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AB-017

Plain Text Format Support

🔄 Content Negotiation Pillar: Discovery Quick fix Severity: medium Est. cost: $0 Gap: documentation Fix: deterministic

What it means

Your site returns plain text when an agent requests it.

Why it matters

Some AI models work best with plain text. Offering it makes your content accessible to more agents.

Evidence expected

This rule is verified by:

http Source: Runtime probe
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What's wrong

Only HTML and JSON available. Text-only AI models can't use your content.

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What's right

Plain text is available for AI models that prefer it.

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