Vercel

vercel.com/docs
Score: 87 out of 100, grade B87
Grade B
Last checked: September 9, 2026 · afdocs v0.18.7 · Rerun
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Vercel scores 87/100 (Grade B), passing 16 of 23 checks (70%). The documentation is broadly accessible to AI agents but has 5 areas that could be improved to better serve automated tooling.

# Agent Score Fix Report — Vercel
URL: https://vercel.com/docs
Score: 87/100 (Grade B)

I need help improving the AI-readiness of the documentation at https://vercel.com/docs.
Agent Score found 5 failing checks and 0 warnings.

## Failing Checks (5)
- [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Links Markdown: Same-origin links point to HTML and no markdown alternatives detected
- [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Directive Html: No llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 10 sampled pages
- [content-discoverability] Llms Txt Directive Md: No llms.txt directive found in markdown of any of 10 sampled pages
- [page-size] Content Start Position: 2 of 10 sampled pages have content starting past 50% (worst 53%)
- [observability] Markdown Content Parity: 2 of 10 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 19% missing)



## Fix Instructions

For each issue above, please:
1. Analyze the documentation site at https://vercel.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://vercel.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

How your docs scored

auth-gate-detectionAll 10 sampled pages are publicly accessibleLearn more
auth-alternative-accessAll docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths neededLearn more
llms-txt-links-markdownSame-origin links point to HTML and no markdown alternatives detectedLearn more
llms-txt-directive-htmlNo llms.txt directive found in HTML of any of 10 sampled pagesLearn more
llms-txt-directive-mdNo llms.txt directive found in markdown of any of 10 sampled pagesLearn more
llms-txt-existsllms.txt found at 2 locations; using https://vercel.com/docs/llms.txt as canonicalLearn more
llms-txt-validllms.txt follows the proposed structure (H1, blockquote, heading-delimited link sections)Learn more
llms-txt-sizellms.txt is 3,797 characters (under 50,000 threshold)Learn more
llms-txt-links-resolveAll 10 same-origin sampled links resolve (19 total links)Learn more
tabbed-content-serialization4 tab group(s) across 2 of 10 sampled pages; all serialize under 50K charsLearn more
markdown-code-fence-validityAll 24 code fences properly closed across 12 pagesLearn more
section-header-quality2 page(s) with tabs found, but no section headers inside tab panels to evaluateLearn more
markdown-content-parity2 of 10 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 19% missing)Learn more
llms-txt-coveragellms.txt covers 100% of 0 sitemap doc pages; 2 nested indexes omitted (1916 sitemap pages excluded); 2348 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap)Learn more
cache-header-hygieneAll 12 endpoints have appropriate cache headersLearn more
content-start-position2 of 10 sampled pages have content starting past 50% (worst 53%)Learn more
rendering-strategyAll 10 sampled pages contain server-rendered contentLearn more
page-size-markdownAll 10 pages under 50K chars (median 10K, max 26K)Learn more
page-size-htmlAll 10 sampled pages under 50K chars (median 862K HTML → 24K markdown (97% boilerplate))Learn more
markdown-url-support10/10 sampled pages support .md URLs (100%)Learn more
content-negotiation10/10 sampled pages support content negotiation (100%)Learn more
http-status-codesAll 10 sampled pages return proper error codes for bad URLsLearn more
redirect-behaviorAll 1 redirect(s) across 10 sampled pages are same-host HTTP redirectsLearn more

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