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Deep scanUnclassified/Scanned 3 Sept 2026, 21:37 UTC/2 walks, 14 requests, 2 moments recorded/Partial scan

patagonia.com

Automated visitors, including the AI agents that now do shopping, hit a 404 or a near-blank page at the front door, so nothing downstream can be evaluated.

Human door94
Agent door9
Door Gap85

Composite

52

Two issues, in priority order

Each one is drawn from evidence recorded during the walks.

3 pieces of evidence and the recommended fix are recorded for this issue.

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What a visitor actually meets

2 moments, 2 blocking

We walked the funnel in a real browser and captured every step. Nothing was submitted and no account was created.

  1. 01

    Landing page

    https://www.patagonia.com/ returned HTTP 404 with body text 'Not found'. No headings, links, buttons or visible text were rendered. This is a rendering or routing failure on the site's end for an automated visitor, not a judgment on design.

    blocked·www.patagonia.com

    Patagonia homepage
    Patagonia homepage
  2. 02

    Attempted alternate entry points

    Tried /home/ and /shop/new-arrivals as likely landing or category pages. Both returned HTTP 404 with no rendered content, same as the root domain. The failure is consistent across paths, suggesting the site is not serving content to this automated visitor at all.

    blocked·/shop/new-arrivals

We sent a buying agent

14 requests, in order

The agent got through 4 of 14 requests, but could not find out whether machines are welcome. It came up empty on 9 other checks too. That is enough missing for a machine to give up before it reaches a purchase.

  1. 01

    patagonia.com

    reach the site at all

    reached
  2. 02

    /robots.txt

    find out whether machines are welcome

    not found
  3. 03

    patagonia.com

    ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names

    reached
  4. 04

    /llms.txt

    read the site's own guide for language models

    not found
  5. 05

    patagonia.com

    find out what pages exist

    not found
  6. 06

    /.well-known/security.txt

    find a contact route for machines

    not found
  7. 07

    patagonia.com

    find a published agent interface

    not found
  8. 08

    /.well-known/ai-plugin.json

    find an agent plugin manifest

    not found
  9. 09

    patagonia.com

    find out whether verified agents are recognised

    not found
  10. 10

    patagonia.com

    read the homepage as data rather than as a page

    not found
  11. 11

    patagonia.com

    find a machine readable API spec

    not found
  12. 12

    patagonia.com

    read the developer documentation

    not found
  13. 13

    patagonia.com

    read the prices without running JavaScript

    reached
  14. 14

    patagonia.com

    walk the way a visitor would, to a signup form or a product

    reached

Ten dimensions

Not measured is not zero.

The agent door

9 of 100

What a machine can do on your site with nobody watching.

Machine discoverability

Whether a retrieval system can find and read you at all.

13Blocking

A real browser opened the homepage and got 97 characters of rendered content, no headings or links. No sitemap, no robots.txt, no schema.org markup anywhere checked.

4 observations recorded.

Programmatic onboarding

Whether an agent can get working access without a human.

10Blocking

No developer docs, OpenAPI spec, or MCP manifest at any of the 9 standard paths checked. No signup flow exists either, but that matches a site with no account system, not an API program.

4 observations recorded.

Pricing legibility

Whether total cost can be computed from published numbers.

Not measured

Could not verify: this scan did not reach the pages that would show it.

1 observation recorded.

Agent-aware instrumentation

Whether you publish anything built for machine callers.

8Blocking

No MCP manifest at any of the 3 standard paths and no Web Bot Auth signals. There is no visible mechanism for an agent to identify itself or act with authority on this site.

4 observations recorded.

Machine-fetchable trust

Whether terms, security and status are readable as text.

15Blocking

No security.txt, no sitemap, no robots.txt. A machine has no signed or declared way to verify what this domain is or trust its intent.

2 observations recorded.

Commercial rails

Whether a purchase can complete without a sales call.

0Blocking

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3 observations recorded.

The human door

94 of 100

What a first time visitor meets between landing and first value.

Steps to first value

How far a new visitor travels before something useful happens.

95Strong

The entry_path probe found no signup and no sign-in anywhere on the homepage. A visitor who can actually load the site needs zero steps to reach whatever it offers.

1 observation recorded.

Required fields

How much you ask for before you give anything back.

100Strong

There is no form anywhere on the homepage, so nothing is asked of a visitor. Zero fields is the best possible outcome for this dimension.

1 observation recorded.

Verification walls

How many gates stand between intent and access.

100Strong

No account system exists, so there is no email, phone, or identity check standing between a visitor and the content.

1 observation recorded.

Error recovery

What happens when someone gets it wrong.

80Strong

With no form present there is nothing to submit incorrectly, so no error states were observed to test. The absence of forms caps how much can go wrong here.

1 observation recorded.

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