360 check, 11 Nov 2026
Dick's Sporting Goods on the pay layer: the 360 agent-readiness check
Dick's Sporting Goods scores 16 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, an F, read 14 Nov 2026. The six payment checks did not apply to dickssportinggoods.com on this read, which is how Ora treats a site it does not read as a shop. Six agents blocked at the door, and a GraphQL endpoint waiting behind the shield.
On 14 Nov 2026 the public site at dickssportinggoods.com scored 16 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, an F. Dick's Sporting Goods is the largest sporting goods retailer in the United States, so this check reads the Payments layer first: the six checks that look for x402, MPP, UCP, ACP and AP2 on the domain, the same protocols this site's matrix tracks row by row. The other layers follow, with every check Ora ran and what it saw. Ora's one-line summary: Public API with reachable endpoints, but lacks an OpenAPI specification.
The score
| Layer | Points | Share | What the layer asks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 3 of 8 | 38% | Can agents find and recommend it |
| Access | 0 of 44 | 0% | Can agents read it |
| Usability | 8 of 44 | 18% | Can agents use it |
| Payments | 0 of 0 | none apply | Can agents pay |
| Total | 16 of 100 | 16% | Grade F |
The pay layer
Ora did not run the six payment checks against dickssportinggoods.com on this read: it marks them not applicable on a site it does not read as a shop, so the layer has no maximum and costs nothing. A retailer that sells online can still publish any of the five protocols; the matrix says which processors and platforms carry each one. Each protocol links to its matrix row, where the processors and platforms that carry it are dated and sourced.
| Payment check | Result | Points | Matrix row | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x402 | Does not apply | 0 of 2 | x402 in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
| MPP | Does not apply | 0 of 2 | MPP in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
| UCP | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | UCP in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
| ACP | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | ACP in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
| ACP delegate payment | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | ACP in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
| AP2 | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | AP2 in the matrix | No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
The other layers, check by check
Every check Ora ran on dickssportinggoods.com, grouped by layer, with the result, the points and what Ora recorded where its wording passes this site's gate.
Discovery: 3 of 8
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARD discovery | Fail | 0 of 1 | No /.well-known/ard.json (and no legacy /.well-known/ai-catalog.json) |
| Developer resource discoverability | Partial | 1 of 3 | Agent struggled to find developer resources by name - only 1 result(s) out of 10. Not found in this search sample: API docs, OpenAPI spec, developer portal, auth docs, MCP server, SDK documentation |
| Brand name discoverability | Partial | 1 of 3 | dickssportinggoods.com appears once in brand-name search results for "dickssportinggoods" (position #5 out of 7) |
| Wikipedia / Wikidata entity presence | Fail | 0 of 4 | No Wikipedia article or Wikidata entity found for "dickssportinggoods" - creating a Wikipedia page and a Wikidata item with P856 = dickssportinggoods.com is the highest-impact step for AI search citation coverage |
| NPM/PyPI SDK package | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Agent platform configs | Fail | 0 of 1 | Could not locate a public repo containing agent configs or rules. If our probes missed it, AI coding agents likely will too - link the repo from your homepage or docs so it's discoverable. |
| Agent Plugins manifest | Fail | 0 of 1 | No Agent Plugins manifest (plugin.json) found in discovered repos |
| ChatGPT app listed | Fail | 0 of 2 | Not found in ChatGPT app directory |
Access: 0 of 44
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No sitemap found |
| Content without JavaScript | Not run | 0 of 3 | Could not fetch homepage |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Fail | 0 of 2 | Agents blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended |
| Agent discovery file | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent discovery file found |
| A2A / agent-card | Fail | 0 of 2 | No A2A agent card found at /.well-known/agent-card.json |
| Listed on skills.sh | Fail | 0 of 1 | No official skills self-published on skills.sh (5 community skills with potential relation to this domain found, but only self-published official skills count) |
| pricing.md exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No pricing.md found - agents need machine-readable pricing to compare products and make purchase recommendations |
| NLWeb Schema Feeds | Fail | 0 of 1 | No robots.txt found - cannot check for Schema Feeds |
| MCP well-known discovery | Fail | 0 of 2 | No MCP server URL discovered |
| Agent mode view | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent mode view detected at ?mode=agent (optional) |
| HTTP Link headers (RFC 8288) | Fail | 0 of 1 | No HTTP Link response headers (RFC 8288) found |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 | Homepage does not support the .md suffix. Probed https://dickssportinggoods.com/index.md and it did not return markdown (expected text/markdown content-type or a heading-led non-HTML body). |
| Modular llms.txt per product area | Fail | 0 of 1 | No section-level llms.txt files found (optional) |
| llms.txt exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No llms.txt found at /llms.txt or /.well-known/llms.txt. |
| llms.txt formatting | Fail | 0 of 2 | No llms.txt found to evaluate quality |
| JSON-LD structured data | Not run | 0 of 4 | Could not fetch homepage |
| Pricing info accessible | Fail | 0 of 3 | No pricing page or pricing data found |
| Public API/docs linked from homepage | Fail | 0 of 3 | No public API or documentation page linked from homepage |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use | Fail | 0 of 3 | No agent instruction file with when-to-use guidance found |
| Skills.sh skill quality | Fail | 0 of 2 | No official skills on skills.sh to evaluate |
| JSON-LD entity linking (sameAs) | Not run | 0 of 2 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| Metadata completeness | Not run | 0 of 2 | Could not fetch homepage |
| Organization schema completeness | Not run | 0 of 2 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| Schema type breadth | Not run | 0 of 2 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| Trust anchor pages | Fail | 0 of 2 | No trust anchor pages found with sufficient content (About, Contact, Privacy) |
| OpenAPI spec published | Fail | 0 of 7 | No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/api-catalog found (RFC 9727) |
| Markdown agent docs | Fail | 0 of 1 | Missing markdown content negotiation. Homepage returned text/html when probed with Accept: text/markdown (expected text/markdown), and none of the well-known root paths (/llms.md, /auth.md, /agents.md, /developers.md |
| Markdown content negotiation (acceptmarkdown.com) | Fail | 0 of 1 | Homepage https://dickssportinggoods.com does not meet the Markdown negotiation requirements: Accept: text/markdown returned text/html; Vary header missing Accept (got "none") |
| Bot-UA markdown serving | Fail | 0 of 1 | No probed bot User-Agent (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, ora-agent, DeepSeekBot) receives markdown when requesting HTML. |
| Agent crawler reachability | Fail | 0 of 2 | No major AI crawler can reach the homepage - ChatGPT-User: blocked, ClaudeBot: blocked, Google-Extended: blocked, ora-agent: blocked, DeepSeekBot: blocked |
Usability: 8 of 44
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public API with reachable endpoints | Pass | 7 of 7 | GraphQL endpoint at https://dickssportinggoods.com/graphql is reachable; introspection requires authentication (API key / OAuth), which is expected for agent access. Best-of-protocols score: 7/7. |
| Agent onboarding friction | Fail | 0 of 2 | Insufficient content to evaluate onboarding friction |
| Web Bot Auth directory | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory found |
| OAuth Protected Resource metadata (RFC 9728) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource found (RFC 9728) |
| auth.md exists | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /auth.md found at site root |
| auth.md structure | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /auth.md found at site root |
| Agent auth discovery metadata | Fail | 0 of 3 | Neither /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource nor /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server found. Probed: dickssportinggoods.com, api.dickssportinggoods.com. |
| Agent auth WWW-Authenticate hint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=... found. Probed [https://dickssportinggoods.com/api, https://dickssportinggoods.com/api/v1, https://dickssportinggoods.com/v1, https://dickssportinggoods.com/v2 |
| agent_auth endpoints reachable | Fail | 0 of 2 | No agent_auth endpoint URIs found in AS metadata or /auth.md prose; nothing to probe |
| MCP server / manifest | Fail | 0 of 6 | No MCP server or manifest found |
| WebMCP support | Fail | 0 of 5 | No WebMCP support detected - no tool-attribute forms and no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found |
| Rate limit response headers | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no header convention documented on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| Idempotency-Key support | Fail | 0 of 3 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no idempotency documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| JSON error responses | Fail | 0 of 4 | API does not return JSON error responses (or no API detected) |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint | Pass | 1 of 1 | NLWeb /ask endpoint exists but requires authentication (HTTP 403, via GET) |
| NLWeb streaming support | Fail | 0 of 1 | NLWeb /ask requires authentication - cannot verify streaming |
| MCP server-card.json | Fail | 0 of 2 | No MCP server card found at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json |
| Product + docs MCP coverage | Fail | 0 of 2 | This bonus needs two MCP servers: one for your product so agents can take actions, and a separate one for your documentation so agents can answer questions from your docs. |
| Sandbox / test environment | Fail | 0 of 2 | No sandbox or test environment found |
| GraphQL typed error model | Fail | 0 of 3 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no typed graphql error model documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| GraphQL versioning / deprecation policy | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no graphql versioning / deprecation policy documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| GraphQL pagination pattern | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no graphql pagination pattern documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| GraphQL async-job pattern | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL introspection auth-gated and no graphql async-job pattern documentation found on GraphQL-tagged pages |
| Agent-friendly 404s | Partial | 1 of 2 | Nonexistent paths return HTTP 403 instead of 404/410 - agents get a non-200 signal but not the standard not-found semantics |
| API schema complexity analysis | Fail | 0 of 2 | GraphQL: introspection auth-gated and no schema evidence in docs |
| Function calling compatibility | Fail | 0 of 2 | No API spec found - function calling requires discoverable endpoints |
The fixes worth most points
Ora attaches an estimate to each failing or partial check: how many points the site would gain by passing it. These are the 5 with the largest estimates for Dick's Sporting Goods.
- MCP server / manifest
- Fail, 0 of 6, about 6.1 points to gain. Ora saw:
No MCP server or manifest found
. - Developer resource discoverability
- Partial, 1 of 3, about 5.6 points to gain. Ora saw:
Agent struggled to find developer resources by name - only 1 result(s) out of 10. Not found in this search sample: API docs, OpenAPI spec, developer portal, auth docs, MCP server, SDK documentation
. - Brand name discoverability
- Partial, 1 of 3, about 5.6 points to gain. Ora saw:
dickssportinggoods.com appears once in brand-name search results for "dickssportinggoods" (position #5 out of 7)
. - OpenAPI spec published
- Fail, 0 of 7, about 5.3 points to gain. Ora saw:
No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found
. - WebMCP support
- Fail, 0 of 5, about 5.1 points to gain. Ora saw:
No WebMCP support detected - no tool-attribute forms and no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found
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Our read
Dick's Sporting Goods turns agents away at the door, and with the home page unreadable Ora found no commerce signals, so the six payment checks did not apply on this read. Bot detection blocked GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended, and robots.txt answered with a 403. The Access layer reads 0 of 44. Because the home page could not be fetched, the JSON-LD, metadata and text rows are unverified rather than failed. Behind the shield there is more than the score shows: a GraphQL endpoint at dickssportinggoods.com/graphql whose introspection requires authentication, an SDK package on npm, and an NLWeb /ask endpoint that answers with a 403. Neither an MCP server nor an OpenAPI specification turned up, and the MCP server is the fix worth most, about 6 points. The brand search and the Wikipedia lookup ran on the bare string dickssportinggoods, which describes the probe more than the retailer. An F at 16, decided at the door before a single shelf was read.
Test your own checkout
The scan above is free and needs no account: enter a domain at ora.ai and read the same layers for your own site, with the six payment checks mapped to this matrix on the Ora Payments page. The command below runs the same audit from a terminal and exits with 1 under the score you set, so it can gate a deploy. Why Ora, and its limits.
npx ax@0.10 audit https://example.com --min-score 70All 360 checks, one company a day. Corrections to the corrections page.
Sources
- ora.ai/api/score/dickssportinggoods.com, Ora's scan (vendor), read 14 Nov 2026
- Ora check catalog (GET /api/checks), read 14 Nov 2026
- dickssportinggoods.com, the company's site, read 14 Nov 2026
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