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AB-063
Protected Resource Metadata
🔐 Bot Authentication
Pillar: Executability
Moderate effort
Severity: medium
Est. cost: $10-50
Gap: capability
Fix: manual
What it means
Your site publishes metadata about what resources are protected and how.
Why it matters
This metadata tells agents which endpoints need authentication and what type, so they know before making requests.
Evidence expected
This rule is verified by:
http html Source: Website content
✗
What's wrong
No protected resource metadata. Agents don't know which endpoints need auth.
✓
What's right
Protected resource metadata clearly indicates which endpoints need auth and how.
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