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AB-011

Rate Limits Declared

🤖 Machine-Readable Pillar: Discovery Moderate effort Severity: low Est. cost: $10-50 Gap: documentation Fix: deterministic

What it means

Your site declares its rate limits in a machine-readable format.

Why it matters

Without rate limit info, agents may get blocked for making too many requests. With it, they pace themselves.

Evidence expected

This rule is verified by:

http html Source: Website content
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What's wrong

No rate limit info. Agents get blocked unexpectedly.

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What's right

Rate limits are declared, so agents know exactly how fast they can make requests.

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