepage. No OpenAPI spec exists at any of the 6 standard paths. No MCP manifest is published. An agent cannot onboard programmatically and must scrape the site like a human.","evidence":{"locked":true,"count":3}},{"key":"pricing_legibility","audience":"agent","score":45,"summary":"26 prices appear in the homepage HTML and 89 prices across 3 product pages without JavaScript. 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