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.

POSIMYTH

Sagar Patel

Aditya from POSIMYTH

Sandip Patel

<p>RankReady is a WordPress plugin built for the AI search layer — the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews show before anyone reaches a blue link. Drop it in alongside your existing SEO plugin (Rank Math, Yoast, AIOSEO — any of them) and start showing up in AI answers and citations. <strong>No conflicts. No replacement. Zero frontend bloat.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://store.posimyth.com/plugins/rankready/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit the official RankReady page <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span></a></p>
<p>Traditional SEO plugins optimize for Google’s classic results. RankReady adds the layer above them: the AI SEO signals — Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF), llms.txt, FAQ schema, Markdown endpoints, AI crawler controls — that decide whether AI engines read and cite your content. This is generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO) for WordPress, built to work with the SEO plugin you already use.</p>
<h3>A quick walkthrough of the whole plugin.</h3>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JA-rEwMbqNo?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p>Built by <a href="https://posimyth.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">POSIMYTH Inc.</a> — the team behind The Plus Addons for Elementor, NexterWP, and UiChemy.</p>
<h3>Coexists with your SEO plugin — zero frontend impact</h3>
<p>Install RankReady, optionally pick an LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or DeepSeek) for the AI Summary and FAQ generators, and you’re set. It auto-detects your active SEO plugin and <strong>never emits duplicate schema</strong> — your existing Yoast or Rank Math setup keeps working exactly as before. All AI generation runs in the WordPress admin, so there are no API calls on page load, no third-party scripts, and no extra requests for your visitors. Core Web Vitals are unaffected.</p>
<h3>llms.txt — the AI-native sitemap</h3>
<p>RankReady serves the <a href="https://llmstxt.org" rel="nofollow ugc">llmstxt.org</a> standard at <code>/llms.txt</code> (a curated index of your best content) and <code>/llms-full.txt</code> (the full content concatenated as Markdown). AI crawlers read these files first to understand your site. Configurable post types, max post count, category and tag exclusions, and a per-domain brand identity (site name, summary, about section) you control from the <strong>AI Crawlers</strong> tab. Multilingual sites get hreflang Link headers when WPML, Polylang, TranslatePress, Weglot, or GTranslate is detected.</p>
<h3>AI Summary generator with Speakable schema</h3>
<p>Generate “Key Takeaways” for any post or page via your chosen LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, or DeepSeek). The summary injects above your content as a styled block with <strong>Speakable schema</strong> — the JSON-LD that voice assistants read aloud. Use the Regenerate button in the post editor, the Gutenberg block, or the Elementor widget. <strong>Unlimited manual generations.</strong></p>
<h3>FAQ schema generator with DataForSEO</h3>
<p>A strong signal for AI Overviews. RankReady can query DataForSEO for the real “People Also Ask” questions ranking for your post’s focus keyword, then has your chosen LLM write the answers. Output is FAQPage JSON-LD — the structured data Google AI Overviews and Perplexity frequently cite over plain article text. Don’t use DataForSEO? Type your own questions and let the LLM answer them. <strong>Unlimited manual generations.</strong> Setup guide in the FAQ section below.</p>
<h3>Author Box with basic E-E-A-T schema</h3>
<p>E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) is what AI models use to decide which sources to trust. RankReady ships a basic Author Box — name, job title, employer, bio, headshot, and basic sameAs links — with Article, Speakable, and FAQPage schema. It auto-detects Rank Math, Yoast, and AIOSEO and skips duplicate output. Display it anywhere via the Gutenberg block or the Elementor widget.</p>
<h3>Markdown endpoints for AI agents</h3>
<p>Every published post and page is served as clean Markdown at <code>/post-slug.md</code> with YAML frontmatter (title, author, dates). AI agents — Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, custom clients — read Markdown faster than HTML. Content negotiation via <code>Accept: text/markdown</code> lets crawlers fetch the format they prefer with no URL changes.</p>
<h3>Open Knowledge Format (OKF) — Google’s standard for AI agents</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog" rel="nofollow ugc">Google’s Open Knowledge Format</a> (OKF v0.1) is a vendor-neutral way to hand your whole site to AI agents as a clean, linked bundle of Markdown — instead of making them scrape your HTML. Turn it on from the AI Crawlers tab and RankReady serves a complete OKF bundle at <code>/okf/</code>:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>/okf/index.md</code> — a manifest of every page, grouped by type, each linked to its concept file</li>
<li><code>/okf/{slug}.md</code> — one Markdown concept per post, tagged with type, description, canonical URL and tags</li>
<li><code>/okf/log.md</code> — a dated change history</li>
<li>One-click <code>.zip</code> export for upload to Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog or a Git repository</li>
</ul>
<p>The bundle is generated entirely on your own server (nothing is sent to Google or anyone else), refreshes automatically whenever you publish or edit, and respects your noindex and per-post exclusion settings — noindexed content never enters the bundle.</p>
<h3>MCP via the WordPress Abilities API</h3>
<p>RankReady registers read-only abilities with the <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Model Context Protocol</a> through the WordPress Abilities API (<code>wp_register_ability()</code>). On WordPress 7.0 these are surfaced by the official MCP Adapter — no bundled MCP server, no extra service to run.</p>
<h3>Insights — AI referrals, bot activity, freshness</h3>
<p>The <strong>Insights</strong> tab gives you real, server-side analytics with no third-party scripts:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Training & Citation Bots</strong> — Which AI crawlers fetched which pages (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, and more). Each citation-bot hit is a live AI answer that retrieved your page.</li>
<li><strong>Real AI Referrals</strong> — Humans clicking through from chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, and copilot.microsoft.com, tracked via the HTTP Referer header.</li>
<li><strong>Content Freshness scanner</strong> — Buckets posts into Stale, Going stale, and Fresh, with one-click <code>dateModified</code> refresh to signal recency to AI crawlers.</li>
</ul>
<p>All counts are stored locally in your own tables — never sent to POSIMYTH.</p>
<h3>31 AI crawler controls + auto robots.txt</h3>
<p>Granular allow/block toggles for <strong>31 AI bots</strong>: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, FacebookBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Applebot-Extended, DuckAssistBot, YouBot, AI2Bot, Diffbot, Cohere-ai, Kagibot, and more. Auto-syncs your choices to <code>robots.txt</code> — both the WordPress virtual <code>robots.txt</code> and a physical <code>ABSPATH/robots.txt</code> if another plugin intercepts the URL. Plus Content Signals (<code>ai-train</code>, <code>search</code>, <code>ai-input</code> directives per <a href="https://contentsignals.org" rel="nofollow ugc">contentsignals.org</a>).</p>
<h3>Cache compatibility + Diagnostics</h3>
<p>RankReady persists cache-bypass entries to each cache plugin’s stored configuration so server-level caches honour the bypass before PHP runs — tested with WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Fastest Cache, Breeze, SG Optimizer, Hummingbird, Cache Enabler, Comet Cache, Swift Performance, NitroPack, Perfmatters, Cloudflare APO, Pantheon, Kinsta, and WP Engine. The <strong>Diagnostics</strong> card runs live endpoint probes, detects active SEO plugins, checks rewrite rules and REST routes, scans for cache conflicts, and gives you a one-click plain-text report for support — every failure ships with a one-line fix.</p>
<h3>Coming soon</h3>
<p>A companion add-on (in development) will layer advanced AI SEO automation on top of the free build:</p>
<ul>
<li>Auto-generate AI Summaries and FAQs on publish</li>
<li>Bulk-generate summaries and FAQs across your whole library</li>
<li>HowTo and ItemList JSON-LD</li>
<li>Advanced Person / E-E-A-T schema (credentials, education, certifications, memberships, awards, Wikidata / ORCID / Scholar / LinkedIn, editorial & fact-check policies, Author Trust Panel)</li>
<li>Custom post type support beyond posts and pages</li>
<li>Headless / WPGraphQL API for decoupled front ends</li>
</ul>
<p>These appear as “Coming soon” placeholders in the plugin and ship no code in the free build. Everything listed above the “Coming soon” heading is fully free, with no caps on manual generation.</p>
<h3>More Plugins from POSIMYTH</h3>
<p>RankReady is part of the POSIMYTH Innovations product family. If you build WordPress sites, you’ll probably want these too:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://theplusaddons.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">The Plus Addons for Elementor</a></strong> — 120+ premium Elementor widgets with Smart Animations, Carousels, and advanced filters. Powers 500,000+ sites.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://nexterwp.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">Nexter Blocks – Theme & Extension</a></strong> — The fast, AI-ready Gutenberg block library and theme framework. Built for Core Web Vitals.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://uichemy.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">UiChemy – Figma to WordPress</a></strong> — Convert any Figma design into responsive Elementor or Gutenberg layouts in one click. No code.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://wdesignkit.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">WDesignKit</a></strong> — A growing library of pre-built websites, pages, blocks, and templates for Elementor and Gutenberg.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://sproutos.com/?ref=rankreadyreadme" rel="nofollow ugc">SproutOS</a></strong> — The AI-native content operating system. Plan, draft, brief, and publish at scale.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy & Third-Party Services</h3>
<p>RankReady is privacy-respecting by default. POSIMYTH does not collect, store, or transmit any data from your site. No telemetry. No analytics. No “phone home”. Your API keys are stored only in your own <code>wp_options</code> table.</p>
<p>The plugin contacts third-party services <strong>only</strong> when you explicitly enter API credentials AND trigger a generation action. Each service is opt-in and uses <strong>your own API key</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>OpenAI</strong> (<a href="https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> · <a href="https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>) — When you generate an AI Summary or FAQ with OpenAI as your provider, the post’s title and body text are sent to <code>https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions</code> using your own API key. The generated response is stored as post meta on your site. Nothing is sent without an explicit click from you.</li>
<li><strong>Anthropic Claude</strong> (<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> · <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>) — When Anthropic is your provider, the same post text is sent to <code>https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages</code> using your own API key. Same opt-in trigger; same one-shot use.</li>
<li><strong>Google Gemini</strong> (<a href="https://ai.google.dev/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">API Terms</a> · <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>) — When Gemini is your provider, the same post text is sent to <code>https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/models/<model>:generateContent</code> using your own API key.</li>
<li><strong>DeepSeek</strong> (<a href="https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-terms-of-use.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Use</a> · <a href="https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-policy.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>) — When DeepSeek is your provider, the same post text is sent to <code>https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions</code> using your own API key.</li>
<li><strong>DataForSEO</strong> (<a href="https://dataforseo.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> · <a href="https://dataforseo.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>) — When you trigger the FAQ Generator, the post’s focus keyword is sent to <code>https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced</code> using your own DataForSEO Login plus Password. Only the keyword string is sent, not the article text. Discovered questions are stored as post meta on your site.</li>
</ul>
<p>No other endpoints are contacted. The plugin never sends any data on its own initiative — every outbound request is the direct result of an administrator action.</p>


RankReady – AI & LLM SEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI


We've used RankReady since beta launch on our sites to make them "AI crawler" ready, and we're happy with it so far.


Great plugin! 🎉


Good plugin For SEO and Interlinking and best for AEO Ranking. 


Good One !


This plugin offers many features that are essential today based on how the web is changing. There are a few other plugins but none offer everything together like RankReady. Thanks for this. 


Very useful

Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude & Google AI. Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF), llms.txt, AI summaries, FAQ schema & AI crawler control.

OARS Agent Readiness vs RankReady – AI & LLM SEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI