# HexClad Cookware: agent door 63, human door not measured
- Site: hexclad.com
- Scanned: 2026-09-08
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: ecommerce
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/hexclad-g2yajc
- Scanner version: 15
A browser-blocking storefront with agent checkout capability but no way for assistants to reach the shopping funnel.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | not measured |
| Agents | 63/100 (6/6 dimensions) |
| Composite | 63/100 |
Agent door only. The human door could not be measured on this scan. A Door Gap needs both doors, so this scan does not report one.
## What the machine actually did
The agent got through 9 of 17 requests, but could not read the site's own guide for language models. It came up empty on 7 other checks too.
- ok      reach the site at all
- ok      find out whether machines are welcome
- ok      ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names
- missing read the site's own guide for language models
- ok      find out what pages exist
- missing find a contact route for machines
- missing find a published agent interface
- missing find an agent plugin manifest
- missing find out whether verified agents are recognised
- ok      read the homepage as data rather than as a page
- missing find a machine readable API spec
- missing read the developer documentation
- ok      read the prices without running JavaScript
- ok      read the product catalogue as data
- ok      read a product page as data
- ok      read the returns and shipping terms
- missing walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product
## Top issues
1. **Product pages do not publish return or shipping terms in structured data, forcing agents to parse text.** (machine_fetchable_trust)
2. **A real browser cannot open the homepage, blocking all assistant shopping.** (machine_discoverability)
3. **No API documentation is published, so agents cannot learn how to query the catalogue or build a shopping flow.** (programmatic_onboarding)
The evidence and the recommended fix for each are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/hexclad-g2yajc
## Files generated from this scan
- **Let verified assistants through** at `notes`, 1 hour, developer. Verify: The next scan opens the homepage and the key pages in a real browser and under the search crawler names, and every one is served.
- **Product markup for Eco Modern Oven Mitt Set - Crimson** at `/products/eco-modern-oven-mitt-set-crimson`, 30 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads price, currency and availability in the Product markup of at least one product page, with the structured price matching the catalogue feed.
- **Product markup for Eco Modern Oven Mitt Set - Onyx** at `/products/eco-modern-oven-mitt-set-onyx`, 30 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads price, currency and availability in the Product markup of at least one product page, with the structured price matching the catalogue feed.
- **Product markup for Eco Modern Oven Mitt Set - Slate** at `/products/eco-modern-oven-mitt-set-slate`, 30 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads price, currency and availability in the Product markup of at least one product page, with the structured price matching the catalogue feed.
- **Product markup snippet for every product page** at `snippets/seconddoor-product-jsonld.liquid`, 30 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads price, currency and availability in the Product markup of every product page it samples, with the structured price matching the catalogue feed.
- **robots.txt rules for AI crawlers** at `/robots.txt`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan reads robots.txt and finds every search and agent crawler allowed, none of them kept off product or pricing paths.
- **Return policy and shipping structured data** at `product page`, 30 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads a MerchantReturnPolicy on the product pages, and OfferShippingDetails when the shipping node was published.
- **Link the policy pages from the product page** at `notes`, 30 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan finds the returns and shipping policy pages linked from a product page.
- **Variants missing a GTIN or a brand** at `catalog-identifiers.csv`, 5 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan reads the catalogue feed and finds a valid GTIN on at least nine in ten variants and a brand on at least nine in ten products.
- **Organization structured data** at `homepage`, 15 minutes, developer. Verify: The next scan reads Organization and WebSite nodes in the homepage JSON-LD and the structured data check passes.
- **security.txt** at `/.well-known/security.txt`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan fetches /.well-known/security.txt as text and the security.txt check passes.
- **Machine interfaces: where you stand** at `notes`, 10 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan finds the interface you published answering at its well-known path, and that check passes.
- **llms.txt** at `/llms.txt`, 15 minutes, no developer needed. Verify: The next scan fetches /llms.txt as text and the llms.txt check passes.
Each file is written from what this scan found on the site. The content is in the JSON once the evidence is opened: https://www.seconddoor.io/api/reports/hexclad-g2yajc
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 79/100. 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.
- **programmatic_onboarding** 10/100. 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.
- **pricing_legibility** 90/100. 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.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 57/100. 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.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 65/100. The returns policy and shipping policy both read as text at /policies/refund-policy and /policies/shipping-policy, totalling 2812 and 2810 characters respectively.
- **commercial_rails** 78/100. Product markup carries price, currency, availability and identifier. The catalogue answers as data at /products.json with brand on each product. Returns and shipping policies read as text.
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** not measured. Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
- **required_fields** not measured. Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
- **verification_walls** not measured. Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
- **error_recovery** not measured. Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.
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