Stripe
Last scanned docs.stripe.comCustom platform15 pages tested
AI agents can use most of these docs. A few fixes would make them reliable. Stripe scores 86 out of 100 (grade B), passing 17 of 27 checks. 10 still need work.
Developer docs
Kind of site
17/27
Checks passed
3
Partly passed
7
Failed
Access
Content discoverability3 passed1 failed3 partly
Markdown pages point agents to llms.txt
No llms.txt directive found in markdown of any of 15 sampled pages
No llms.txt directive was detected in the markdown of any tested page. Add a blockquote near the top of each markdown page (e.g., "> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt)").
Check your fix: The Markdown version of https://docs.stripe.com/acceptable-verification-documents (its .md URL, or the page fetched with
Accept: text/markdown) has the llms.txt line in its first few lines.llms.txt follows the standard structure
llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't fully follow the proposed structure: https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt: No blockquote summary found
Your llms.txt contains parseable links but doesn't follow the standard structure. Add an H1 title as the first line and a blockquote summary (lines starting with >) to improve agent parsing.
Check your fix: llms.txt starts with a
# Title, then a> summaryline, then##sections of links.llms.txt fits in an agent's context
llms.txt is 92,435 characters (between 50,000 and 100,000; consider splitting)
Your llms.txt is 92,435 characters, which may be truncated on some agent platforms. If it grows further, split into nested llms.txt files with a root index under 50,000 characters.
Check your fix:
curl -s https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt | wc -cprints less than 50000.Pages point agents to llms.txt
llms.txt directive found in HTML of 15 of 15 sampled pages, but buried deep in the page (past 50%)
An llms.txt directive was found in the HTML of some pages but is missing from others, or is buried deep in the page. Ensure the directive appears near the top of every documentation page.
Check your fix:
curl -s https://docs.stripe.com/acceptable-verification-documents | grep -n llms.txtfinds the link near the top of the HTML.llms.txt exists
llms.txt found at 2 locations; using https://docs.stripe.com/llms.txt as canonical
llms.txt links work
All 15 same-origin sampled links resolve (482 total links)
llms.txt links point to Markdown
15/15 same-origin sampled links point to markdown content (100%) (8 external links excluded)
Markdown availability2 passed
Pages are available as Markdown
15/15 sampled pages support .md URLs (100%)
Server returns Markdown when asked
15/15 sampled pages support content negotiation (100%)
Page size and truncation3 passed1 failed
Content starts near the top
3 of 15 sampled pages have content starting past 50% (worst 58%)
3 of 15 pages have content starting past 50% of the converted output. Agents may never see the documentation content. Reduce navigation, breadcrumb, and sidebar markup that precedes the content area.
Content is in the HTML without JavaScript
All 15 sampled pages contain server-rendered content
Markdown pages fit in context
All 15 pages under 50K chars (median 7K, max 39K)
HTML pages fit in context
All 15 sampled pages under 50K chars (median 476K HTML → 10K markdown (97% boilerplate))
Content structure3 passed
Tabs don't bloat the page
2 tab group(s) across 2 of 15 sampled pages; all serialize under 50K chars
Headings inside tabs name their variant
1 page(s) with tab headers checked; headers include variant context
Code blocks are well-formed
All 4 code fences properly closed across 17 pages
URL stability2 passed
Missing pages return a real 404
All 15 sampled pages return proper error codes for bad URLs
Redirects stay on the same host
No redirects detected across 15 sampled pages
Content health3 failed
llms.txt covers the whole site
llms.txt covers 471/4515 sitemap doc pages (10%); 4044 missing; 1 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap)
Your llms.txt covers 10% of your site's pages (below 80% threshold). 4044 live pages are missing from the index. If unintentional, regenerate llms.txt from your sitemap or build pipeline. If intentional, lower the threshold or set it to 0 to make the check informational.
Markdown matches the HTML page
4 of 15 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 22% missing)
4 pages have substantive content differences between markdown and HTML (avg 22% missing). If unintentional, agents are getting outdated content; regenerate markdown from source or fix the build pipeline.
Cache headers allow timely updates
17 of 17 endpoints have aggressive caching or missing cache headers
17 endpoints have aggressive caching (>24h) or missing cache headers. Set max-age under 3600 or add must-revalidate with ETag/Last-Modified so content updates reach agents promptly.
Authentication and access1 passed
Gated docs offer another way in
All docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths needed
Docs are readable without logging in
All 15 sampled pages are publicly accessible
Crawler access2 passed
Crawlers and AI assistants may read the docs
robots.txt lets Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User read the docs.
Sitemap lists the docs pages
The sitemap at https://docs.stripe.com/sitemap.xml lists 562 of the 564 docs pages found through llms.txt and page links.
Freshness
Maintenance1 passed2 failed
Pages say when they were last changed
1 of 15 sampled pages state when they were last changed.
Publish a last-modified date on every page: as article:modified_time or dateModified in the page, a visible "Last updated" line, or a Last-Modified header. Agents can then tell how current a page is; the date itself is not judged.
Check your fix:
curl -sI https://docs.stripe.com/acceptable-verification-documents | grep -i last-modifiedreturns a date, or the page carriesarticle:modified_timeor a visible "Last updated" line.Links and section anchors work
7 of 59 references checked on the sampled pages are broken: 0 links and 7 section anchors. 1 more could not be verified (timeouts or blocked requests) and is not counted.
Fix or remove the broken links, redirect moved pages to their new address, and restore or retarget section anchors. Agents follow links to gather context, and a dead link ends that path.
Check your fix: Every link on https://docs.stripe.com/api#customers (no such section) linked from https://docs.stripe.com/api/tokens returns 200, and every
#sectionlink points at an element with that id.Sitemap entries still exist
All 10 sitemap entries sampled still exist.
Consistency with the API specNot applicable
Endpoints in the docs exist in the API spec
No OpenAPI description was found, so the docs could not be compared with a spec.
CurrencyNot applicable
Deprecated operations are marked as such
No OpenAPI description was found, so deprecation notices could not be compared with a spec.
Additional checks
Not part of the score: optional extras that help agents use your docs.
MCP server is discoverable
An MCP server answers at https://mcp.stripe.com/; agents need to sign in to use it.
llms-full.txt is available
No llms-full.txt found at https://docs.stripe.com/llms-full.txt.
Publish /llms-full.txt with the full text of your docs in Markdown, so an agent can load everything in one request instead of crawling page by page.
Check your fix:
curl -sI https://docs.stripe.com/llms-full.txtreturns 200.Agent skills are published
10 agent skills published at https://docs.stripe.com/.well-known/skills/index.json.
About this scan
- Scanned
- Oct 12, 2026
- Pages tested
- 15 of 474 found
- Platform
- Unknown
- Kind of site
- Developer docs
- AFDocs score, on its own
- 86 (B), 14 of 23 checks pass
- Based on 15 sampled pages, chosen deterministically from the sitemap and llms.txt. Pages outside the sample were not read.
- Pages were fetched without running JavaScript, the way most AI agents read the web.
- robots.txt stopped the scanner from reading 1 URL; checks that needed them are unverified.
- Answerability, where an AI agent answers real questions written from these pages, runs in the open-source scanner with your own API key. This web score is made of Access and Freshness.
Methodology 2026-09.6 · AFDocs 0.20.0
Pages we sampled (15)
- https://docs.stripe.com/acceptable-verification-documents
- https://docs.stripe.com/api/tokens
- https://docs.stripe.com/capital/connect-integration
- https://docs.stripe.com/connect/custom-accounts
- https://docs.stripe.com/crypto/onramp/embedded-components
- https://docs.stripe.com/financial-connections/connect-payouts
- https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/dashboard/credit-notes
- https://docs.stripe.com/issuing/commercial-compliance
- https://docs.stripe.com/payments/bank-redirects
- https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/upsells
- https://docs.stripe.com/payments/payment-methods
- https://docs.stripe.com/radar/testing
- https://docs.stripe.com/sandboxes
- https://docs.stripe.com/tax/supported-countries
- https://docs.stripe.com/testing/wallets
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