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AB-016

JSON Format Support

🔄 Content Negotiation Pillar: Discovery Moderate effort Severity: medium Est. cost: $10-50 Gap: documentation Fix: deterministic

What it means

Your site returns JSON when an agent requests it.

Why it matters

JSON is the universal language for APIs. If agents can't get JSON, they can't use your data.

Evidence expected

This rule is verified by:

http Source: Runtime probe
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What's wrong

Requesting JSON always returns HTML. Agents can't extract data.

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What's right

Requesting JSON returns clean JSON data that agents can parse.

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