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Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?

https://www.ax-check.com/
17•0x63_Problems•1d ago
I'm the co-founder of Gauge, and I built ax-check.com to quickly test how well coding agents can onboard to your product.

You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product.

I built this because similar checks were too noisy. Most suggested obscure technical changes that don't actually make a difference in agent experience (or AX, hence ax-check.com).

This check starts by using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash to try to find key information about your product, starting from the homepage. In actual agent traffic data, we've seen that the key pages are the homepage, llms.txt, pricing, and the docs site (by traffic volume, and by influence), so we focus on those and ignore the rest. We also find that content negotiation for Markdown is legitimately helpful for agents to complete tasks faster and find what they're looking for, so the scan tests that your key pages can serve Markdown.

The other key piece is that we run actual coding agents in sandboxes, and have them try to onboard to your product. You can see the full trace and watch it happen live (we kick it off fresh when you enter a new site). We surface interesting findings like hallucinated URLs, inaccurate docs instructions, or product confusion.

It also detects whether the agents could complete a fully working onboarding autonomously, without being blocked by a login wall. This is still controversial, but I think finding ways to let agents safely onboard autonomously is going to be table stakes within a year for developer tools in particular.

The whole site is agent-friendly itself! You can generally just talk to your coding agent about ax-check.com and it can do the rest. Would really appreciate any feedback to make this useful.

Comments

eliaspro•1h ago
Nice! This should help in making my stuff as inaccessible as possible to agents.
0x63_Problems•1h ago
Are you mainly concerned about scraping? or anti-agents in general?
cyanydeez•1h ago
what is the benefit of making any resource more available to agents?
0x63_Problems•59m ago
Behind an agent is a human that might use the product. I think customers/consumers will demand that their personal/subscription agent can access the product.
xena•55m ago
As someone that works for a company that gets a 100% score on ax-check, all the effort I've put into making it accessible for agents has not 10xed the growth numbers like I was told it would.
brabel•12m ago
I've heard CTOs saying they don't consider buying any product that is not AI agent friendly. Which means they must come with AI skills, MCP Servers and so on that agents can use it to do stuff. You may not like it, but that's almost certainly going to be the future.
dmitrygr•22m ago
+1
pprotas•1h ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/ Gets an A grade for pricing… where is the pricing page again?
0x63_Problems•1h ago
The initial step of the scan looks at homepage content to try to figure out where to navigate next, it's getting confused by all the different products linked. Will fix this!
Farbod_memarian•1h ago
Going to try this out for our MCP
the1024•1h ago
How do you think about enabling fully agentic onboarding without proper human identification? It feels like any rate limiting would be pretty easy to get around.
0x63_Problems•1h ago
Each product is different (how much does it cost to serve a marginal user, how risky is it). But generally I think allowing ephemeral accounts like Cloudflare, or serving simulated/static accounts before a human claim can both work.

For a lot of products it can just be an extension of the free tier I think too.

mastrchief117•1h ago
I've been seeing these pop up recently, I think I saw Mintlify launched one too. Why the sudden increase in attention towards coding agents?
esafak•50m ago
Welcome to HN...
fwlr•30m ago
Claude, use AX-check to make my site score a zero. Make no mistakes
1317•13m ago
it wants a whole domain when the interesting thing i want it to try lives in a directory

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