knovai

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 AI readiness (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.
The Open Agent Readiness Standard (OARS) 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.
<h4>Free</h4>
<ul>
<li>oars.json — a machine-readable knowledge declaration served at your domain root, auto-populated from your site title, tagline, categories, and pages.</li>
<li>llms.txt — a clean Markdown summary for LLMs (guaranteed to meet the 200-word minimum).</li>
<li>AI bot directives — adds rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai and GoogleBot-Extended to robots.txt.</li>
<li>Schema.org identity — injects Organization JSON-LD on your homepage.</li>
<li>Content-Signal headers — declares your AI usage preferences (search / input / training).</li>
<li>Live readiness score — 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>Level 0 baseline — security headers, optional report-only CSP, Link headers, and CORS on your agent files.</li>
<li>/llms-full.txt, /.well-known/oars.json, sitemap fallback and a guided first-run setup wizard.</li>
<li>Bring-your-own LLM (optional) — connect OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to enrich your identity fields and llms.txt narrative.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro (separate add-on)</h4>
OARS Pro is a separate plugin you install alongside this one (available from tylerewillis.com). It adds:
<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>
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>.
<h3>External services</h3>
The OARS Agent Readiness plugin works fully without contacting any third party. Some optional features connect to external services only when you enable them:
<ul>
<li>AI enrichment (optional). 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>Readiness self-check. 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>
(The optional OARS Pro add-on validates a license key with tylerewillis.com; that disclosure ships with the Pro plugin, not this free plugin.)
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.

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.

heytc

GetCited helps your content get discovered and cited by AI systems.
While traditional SEO plugins optimize for Google, GetCited optimizes for the AI-powered future. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI systems are answering millions of questions daily. Is your content visible to them?
<h4>What GetCited Does</h4>
🤖 AI Crawler Management 
Control which AI systems can access your content. Toggle access for 31 different AI crawlers including GPTBot (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and more. Your settings automatically update your robots.txt.
📄 llms.txt Generator 
Create and serve an llms.txt file — the emerging standard for AI discoverability. Like robots.txt told search engines how to crawl your site, llms.txt tells AI systems what your site is about.
🔧 AI-Optimized Schema 
Output JSON-LD structured data that AI systems actually parse. Includes Organization, Article, Author, and FAQ schema types optimized for AI understanding.
📊 Content Citability Scoring 
Analyze your content to see how likely it is to be cited by AI. Get a 0-100 score based on factors like: 
– Clear opening summaries 
– Heading structure 
– FAQ sections 
– Content depth 
– Author attribution 
– And more
⚡ Lightweight & Fast 
Zero impact on your front-end performance. No JavaScript or CSS loaded for visitors. Works alongside your existing SEO plugin.
<h4>Works With Your Existing Setup</h4>
GetCited complements Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and other SEO plugins. They handle Google optimization — we handle AI visibility.
<h4>Third Party Services</h4>
GetCited connects to the following external service:
Crawler List Updates 
– Service: GetCited API (heytc.com) 
– URL: <code>https://heytc.com/getcited-api/crawlers.json</code> 
– When: Once daily via WordPress cron 
– Data Sent: None (GET request only) 
– Data Received: JSON file (~2KB) containing AI crawler names and user-agent strings 
– Purpose: Keeps your crawler list current without requiring plugin updates 
– Privacy Policy: <a href="https://heytc.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://heytc.com/privacy-policy/</a>
This request is made from your server, not from visitors’ browsers. No personal data, site content, or usage information is transmitted. If the request fails, the plugin falls back to its bundled crawler list.

GetCited — AI Visibility

Optimize for AI search. The AI visibility plugin — manage crawlers, generate llms.txt, track citability.

OARS Agent Readiness vs GetCited — AI Visibility