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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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