Why agent-readiness should be measured, not asserted

Agent-readiness is a property you can measure, so it should be measured rather than claimed. A checklist that a team fills in by hand records intentions. An independent scanner records what an agent actually finds when it reads the site, and those two often disagree. The difference shows up the moment something changes. A header gets dropped in a deploy, or a manifest starts returning the wrong content type. A self-assessment still reads as done, because nobody re-ticked the box. A scan reads…