360 check, 9 Nov 2026
Temu on the pay layer: the 360 agent-readiness check
Temu scores 47 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, read 14 Nov 2026. The six payment checks did not apply to temu.com on this read, which is how Ora treats a site it does not read as a shop. Four characters of home page, and a pay layer with nothing to find.
On 14 Nov 2026 the public site at temu.com scored 47 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, a D, in Ora's E-commerce category. Temu is the cross-border marketplace of PDD Holdings, selling low-priced goods to the West, 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 | 9 of 10 | 90% | Can agents find and recommend it |
| Access | 14.17 of 26 | 55% | Can agents read it |
| Usability | 4 of 17 | 24% | Can agents use it |
| Payments | 0 of 0 | none apply | Can agents pay |
| Total | 47 of 100 | 47% | Grade D |
The pay layer
Ora did not run the six payment checks against temu.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 working way for an agent to pay was found, so payments are not scored |
| MPP | Does not apply | 0 of 2 | MPP in the matrix | No MPP (Machine Payments Protocol) support detected. No working way for an agent to pay was found, so payments are not scored |
| UCP | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | UCP in the matrix | no UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) signals detected. No working way for an agent to pay was found, so payments are not scored |
| ACP | Does not apply | 0 of 3 | ACP in the matrix | no ACP (Agentic Commerce Protocol) signals detected. No working way for an agent to pay was found, so payments are not scored |
The other layers, check by check
Every check Ora ran on temu.com, grouped by layer, with the result, the points and what Ora recorded where its wording passes this site's gate.
Discovery: 9 of 10
| 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 | temu.com ranks #2 for "temu Clothing" and #2 for "temu Electronics" |
| robots.txt AI crawler policy | Pass | 1 of 1 | AI search crawlers: allowed in 3 of 3 checks (3 crawlers on 1 page). AI training crawlers: allowed in 2 of 2 checks (2 crawlers on 1 page), not scored. |
| 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 |
| Homepage not hidden from search | Pass | 1 of 1 | No noindex on the homepage: no robots, googlebot or bingbot meta tag and no X-Robots-Tag header hides it from search. |
Access: 14.17 of 26
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No sitemap found |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 1.67 of 5 | Homepage: 901 chars of readable text, but no H1 tag. Sampled pages with almost no text without JavaScript (4 of 5): https://www.temu.com/-supplies-o3-202.html (67 chars) |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 | Site accessible to 4 agent user-agents (ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot). |
| 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 (100 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 schemamap: directive in robots.txt |
| 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://temu.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. |
| robots.txt agent-user policy | Pass | 1 of 1 | No applicable crawl or usage restriction found for 3 user-triggered agents (chatgpt-user, claude-user, perplexity-user) on 1 public page: https://temu.com/. Declared policy only |
| llms.txt exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No llms.txt found at https://temu.com/llms.txt. Publish it at the site root, where agents that follow the llms.txt spec look for it. |
| llms.txt formatting | Fail | 0 of 2 | No llms.txt found to evaluate quality |
| JSON-LD structured data | Pass | 2 of 2 | Rich JSON-LD identity: Organization with name, description, url, and sameAs/logo/address (3 block(s)) |
| Pricing info accessible | Fail | 0 of 3 | No pricing page or pricing data found |
| Agent instruction / when-to-use | Fail | 0 of 1 | 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) | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Metadata completeness | Pass | 1 of 1 | All metadata signals present: canonical URL, lang="en", og:image, og:type |
| Organization schema completeness | Partial | 0.5 of 1 | Organization schema found but missing: contactPoint |
| Trust anchor pages | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Markdown alternate link | Fail | 0 of 1 | No sampled page advertises a markdown alternate. Add <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="..."> (or the equivalent Link response header) pointing at a markdown twin of the page. |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 | All 6 measured pages fit an agent context budget (largest ~1K tokens) |
| Content starts near the top | Pass | 1 of 1 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Content behind auth | Pass | 1 of 1 | All 5 sampled pages are publicly readable (1 with substantive content) |
| 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://temu.com does not meet the Markdown negotiation requirements: Accept: text/markdown returned text/html; charset=utf-8; Vary header missing Accept (got "accept-encoding, user-agent") |
| 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. |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 1 of 1 | Reachable to every agent we tested - ChatGPT-User: reachable, OAI-SearchBot: reachable, Claude-User: reachable, PerplexityBot: reachable |
Usability: 4 of 17
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Bot Auth directory | Fail | 0 of 2 | No /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory found |
| 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: temu.com, api.temu.com. |
| Agent auth WWW-Authenticate hint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=... found. Probed [https://temu.com/api, https://temu.com/api/v1, https://temu.com/v1, https://temu.com/v2, https://temu.com/agent/identity, https://temu.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 |
| WebMCP support | Fail | 0 of 8 | No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found |
| JSON error responses | Pass | 3 of 3 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| NLWeb /ask endpoint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No NLWeb-conformant /ask endpoint found via GET or POST |
| NLWeb streaming support | Fail | 0 of 1 | NLWeb /ask does not support SSE streaming via GET or POST |
| 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. |
| Agent-friendly 404s | Partial | 1 of 2 | The nonexistent path https://temu.com/__ora-404-probe-y03508bn correctly returns HTTP 404. Partial credit: no Markdown error body was detected. |
| Native interactive controls | Pass | 3 of 3 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Accessible names on controls | Pass | 2 of 2 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Form control labeling | Pass | 2 of 2 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| Accessibility-tree injection safety (bonus) | Pass | 2 of 2 | Pass, no detail recorded. |
| MCP Apps support | Fail | 0 of 4 | No MCP Apps support detected - this product has an in-agent UI surface but exposes no ui:// resources or tool UI metadata for agents to render. |
| A2UI / generative UI support | Fail | 0 of 2 | No A2UI or generative UI support detected |
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 Temu.
- WebMCP support
- Fail, 0 of 8, about 17.8 points to gain. Ora saw:
No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found
. - MCP Apps support
- Fail, 0 of 4, about 8.9 points to gain. Ora saw:
No MCP Apps support detected - this product has an in-agent UI surface but exposes no ui:// resources or tool UI metadata for agents to render
. - Product + docs MCP coverage
- Fail, 0 of 2, about 4.4 points to gain. Ora saw:
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
. - Content without JavaScript
- Partial, 1.67 of 5, about 4.3 points to gain. Ora saw:
Homepage: 901 chars of readable text, but no H1 tag. Sampled pages with almost no text without JavaScript (4 of 5): https://www.temu.com/-supplies-o3-202.html (67 chars), https://www.temu.com/business--science-o3-259.html (62 chars)
. - Pricing info accessible
- Fail, 0 of 3, about 3.8 points to gain. Ora saw:
No pricing page or pricing data found
.
Our read
Temu gives an agent four characters of text. Ninety-nine percent of the home page is script, so the content row fails outright, and the six payment checks were probed on a site Ora reads as a shop and found no protocol, which leaves the pay layer at 0 of 0 for the fastest-growing marketplace in the West. The door is open to all four agent user agents and robots.txt allows the search and training crawlers, which is the good news; Ora found neither a publicly reachable API nor an OpenAPI specification, neither an MCP server nor a sitemap, and neither an llms.txt nor JSON-LD, while OAuth is mentioned on the home page without standard endpoints. The Discovery layer reads 13 of 14 because the brand is known, with the domain fifth for its own name. This is a shop that sells through its own app and page and has left nothing an outside agent could read, let alone pay through. The text comes first.
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/temu.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
- temu.com, the company's site, read 14 Nov 2026
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