Agent readiness · posthog.com
2026-08-12 10:28 UTC · formula v9.2 · 2.6s
You publish files for machines to read, but nothing that tells one how to become a customer.
None of the nine known agent entry paths answered, including /agent-signup.md and /.well-known/agent-access.json. Reading is solved on your site; joining is not.
- A · Discovery
- 4/4
- B · Agent entry
- 2/4
- C · Registration
- 0/1
- D · Provisioning
- 0/2
- E · Integration
- 1/2
of the 13 points that apply to you and we could measure · 4 of 17 were not scored
You 7 · category median 7.5 · best mixpanel.com 11 · 15 deterministic HTTP checks, published formula
Fix this first
This is the whole list: everything we could measure and you do not pass. Another 4 points sit behind checks we could not evaluate on your domain, and each of those lines below says what would make it measurable.
- 1Agent entry pointan afternoon · +2
Publish /agent-signup.md: the path from nothing to a working key, written as steps for a machine rather than a tour for a person. Ours is at /agent-signup.md if you want a worked example, and it says plainly that we have nothing to sign up for.
- 2Programmatic key provisioningan afternoon · +2
Document how a key is created without opening a dashboard: management API, service account or CLI. If no such path exists, that gap is the finding, not the docs.
- 3Machine-readable API descriptionan afternoon · +1
Publish an OpenAPI file at /openapi.json, or serve markdown when a client sends Accept: text/markdown. Either one stops agents guessing your API.
Then, when you have room
- Signup reachable without a browser a project · +1Let https://posthog.com/signup render its form in server HTML and stop refusing non-browser requests to it.
Take it with you
5 of the checks an agent depends on, posthog.com does not pass.
Send yourself the list above with the checks that cost the most, and a permanent link. Whoever owns the fix is usually not the person who ran the scan.
One email with the report, and one follow-up asking what you did with it. No newsletter, no sequence. Delete on request at hello@letagentsin.com.
None of this tells you whether an agent picked you
Everything above is a file an agent could read. Whether one actually chose you is a different measurement, and we have not run it on posthog.com. What we have run it on is a rich text editor vendor: six agents, one brief, six isolated copies of a real codebase. All six picked the same competitor, and the vendor being studied was never named, not even on a rejection list, while the runs named and dismissed ten alternatives between them. In an earlier round, run before we isolated the copies, it was named twice and struck off both times in four words: Fully commercial, licence key required. That study is about them, not about you. It is here because it is the difference between a file and a decision.
Against product analytics
You are 4 of 6 in a category where a developer is trying to find out what users actually do in the product.
- 1mixpanel.com11/14
- 2amplitude.com10/14
- 3usefathom.com8/14
- 4posthog.comyou7/13
- 5plausible.io7/16
- 6june.so3/15
Where competitors pass and posthog.com does not
- Machine-readable API descriptionmixpanel.com · amplitude.com · usefathom.com
- Signup reachable without a browserplausible.io
- Programmatic key provisioningmixpanel.com
Only domains we have actually scanned appear here, so the ranking is a floor: a competitor missing from the list has not been measured, not beaten.
By stage
Every check
Each line is one HTTP observation with a published rule, so you can rerun any of them yourself. Most are the same tomorrow if you are: the two that are not are the bot gate and the pricing page, which answer inconsistently on their own, which is why those run more than once and say so when the tries disagreed. PASS and PART are counted. UNMEASURED means we could not evaluate it, N/A means it does not apply to a product like yours, and neither is in the score or its denominator. See the formula
A · Discovery
- PASSAnswers an agent user-agentAnswered 200 to LetAgentsIn/1.0 (+https://letagentsin.com/methodology)
- PASSllms.txt publishedllms.txt present at https://posthog.com/llms.txt, and the 12 links we sampled across the file all answer
- UNMEASUREDDocs readable without JavaScriptUnmeasurable: https://docs.posthog.com returned nothing we could read
- PASSOn-demand agents not blockedNo on-demand agent is blocked
- N/APaths robots.txt points at answerrobots.txt names no concrete path, only patterns or nothing, so there is no claim to check
- PASSNo punishing crawl delayNo Crawl-delay applies to the agents we check
B · Agent entry
- FAILAgent entry pointNone of the 9 known agent entry paths returns a file rather than your page shellA markdown file written for a machine turns a guessing game into a procedure it can follow.
- PASSOAuth dynamic client registrationregistration_endpoint published, but none of the 3 advertised grants (authorization_code, refresh_token, urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer) finishes without a person at a browser
- PASSMCP surfaceLive MCP endpoint at https://mcp.posthog.com/mcp, answered 401 with an auth challenge
C · Registration
- UNMEASUREDNo CAPTCHA in the signup HTMLUnmeasurable: the signup form at https://posthog.com/signup 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.
- FAILSignup reachable without a browserhttps://posthog.com/signup is reachable, but its form needs JavaScriptIf a bare HTTP request gets a 403, the agent never sees the form at all.
D · Provisioning
- FAILProgrammatic key provisioningNone of the 7 provisioning phrases appears in the 2 documents we readDocumented key creation is the difference between a two-minute integration and a support ticket.
- UNMEASUREDFree tier or no-card trial stated in textUnmeasurable: https://posthog.com/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
- PASSTyped SDK on the registryposthog-js@1.415.7 ships types, matched from the registry by who publishes it rather than by a link on your site
- FAILMachine-readable API descriptionNo OpenAPI spec at the 5 usual paths, none declared by https://docs.posthog.com, and no markdown negotiationAn OpenAPI file or markdown negotiation lets an agent read your API instead of guessing it.Point at your spec from your docs page with rel="service-desc" and an agent finds it without guessing.
What we discovered on the way
- Docs
- https://docs.posthog.com · found on a subdomain
- Pricing
- https://posthog.com/pricing · guessed path
- Signup
- https://posthog.com/signup · guessed path
- npm package
- posthog-js (registry guess)
- GitHub
- not found
- Package licence
- (Apache-2.0 AND MIT)
- Crawl-delay
- none
- Content-Signal
- none
- Blocked on-demand agents
- none
Your package declares (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) rather than a plain licence identifier. We do not score this, because a commercial licence is a business model, not a defect. We report it because in six agent runs on a comparable decision, every model that hit a licence key requirement dropped that vendor in one line, without opening the product. What the runs showed