knovai

<p>AI agents and AI crawlers are increasingly the ones visiting your site — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and their bots (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, GoogleBot-Extended) research, recommend, and act on behalf of users. Traditional SEO doesn’t cover this. OARS is <strong>AI readiness</strong> (sometimes called AI SEO, Generative Engine Optimization / GEO, or Answer Engine Optimization / AEO): it publishes the machine-readable signals AI systems need to find, read, and correctly represent you.</p>
<p>The <strong>Open Agent Readiness Standard (OARS)</strong> by <a href="https://knov.ai" rel="nofollow ugc">Knov.ai</a> defines what makes a site machine-operable. This plugin handles the low-hanging fruit automatically and scores the rest.</p>
<h4>Free</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>oars.json</strong> — a machine-readable knowledge declaration served at your domain root, auto-populated from your site title, tagline, categories, and pages.</li>
<li><strong>llms.txt</strong> — a clean Markdown summary for LLMs (guaranteed to meet the 200-word minimum).</li>
<li><strong>AI bot directives</strong> — adds rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai and GoogleBot-Extended to robots.txt.</li>
<li><strong>Schema.org identity</strong> — injects Organization JSON-LD on your homepage.</li>
<li><strong>Content-Signal headers</strong> — declares your AI usage preferences (search / input / training).</li>
<li><strong>Live readiness score</strong> — the scorecard self-fetches your real URLs and headers, so it reflects what agents actually see; every gap is flagged with a fix and a proof link.</li>
<li><strong>Level 0 baseline</strong> — security headers, optional report-only CSP, Link headers, and CORS on your agent files.</li>
<li><strong>/llms-full.txt, /.well-known/oars.json, sitemap fallback</strong> and a guided first-run setup wizard.</li>
<li><strong>Bring-your-own LLM</strong> (optional) — connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to enrich your identity fields and llms.txt narrative.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro (separate add-on)</h4>
<p>OARS Pro is a separate plugin you install alongside this one (available from tylerewillis.com). It adds:</p>
<ul>
<li>Agent API (Level 3) — read-only REST endpoints, OpenAPI 3.1 contract, and an A2A agent card.</li>
<li>Web Bot Auth signing-key directory and Agent Skills discovery (.well-known).</li>
<li>Level 4a machine-readable product catalog from WooCommerce.</li>
<li>Full Level 1–2 scoring with per-check remediation.</li>
<li>Weekly monitoring with an email alert if your score drops.</li>
<li>Advanced Schema.org — Service, Product, and FAQPage auto-generated from your pages and WooCommerce catalog.</li>
<li>Markdown content negotiation (<code>Accept: text/markdown</code>) for agents.</li>
<li>Scheduled regeneration as your content changes.</li>
<li>WP Multisite / network management.</li>
<li>One-click submission to the Knov.ai directory + verification ID.</li>
<li>OARS compliance badge shortcode.</li>
</ul>
<p>Pro is licensed per site or per agency. Learn more at <a href="https://tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">tylerewillis.com/tools/oars-for-wordpress</a>.</p>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>The OARS Agent Readiness plugin works fully without contacting any third party. Some optional features connect to external services only when you enable them:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>AI enrichment (optional).</strong> If you add an API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, the plugin sends the text content you ask it to process (e.g. your page titles and excerpts) to that provider to generate llms.txt narrative, identity suggestions, or FAQ content. Data is sent only when you click a generate button. Review each provider’s terms and privacy policy: OpenAI (https://openai.com/policies/), Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy), Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy).</li>
<li><strong>Readiness self-check.</strong> The dashboard score fetches your own site’s public URLs (e.g. /llms.txt, /oars.json, your homepage) to verify what agents actually receive. These requests go to your own domain, not a third party.</li>
</ul>
<p>(The optional OARS Pro add-on validates a license key with tylerewillis.com; that disclosure ships with the Pro plugin, not this free plugin.)</p>
<p>The “Scan headers”, “PageSpeed”, and “Validate schema” buttons simply open external tools in a new browser tab; OARS does not send your data to them from the server.</p>


OARS Agent Readiness

AI readiness & AI SEO: add llms.txt, AI bot directives, Schema.org and oars.json so AI agents and crawlers can find, read and understand your site.

Saskia Teichmann

<p><strong>AI is changing how people find your website.</strong> Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews are replacing traditional search for millions of users. If AI can’t find your content, you’re invisible to a growing audience.</p>
<p>citelayer® makes your WordPress site visible to AI — instantly. No coding, no configuration. Install, activate, done.</p>
<h4>🤖 AI Bot Analytics — Know Who’s Crawling Your Site</h4>
<p>Track every AI search-engine visitor and bot crawl in real time. See which AI platforms — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini — send actual users to your site, and watch the bot traffic that’s discovering your content for those platforms.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>67 AI/LLM Bots Tracked</strong> — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, DeepSeekBot, xAI-Bot, Meta-ExternalAgent, and 60 more</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time Dashboard</strong> — Stat cards (7d/30d/90d/all-time), 30-day SVG trend chart, top bots leaderboard</li>
<li><strong>AI Blind Spots</strong> — Discover pages invisible to AI bots with AI Discovery Score (0-100). Find and fix content gaps</li>
<li><strong>Crawler Logs</strong> — Full log with filtering by bot, URL path, and date range. Paginated for large datasets</li>
<li><strong>CSV Export</strong> — Download your bot data for offline analysis</li>
<li><strong>Cache Plugin Detection</strong> — Auto-detects WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache. Provides setup guides to exclude AI bots from caching</li>
<li><strong>90-Day Auto-Cleanup</strong> — Keeps your database lean. No bloat, no maintenance</li>
<li><strong>100% Local</strong> — All data stored in your WordPress database. No external accounts, no API calls</li>
</ul>
<h4>🔍 Get Found by AI Search Engines</h4>
<p>Your site gets an llms.txt file — a new standard that tells AI crawlers what your site is about, what content you publish, and what products you sell. Think of it as robots.txt, but for AI.</p>
<h4>📊 Speak AI’s Language with Schema.org</h4>
<p>Automatically generates structured data (JSON-LD) that AI agents actually understand — your organization info, articles, products, and more. Better structured data = better AI recommendations.</p>
<h4>📄 Serve Clean Content to AI Agents</h4>
<p>When ChatGPT or Perplexity visit your page, citelayer® serves an optimized Markdown version instead of messy HTML. This uses 80% fewer tokens and gives AI a crystal-clear picture of your content.</p>
<h4>🛡️ Stay in Control of Your Content</h4>
<p>Configure how AI systems may use your content — allow or deny training, search indexing, and RAG/context usage. Your content, your rules.</p>
<h4>🛒 Works with WooCommerce</h4>
<p>If you run a shop, citelayer® makes your products visible to AI:</p>
<ul>
<li>Product data automatically included in llms.txt</li>
<li>Product Schema.org markup generated</li>
<li>Product pages served as structured Markdown tables</li>
<li>AI agents can discover your shop via UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)</li>
</ul>
<h4>📈 Why AI Visibility Matters Now</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>58% of online searches</strong> will involve AI by the end of 2026</li>
<li>Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) are the next evolution of SEO</li>
<li>Sites without AI-readable content are <strong>invisible</strong> to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and AI Overviews</li>
<li>citelayer® is the easiest way to make your WordPress site AI-ready</li>
</ul>
<h4>✅ Free vs. Premium</h4>
<p>The free plugin covers everything you need to get started:</p>
<p>✅ llms.txt generation<br />
✅ Schema.org markup (Organization, WebSite, Article, Product)<br />
✅ Markdown for AI agents<br />
✅ Content-Signal headers<br />
✅ WooCommerce product discovery<br />
✅ AI Bot Analytics (67 bots, dashboard, AI Blind Spots, CSV export)<br />
✅ AI Referral Tracking (Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot)<br />
✅ AI Readiness Scanner<br />
✅ Cache plugin detection & setup guides</p>
<p><strong>Premium adds:</strong></p>
<p>🚀 Full UCP product browsing, cart & checkout for AI agents<br />
📈 AI Visibility Monitoring Dashboard<br />
🔧 Advanced Schema.org (Reviews, FAQ, Shipping)<br />
🛒 Product feed optimization</p>
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