--- title: Faq description: Short answers about Waymark scores, layers, Pay, the API, MCP, and pricing. Opening a score URL does not start a scan. Waymark is free and independent. canonical: https://waymark.genedai.me/faq last-updated: 2026-09-27 --- # Faq Short answers about Waymark scores, layers, Pay, the API, MCP, and pricing. Opening a score URL does not start a scan. Waymark is free and independent. ### What is Waymark? Waymark is a public agent-readiness scanner. It scores a site on four layers — Find 20, Door 30, Tools 40, and Pay 10 — from the homepage, well-known files, and a short protocol probe. The number is the stored scan. An optional live journey never changes it. ### How does Waymark score a website? Layer percentages are points earned on checks that count, divided by the points those checks are worth. N/A and scanner errors drop out of that denominator. The four layer percentages are then combined by weight: Find 20, Door 30, Tools 40, Pay 10. A layer with nothing left to score drops out, and the others are renormalized. Warn scores 1 point when max is at least 2, and half the max otherwise. ### What do Find, Door, Tools, and Pay measure? Find is whether agents can discover the site (robots, sitemap, llms.txt). Door is whether the page is citable (title, JSON-LD, docs, markdown). Tools is whether agents can act (MCP, OpenAPI, honest errors). Pay is scored only when the homepage shows a cart phrase or a live payment rail. ### Does opening a score page start a scan? No. GET /score/{domain} and GET /api/score/{domain} only read a stored score. A missing domain is HTTP 404 and does not scan. POST /api/scan starts a scan. The homepage Scan button uses GET /api/scan/stream?force=1. ### What are the Waymark grade cutoffs? A+ is at least 95, A at least 86, B at least 70, C at least 48, D at least 28, otherwise F. A homepage scanner error caps the total at 47 and leaves the site off the public board. If the scored layer weight is under 50, the total is capped at 69.9. ### When does Pay count toward the total? Pay stays N/A unless the homepage shows "add to cart", "buy now", or "shopping cart", or a link path contains /cart, or a live rail answers (x402, UCP, ACP, or MPP). The words checkout or SKU alone do not turn Pay on. The Jev Pay shadow is not part of the grade. ### Is Waymark free? Yes. Waymark is free. There is one plan: public scans, public scores, and the public API. No paid tier and no checkout. Limits per IP are 20 scans per minute, 10 writes per minute, and 4 journeys per 10 minutes. ### How do I scan a site with Waymark? Submit the URL on the homepage, or POST JSON { "url": "https://example.com" } to /api/scan. Agents can POST JSON-RPC to /api/mcp and call scan_domain. The CLI is node scripts/waymark.mjs audit https://example.com. A stored scan is reused for 6 hours unless force is true. ### What user agent does Waymark use? Homepage and protocol fetches identify as Waymark/1.0 with an 8 second timeout. Live registry lookups use Waymark/1.0 (+https://waymark.genedai.workers.dev). ### Is Waymark affiliated with Ora? No. Waymark is an independent public scanner. Catalog ids, weights, and wording are Waymark’s. It is not Ora, Era Labs, or AgentReady. ### How should an agent cite a Waymark score? Cite the score page /score/{domain} or GET /api/score/{domain}. Grade, layer percents, and fixes match. The essentials sentence is the stored baselineScore, not a recompute. Neighbors are included only with competitors=1. Treat /methodology as the rules. ### Where is the Waymark MCP server? POST JSON-RPC to /api/mcp, protocol 2024-11-05. GET of that URL returns the JSON card, not an SSE stream. The card is also at /.well-known/mcp.json. scan_domain always runs a fresh scan and does not use the 6-hour POST /api/scan cache. - [Home](https://waymark.genedai.me/) - [Methodology](https://waymark.genedai.me/methodology) - [OpenAPI](https://waymark.genedai.me/openapi.json) - [llms.txt](https://waymark.genedai.me/llms.txt)