360 check, 15 Nov 2026
Zara on the pay layer: the 360 agent-readiness check
Zara scores 8 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, an F, read 15 Nov 2026. The six payment checks did not apply to zara.com on this read, which is how Ora treats a site it does not read as a shop. A WAF challenges every agent, and the payment checks did not apply on this read.
On 15 Nov 2026 the public site at zara.com scored 8 of 100 on Ora's agent-readiness scan, an F, in Ora's Consumer category. Zara is the flagship brand of Inditex, selling online in more than 200 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. Ora's one-line summary: Turns agents away at the door: a WAF blocks them and the homepage shows no content without JavaScript.
The score
| Layer | Points | Share | What the layer asks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery | 1 of 9 | 11% | Can agents find and recommend it |
| Access | 0 of 39 | 0% | Can agents read it |
| Usability | 8 of 66 | 12% | Can agents use it |
| Payments | 0 of 0 | none apply | Can agents pay |
| Total | 8 of 100 | 8% | Grade F |
The pay layer
Ora did not run the six payment checks against zara.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 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 zara.com, grouped by layer, with the result, the points and what Ora recorded where its wording passes this site's gate.
Discovery: 1 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 | Fail | 0 of 4 | In a search for your API docs, none of the 10 results is your official docs |
| Brand name discoverability | Partial | 1 of 3 | zara.com ranks #6 for "zara" (searched your brand name alone: we could not read a product term from your site) |
| NPM/PyPI SDK package | Fail | 0 of 1 | No NPM or PyPI SDK package found |
| 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 39
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 1 | No sitemap found |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 0 of 5 | Homepage blocked by WAF/security challenge - content not accessible to agents |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Partial | 0 of 2 | Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot. A challenge is an identity check that verified crawlers pass |
| 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 (32 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 | Partial | 0 of 1 | robots.txt blocked by WAF/bot protection - 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://zara.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 https://zara.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 | Partial | 0 of 2 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check structured data |
| Pricing info accessible | Fail | 0 of 3 | No pricing page or pricing data found |
| Public API/docs linked from homepage | Partial | 0 of 4 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check for docs links |
| 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) | Partial | 0 of 1 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check entity linking |
| Metadata completeness | Partial | 0 of 1 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check metadata |
| Organization schema completeness | Partial | 0 of 1 | Homepage blocked by WAF - cannot check Organization schema |
| 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 | 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://zara.com does not meet the Markdown negotiation requirements: Accept: text/markdown returned text/html; Vary header missing Accept (got "none") |
| Agent crawler reachability | Partial | 0 of 1 | Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot - a challenge is an identity check verified crawlers pass, so reachability is undetermined rather than blocked (ChatGPT-User: challenged |
Usability: 8 of 66
| Check | Result | Points | What Ora saw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public API with reachable endpoints | Pass | 8 of 8 | GraphQL endpoint at https://zara.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: zara.com, api.zara.com. |
| Agent auth WWW-Authenticate hint | Fail | 0 of 1 | No 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata=... found. Probed [https://zara.com/api, https://zara.com/api/v1, https://zara.com/v1, https://zara.com/v2, https://zara.com/agent/identity, https://zara.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 | Fail | 0 of 10 | No MCP server or manifest found |
| 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 | 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 (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 |
| 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 Zara.
- Developer resource discoverability
- Fail, 0 of 4, about 9.9 points to gain. Ora saw:
In a search for your API docs, none of the 10 results is your official docs
. - OpenAPI spec published
- Fail, 0 of 8, about 6.8 points to gain. Ora saw:
No OpenAPI/Swagger specification found
. - MCP server / manifest
- Fail, 0 of 10, about 6.7 points to gain. Ora saw:
No MCP server or manifest found
. - WebMCP support
- Fail, 0 of 8, about 5.4 points to gain. Ora saw:
No WebMCP support detected - no document.modelContext / navigator.modelContext usage found
. - Brand name discoverability
- Partial, 1 of 3, about 4.9 points to gain. Ora saw:
zara.com ranks #6 for "zara" (searched your brand name alone: we could not read a product term from your site)
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Our read
Zara's read never reaches the till. The payment checks did not apply on this read: Ora did not read the site as a shop. Bot management challenged ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User and PerplexityBot, and robots.txt answered with a 403 challenge, so the Access layer reads 0 of 39. Because the home page sat behind the WAF, the rows for content without JavaScript, JSON-LD, metadata and indexing directives are unverified rather than failed. Ora found neither a sitemap nor an llms.txt. The Usability layer reads 8 of 66. A GraphQL endpoint at zara.com/graphql is reachable with introspection behind authentication, and an NLWeb /ask endpoint answers 403; Ora found neither an OpenAPI specification nor an MCP server. The fix worth most is API documentation a search can find: none of 10 results was official, about 9.9 points. An F at 8: the GraphQL endpoint answers, and the home page asks every agent for papers.
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/zara.com, Ora's scan (vendor), read 15 Nov 2026
- Ora's scoring rules, version 3 (vendor), read 15 Nov 2026
- Ora check catalog (GET /api/checks), read 15 Nov 2026
- zara.com, the company's site, read 15 Nov 2026
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