Rankli AI Search Readiness

What Rankli AI Search Readiness does

The Rankli AI Search Readiness MCP server lets an MCP-compatible agent inspect a website's readiness for AI search crawlers. It focuses on whether crawlers associated with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity can reach the site and read the information needed to represent it.

The service returns an assessment of the supplied URL and ranks recommended fixes. This makes it useful for technical website reviews where the goal is to improve crawler access and the machine-readable presentation of a business or site.

How it works

The server is hosted remotely and uses the streamable HTTP transport. An MCP client sends a URL to the check_ai_search_readiness(url) tool. The check evaluates several access and content signals:

• Rules in robots.txt for the named AI crawlers
• Whether the site provides an llms.txt file
• Text rendered by the server
• Structured data available to crawlers

The response identifies issues found during the check and orders the resulting fixes by priority. The tool is read-only, so it evaluates the supplied site without providing operations to modify website content or configuration.

Setup and configuration

Connect an MCP client to the hosted endpoint:

https://ucvisoclchcinhgeyfkj.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp

For clients that support the claude mcp add command, the documented registration command is:

claude mcp add --transport http rankli https://ucvisoclchcinhgeyfkj.supabase.co/functions/v1/mcp

No API key is required. The official MCP Registry name is io.rankli.www/ai-search-readiness.

Tools and capabilities

The Rankli AI Search Readiness MCP server exposes one tool:

• check_ai_search_readiness(url): Performs a read-only readiness check for a website URL and returns ranked fixes based on crawler access, AI-oriented site files, rendered text, and structured data.

The tool is designed for diagnosis rather than content management. It does not indicate that it can submit changes, edit robots.txt, create llms.txt, or update structured data.

Limitations and notes

The check covers crawler reachability and readable site signals; it is not described as a general search-ranking audit. Its documented crawler scope is ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Results depend on the URL provided and on the publicly accessible responses the service can inspect.

Rankli also describes a broader product that checks whether AI answer engines name a business, identifies businesses named instead, and helps with citations. Those product capabilities are separate from the single MCP tool described here and should not be assumed to be exposed through this endpoint.

The Rankli AI Search Readiness MCP server is remote-only in the supplied setup information. No local server package, authentication configuration, write operation, or client-specific feature is documented.