# Techdirt: agent door 34, human door not measured
- Site: techdirt.com
- Scanned: 2026-09-09
- Scan type: Basic scan
- Business type: content
- Report: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/techdirt-rdx66g
- Scanner version: 25
0 human and 3 agent dimensions measured from the pages checked; remaining dimensions are not scored.
## Scores
| Measure | Score |
| --- | --- |
| Humans | not measured |
| Agents | 34/100 (3/6 dimensions) |
| Composite | 34/100 |
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 scanner recorded successful observations for 3 of 12 checks, but could not ask whether the door opens for requests carrying the AI crawlers' names. It came up empty on 8 other checks too. 1 checks could not be measured; see the report limitations.
- ok      reach the site at all
- ok      find out whether machines are welcome
- missing 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
- missing read the homepage as data rather than as a page
- missing find a machine readable API spec
- missing read the developer documentation
## Top issues
1. **No MCP manifest was identified at the 3 standard paths checked.** (agent_aware_instrumentation)
2. **No valid security.txt was identified at /.well-known/security.txt.** (machine_fetchable_trust)
3. **No valid llms.txt was identified at the site root.** (machine_discoverability)
The evidence and the recommended fix for each are on the report page: https://www.seconddoor.io/r/techdirt-rdx66g
## Files generated from this scan
- **Let verified assistants through** at `notes`, 1 hour, developer. Verify: On a subsequent scan, compare the same endpoint and client response. An unavailable check remains unresolved.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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/techdirt-rdx66g
## The agent door
- **machine_discoverability** 53/100. No restriction on the tested crawler names was found in robots.txt. on its first visit, our browser read the homepage. our client was refused when declaring 3 AI crawlers that robots.txt welcomes. a sitemap listing 3 URLs.
- **programmatic_onboarding** not measured. Not applicable to this scanned surface.
- **pricing_legibility** not measured. Not applicable to this scanned surface.
- **agent_aware_instrumentation** 8/100. No MCP manifest was identified at the discovery paths checked.
- **machine_fetchable_trust** 40/100. No security.txt was identified at the checked path. the homepage answers automated requests.
- **commercial_rails** not measured. Not applicable to this scanned surface.
## The human door
- **steps_to_first_value** not measured. Not measured: an access refusal or challenge prevented our scanner from reading the required page.
- **required_fields** not measured. Not measured: an access refusal or challenge prevented our scanner from reading the required page.
- **verification_walls** not measured. Not measured: an access refusal or challenge prevented our scanner from reading the required page.
- **error_recovery** not measured. Not measured: an access refusal or challenge prevented our scanner from reading the required page.
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