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10 of 14 measurable points under formula 9.2, measured on 2026-08-12. 15 checks exist; each is one HTTP request with a published rule, so every sentence below can be rerun and argued with. 2 of them could not be measured from where we ask, and those are left out of the denominator rather than counted as failures.

A · Discovery

  • PASS
    Answers an agent user-agentAnswered 200 to LetAgentsIn/1.0 (+https://letagentsin.com/methodology)
  • PASS
    llms.txt publishedllms.txt present at https://www.elastic.co/docs/llms.txt, and the 12 links we sampled across the file all answer
  • PASS
    Docs readable without JavaScript26,821 characters of text without JS, on https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/beats/filebeat/beats-api-keys rather than on https://www.elastic.co/docs
  • PASS
    On-demand agents not blockedNo on-demand agent is blocked
  • N/A
    Paths robots.txt points at answerrobots.txt names no concrete path, only patterns or nothing, so there is no claim to check
  • PASS
    No punishing crawl delayNo Crawl-delay applies to the agents we check

B · Agent entry

  • FAIL
    Agent entry pointNone of the 9 known agent entry paths returns a file rather than your page shell
  • PASS
    OAuth dynamic client registrationregistration_endpoint published, and client_credentials is among the 11 advertised grants, so an unattended agent has a documented path to a token
  • FAIL
    MCP surfaceNo MCP surface: nothing answered at mcp.elastic.co, mcp.elastic.co/mcp, mcp.elastic.co/v1/mcp, api.elastic.co/mcp, /mcp or /api/mcp, and no file mentions MCP

C · Registration

  • UNMEASURED
    No CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLUnmeasurable: the signup form at https://cloud.elastic.co/registration is not in the server HTML, so its gates are not eitherServer-render the form, or tell us the endpoint it posts to, and the gates become visible to us and to an agent.
  • FAIL
    Signup reachable without a browserhttps://cloud.elastic.co/registration is reachable, but its form needs JavaScript

D · Provisioning

  • PASS
    Programmatic key provisioning2 of 7 provisioning phrases across the 5 documents we read: "create an api key (or api token, access token, personal access token, service account, auth token, secret key), next to something programmatic", "service account"
  • UNMEASURED
    Free tier or no-card trial stated in textUnmeasurable: https://www.elastic.co/pricing is larger than we read, so anything we did not find in it is a fact about our cap and not about your tiersNothing for you to do. A smaller pricing page, or one that states its tiers early, makes this measurable.

E · Integration

  • PASS
    Typed SDK on the registry@elastic/elasticsearch@9.5.0 ships types, matched from the registry by who publishes it rather than by a link on your site
  • PASS
    Machine-readable API descriptionDocs serve markdown to machines, at https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/api-keys

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