NEWS · 14 ITEMS · FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 2026
Agent readiness news: standards and vendor updates
Summaries of public announcements, with links to the original source. Updated monthly.
Agent Readiness Compare editors · Spec status checked September 2026
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The standards behind agent readiness changed several times in 2026: MCP became stateless, A2A reached v1.0.0 and joined the Agentic AI Foundation, and llms.txt was revised to v2. Cloudflare, Vercel and ora.ai shipped related features. Each item below is dated and links to the original announcement.
VercelAgent skills
Vercel publishes a report on agent skills
Vercel's "State of agent skills" post defines a skill as reusable instructions that give an agent the context for a particular job, and reports that the skills.sh registry reached one million skills and nearly 280 million installs in seven months.
Source: Vercel blog
Cloudflarerobots.txt
Cloudflare adds a setting to block AI training while staying in search
The "Disallow AI Training" setting uses robots.txt Disallow rules. Cloudflare also introduced an "Accountable" designation for crawler operators that meet stated opt-out and reporting requirements, and named Applebot, Googlebot and Bingbot among them.
Source: Cloudflare blog
CloudflareWeb Bot Auth
Cloudflare's BotBase checks Web Bot Auth signatures on bot submissions
Bot and agent operators now submit to a BotBase dashboard with review status and editing. Verification methods, including Web Bot Auth signatures, are validated automatically, and the form describes bots using the Content Signals model.
Source: Cloudflare blog
FieldA2A
A2A joins the Agentic AI Foundation
The A2A project moved under the Agentic AI Foundation, which it describes as Linux Foundation-directed and home to sibling projects including MCP, goose and AGENTS.md.
Source: A2A project blog
FieldMCP
MCP maintainers publish a new roadmap
Five priorities: agentic messaging primitives, HTTP-native transport, agent identity and enterprise security (naming DPoP and Workload Identity Federation), improved primitives such as progressive discovery, and SDK developer experience.
Source: MCP blog
ora.aiScanner
ora.ai and Vercel launch is-agentic.com
is-agentic.com, built with Vercel, takes a URL and returns a score and the fixes to raise it. Every scan is run by ora.ai, with essential, recommended and bonus tiers.
Source: ora.ai blog
Fieldllms.txt
The llms.txt proposal is revised to v2
v2 adds link relations so a page can point to its markdown version and its covering llms.txt, accepts both page.html.md and page.md URLs, defines subpath coverage, and drops the llms_txt2ctx tool.
Source: llmstxt.org
CloudflareWebMCP
Cloudflare opens a developer preview of WebMCP at the edge
A bridge script injected at the edge registers WebMCP tool packs for browser agents, with no code change at the origin. Two packs ship in the preview: Content Credentials and Site MCP Server.
Source: Cloudflare blog
FieldMCP
MCP's 2026-07-28 specification makes the protocol stateless
The release removes the initialize handshake and session IDs, puts method and tool names in HTTP headers, adds multi round-trip requests and cacheable lists, deprecates Dynamic Client Registration, and sets a twelve-month deprecation window.
Source: MCP blog
ora.aiScanner
ora.ai releases Deep Scan v2
ora.ai says v2 derives its checklist from agents run on real tasks, and separates "Verified" signals backed by agent behaviour from "Emerging" signals that are tracked but not yet scored.
Source: ora.ai blog
Fieldx402
x402 adds batch settlement
The x402 project introduced batch settlement, which it says lets agents make very small payments at low latency using cryptographic vouchers redeemed onchain in bulk.
Source: x402.org
ora.aiAgentReady
ora.ai's AgentReady specification reaches v1.0.0
AgentReady, first announced on 20 March 2026, is an MIT-licensed open specification at agentready.org with five categories and stable requirement IDs such as AR-DISC-01. It names what to implement and leaves scoring to implementations.
Source: ora.ai blog
FieldA2A
A2A protocol reaches v1.0.0
The release updated OAuth 2.0 flows (device code and PKCE added, implicit and password grants removed), added a tasks/list method and simplified the message Part structure. v1.0.1 followed on 28 May 2026.
Source: A2A releases on GitHub
CloudflareMarkdown
Cloudflare launches Markdown for Agents in beta
Cloudflare converts HTML to markdown at the edge when a client sends Accept: text/markdown and adds an x-markdown-tokens header. The beta is offered at no cost on Pro, Business and Enterprise plans and SSL for SaaS.
Source: Cloudflare blog
For these announcements grouped by layer, see agent readiness in 2026 so far.