360 check, 9 Nov 2026
eBay on the pay layer: the 360 agent-readiness check
eBay scores 30 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, read 14 Nov 2026. The six payment checks did not apply to ebay.com on this read, which is how Ora treats a site it does not read as a shop. A read that got no page back, and an MCP package on npm without a handshake.
On 14 Nov 2026 the public site at ebay.com scored 30 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, in Ora's E-commerce category. eBay is the global marketplace for new and used goods, selling in more than 190 markets, 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.
The score
| Layer | Points | Share | What the layer asks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 8 of 9 | 89% | Can agents find and recommend it |
| Access | 0 of 33 | 0% | Can agents read it |
| Usability | 16.33 of 68 | 24% | Can agents use it |
| Payments | 0 of 0 | none apply | Can agents pay |
| Total | 30 of 100 | 30% | Grade D |
The pay layer
Ora did not run the six payment checks against ebay.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 marketplace 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 x402 payment protocol support detected. 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 MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) support detected. 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 UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) signals detected. 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 ACP (Agentic Commerce Protocol) signals detected. No commerce signals detected - agent-payment protocols are optional for non-commerce sites |
The other layers, check by check
Every check Ora ran on ebay.com, grouped by layer, with the result, the points and what Ora recorded where its wording passes this site's gate.
Discovery: 8 of 9
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARD discovery | Fail | 0 of 1 | No /.well-known/ard.json, no same-site rel="ard" link, and no legacy /.well-known/ai-catalog.json |
| Developer resource discoverability | Pass | 4 of 4 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Brand name discoverability | Pass | 3 of 3 | ebay.com ranks #4 for "ebay" (searched your brand name alone: we could not read a product term from your site) |
| 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 33
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No sitemap found |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Not run | 0 of 2 | Could not test bot user agents |
| 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 | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| 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 |
| 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://ebay.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 found. Tried /docs/llms.txt, /api/llms.txt, /developers/llms.txt, /guides/llms.txt, /reference/llms.txt. This is a bonus check: it can add a point and never costs one. |
| 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 2 | 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 4 | No public API or documentation page linked from homepage |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use | Fail | 0 of 1 | No agent instruction file with when-to-use guidance found |
| Skills.sh skill quality | Pass | 2 of 2 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| JSON-LD entity linking (sameAs) | Not run | 0 of 1 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| Metadata completeness | Not run | 0 of 1 | Could not fetch homepage |
| Organization schema completeness | Not run | 0 of 1 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| Trust anchor pages | Fail | 0 of 1 | No trust anchor pages found with sufficient content (About, Contact, Privacy) |
| OpenAPI spec published | Fail | 0 of 8 | No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found |
| Developer portal | Fail | 0 of 5 | No developer portal found |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/api-catalog found (RFC 9727) |
| Markdown agent docs | Not run | 0 of 1 | Could not fetch with Accept: text/markdown |
| Markdown content negotiation (acceptmarkdown.com) | Fail | 0 of 1 | Could not probe both Accept: text/markdown and Accept: text/html on the homepage https://ebay.com |
| Bot-UA markdown serving | Fail | 0 of 1 | No probed bot User-Agent (ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User) receives markdown when requesting HTML. Optional: detect AI-bot UAs server-side and serve them a markdown representation directly. |
Usability: 16.33 of 68
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public API with reachable endpoints | Pass | 8 of 8 | GraphQL endpoint at https://api.ebay.com/graphql is reachable; introspection requires authentication (API key / OAuth), which is expected for agent access. Best-of-protocols score: 7/7. |
| OAuth 2.0 support | Fail | 0 of 5 | No OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect support detected |
| Scoped permissions | Fail | 0 of 5 | No declared OAuth scopes, security schemes, or scoped-permission documentation found |
| 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: ebay.com, api.ebay.com. |
| Agent auth WWW-Authenticate hint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=... found. Probed [https://ebay.com/api, https://ebay.com/api/v1, https://ebay.com/v1, https://ebay.com/v2, https://ebay.com/agent/identity, https://ebay.com/agent/auth |
| 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 | Partial | 8.33 of 10 | First-party MCP server published by product org (npm, @ebay/npm-public-api-mcp, 7528 score). Add live handshake at /.well-known/mcp for full credit. |
| WebMCP support | Fail | 0 of 8 | No WebMCP support detected - 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 3 | API does not return JSON error responses (or no API detected) |
| CLI tool available | Fail | 0 of 3 | No CLI tool found |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No response from /ask endpoint |
| NLWeb streaming support | Fail | 0 of 1 | No response from /ask endpoint for streaming request |
| MCP server-card.json | Fail | 0 of 2 | No MCP server card found (checked /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json, the site's ai-catalog.json, servers[].card in mcp.json, and <server>/server-card) |
| 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 | Not run | 0 of 2 | Not run, no detail recorded. |
| 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 eBay.
- OpenAPI spec published
- Fail, 0 of 8, about 8.1 points to gain. Ora saw:
No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found
. - WebMCP support
- Fail, 0 of 8, about 5.2 points to gain. Ora saw:
No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found
. - Developer portal
- Fail, 0 of 5, about 5.1 points to gain. Ora saw:
No developer portal found
. - Public API/docs linked from homepage
- Fail, 0 of 4, about 4 points to gain. Ora saw:
No public API or documentation page linked from homepage
. - OAuth 2.0 support
- Fail, 0 of 5, about 3.3 points to gain. Ora saw:
No OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect support detected
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Our read
eBay's read never got past the door, though not because the door was shut: Ora's request for the home page got no page back, the agent user agents could not be tested and robots.txt could not be fetched, so the door, content, policy and structured-data rows are unverified rather than failed, and the Access layer reads 0 of 45. Ora found no commerce signals on a marketplace with more than a billion live listings, so the six payment checks did not apply on this read. What it did find is on the act layer: a first-party MCP package on npm, @ebay/npm-public-api-mcp, credited without a live handshake, and a GraphQL endpoint at api.ebay.com with introspection gated. It found neither an OpenAPI specification nor OAuth discovery, neither a developer portal nor declared scopes, and neither a sitemap nor an llms.txt. The domain ranks fourth for its own name and matched a Wikidata item without a Wikipedia article. A second scan decides whether the 30 is the site or the day.
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/ebay.com, Ora's scan (vendor), read 14 Nov 2026
- Ora's scoring rules, version 3 (vendor), read 14 Nov 2026
- Ora check catalog (GET /api/checks), read 14 Nov 2026
- ebay.com, the company's site, read 14 Nov 2026
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