OARS Agent Readiness for WordPress

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 Knov.ai defines what makes a site machine-operable. This plugin handles the low-hanging fruit automatically and scores the rest.

Free

oars.json — a machine-readable knowledge declaration served at your domain root, auto-populated from your site title, tagline, categories, and pages.

llms.txt — a clean Markdown summary for LLMs (guaranteed to meet the 200-word minimum).

AI bot directives — adds rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai and GoogleBot-Extended to robots.txt.

Schema.org identity — injects Organization JSON-LD on your homepage.

Content-Signal headers — declares your AI usage preferences (search / input / training).

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.

Level 0 baseline — security headers, optional report-only CSP, Link headers, and CORS on your agent files.

/llms-full.txt, /.well-known/oars.json, sitemap fallback and a guided first-run setup wizard.