Clerk scores 82/100 (Grade B), passing 15 of 23 checks (65%). The documentation is broadly accessible to AI agents but has 6 areas that could be improved to better serve automated tooling.
# Agent Score Fix Report — Clerk URL: https://clerk.com/docs Score: 82/100 (Grade B) I need help improving the AI-readiness of the documentation at https://clerk.com/docs. Agent Score found 4 failing checks and 2 warnings. ## Failing Checks (4) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Size: llms.txt is 520,202 characters (exceeds 100,000 threshold; will be truncated by most agents) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Directive Html: No llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 10 sampled pages - [page-size] Content Start Position: 7 of 10 sampled pages have content starting past 50% (worst 89%) - [observability] Markdown Content Parity: 5 of 10 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 16% missing) ## Warnings (2) - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Valid: llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://clerk.com/docs/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found - [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Directive Md: llms.txt directive found in markdown of 10 of 10 sampled pages, but buried deep in the page (past 50%) ## Fix Instructions For each issue above, please: 1. Analyze the documentation site at https://clerk.com/docs 2. Implement the specific fix 3. Verify the fix would cause the check to pass ### Common fixes: - **No llms.txt**: Create /llms.txt following https://llmstxt.org — list all doc pages in markdown format - **No .md URL support**: Configure your docs platform to serve pages at equivalent .md URLs (e.g. /docs/quickstart.md) - **No content negotiation**: Return markdown when request includes Accept: text/markdown header - **Large page size**: Reduce nav boilerplate, inline scripts, and repetitive markup - **No sitemap**: Generate /sitemap.xml listing all documentation URLs - **Auth walls**: Ensure docs pages return 200 without requiring login cookies or tokens - **No Last-Modified header**: Configure your server/CDN to include Last-Modified response headers - **Tab content hidden**: Ensure tabbed content is rendered in the HTML (not JS-only) so agents can read all variants ## Run afdocs Locally for More Detail To get deeper visibility into what's failing, run afdocs against your docs: npx afdocs check https://clerk.com/docs --fixes --verbose - **--fixes**: Adds "Fix:" lines to the output for each warn/fail check with actionable remediation steps - **-v, --verbose**: Shows per-page details (specific URLs, character counts, error codes) for checks with issues — useful for per-URL visibility into what's failing
CHECK RESULTS
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auth-alternative-accessAll docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths neededLearn more
llms-txt-sizellms.txt is 520,202 characters (exceeds 100,000 threshold; will be truncated by most agents)Learn more
llms-txt-validllms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://clerk.com/docs/llms.txt: No blockquote summary foundLearn more
llms-txt-directive-mdllms.txt directive found in markdown of 10 of 10 sampled pages, but buried deep in the page (past 50%)Learn more
llms-txt-existsllms.txt found at 2 locations; using https://clerk.com/docs/llms.txt as canonicalLearn more
tabbed-content-serialization1 tab group(s) across 1 of 10 sampled pages; all serialize under 50K charsLearn more
section-header-quality1 page(s) with tabs found, but no section headers inside tab panels to evaluateLearn more
markdown-content-parity5 of 10 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 16% missing)Learn more
llms-txt-coveragellms.txt covers 97% of 2488 sitemap doc pages; 78 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap)Learn more
page-size-htmlAll 10 sampled pages under 50K chars (median 965K HTML → 18K markdown (98% boilerplate))Learn more