From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents

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Introduces Agent Readiness and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) tools within the Cloudflare dashboard. Agent Readiness provides diagnostics to check if a site is accessible and discoverable by AI agents, including checks for robots.txt, sitemaps, machine-readable content, and advanced integrations like OAuth discovery and agent-specific protocols. AEO measures how often a site is recommended by AI assistants by inferring industry, probing leading assistants (Claude, GPT) with prompts, and reporting metrics like Citation Rate, Prominence, Mention Rate, and Share of Voice. It also includes an AI Operator Activity view to track bot crawl and referral traffic.