ai.arcreport/ask · v2026.10.8 · agents-and-memory
ARC: open benchmark of whether AI agents can buy is healthy: it completed an MCP handshake in 3565 ms and exposes 16 tools. It scores 59/100.
Free MCP for ARC's agent-commerce benchmark: read stores and protocols; submit stores or agent runs.
Endpoint: https://www.arcreport.ai/api/ask (streamable-http)
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| health | 17 / 25 |
| authEase | 15 / 15 |
| toolQuality | 15 / 15 |
| maintenance | 7 / 15 |
| adoption | 0 / 10 |
| usage | 0 / 10 |
| security | 5 / 10 |
Scoring v0.3, computed 2026-10-14T14:16:22.083Z.
| Checked (UTC) | Status | Latency | Error |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14T08:59:38.258Z | Healthy | 3565 |
ask_arc | Read the public ARC Index with no login. Given a brand, a product or store URL, or a category (running shoes, leggings, footwear), return whether agents can reach checkout, the score, rivals Grok named when a real read exists, evidence receipts, and both buy lanes. buy.agent_catalog is a live HTTP c |
can_agent_checkout | Can an AI agent buy from this store or check out on this Shopify store? Free real HTTP check of any public homepage or product URL: agent catalog, product, checkout link, UCP profile, Checkout WebMCP (Shopify-only checkoutWebmcp: status, nullable detected, tools, reason; buyer approval required), Sh |
precheck | Free pre-checkout read for a product or store URL. Uses ARC's saved directory, rails, store answers and check history only. Does not fetch the store and does not start a scan. EachSpy, OpenStreetMap and opted-out hosts come back as unknown. JSON: GET /api/precheck?url=. |
find_agent_ready_stores | Find stores where an AI agent can complete checkout for running shoes, beauty, clothing, home goods, or another product need. Reads ARC's directory of real HTTP agent-catalog checks. Returns only stores checked within thirty days whose catalog found a product and returned a checkout link. No purchas |
agent_commerce_adoption | Read ARC's agent commerce adoption counts, category and commerce platform rates from saved HTTP checks, including Checkout WebMCP among measured Shopify checkouts, with unknown and not checked separate; buyer approval required. Curated sample, not all e-commerce. No store requests or model calls. |
product_data_check | Free latest saved product data and return/shipping policy check from the store's pages and structured data. Reads history only; no store fetch or model call. A missing result is not a zero. |
google_checkout_readiness | Read saved public Google agentic checkout readiness checks for a store. Free; no new scan or paid calls. Merchant Center feed eligibility cannot be checked from outside. Not Google approval or certification. |
get_agent_facts | Read free ARC agent facts for a store or product with no login. Returns TypeSafe Jev typed decisions (use-case mention, price clarity, agent-friendly description, cart-blocker suspicion, readiness score) from an HTTP scrape. Not a browser session and not any third-party agent product; ARC's browser |
list_category_agent_facts | List free ARC agent facts by category (beauty, footwear, apparel, …) with no login. Ranked by newest real Jev scores. JSON: GET /api/agent-facts?category=beauty |
dataset_info | Latest open ARC dataset snapshot (start with store_answers: one plain answer per store on whether AI agents can find products and get a checkout link): immutable versioned download URLs plus latest/ aliases (CSV and Parquet), row counts, method version and licence (CC-BY-4.0, attribution ARC, arcrep |
protocol_matrix | Read ARC's neutral Protocol Matrix: for UCP, ACP, PAP, WebMCP, MCP and agent payment protocols, how many checked stores declare, validate, answer and transact, with evidence labels (Measured / Inferred / Not measured). Saved checks only; no store requests or model calls. CC-BY-4.0. |
agent_leaderboard | Read ARC's open agent leaderboard: cart success over the fixed ARC-100 v1 test set for each agent path ARC measures (ARC browser shoppers A-E, the UCP path, the storefront MCP path), with n, dates, evidence labels and Wilson 95% intervals, plus unverified outside submissions. Saved results only; no |
submit_leaderboard_run | Submit your agent's run against ARC-100 v1 to ARC's open leaderboard. Free. The run is listed as 'unverified' until ARC re-runs a sample. Format: arc-leaderboard-submission/v1 (see /leaderboard/spec). Runs must stop before payment. Limit 5 per network per day. Same as POST /api/leaderboard/submit. |
submit_store | Add stores to ARC's free, open agent-commerce directory (CC-BY dataset). Pass url for one store or hosts for up to 50. Each new host is validated (live HTTPS, not parked, not redirecting to another brand); accepted hosts are queued for ARC's plain-HTTP rails checks (UCP, WebMCP, MCP, policies, produ |
store_card | Read a public store card and saved brand claim. No outbound fetch or model calls. Brand statements are from the brand and not measured by ARC; claims never change scores. |
validate_ucp_profile | Validate a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) business profile against the published UCP JSON Schema (current release) and spec rules: authority binding, https endpoints, orphaned extensions and, for a URL, hosting headers (no redirects, Cache-Control public max-age>=60). Pass url (store host, homepa |