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X thread — Agent Readiness Report: Google

7 tweets. Tweet 1 leads with score + dominant theme + tags. NO link in tweet 1 (X throttles link-leading threads). Link lands in tweet 7. Tags @Google and @GoogleDevs on tweet 1.


Tweet 1 (240 chars)

@Google invented the Google-Extended user-agent in 2023. The AI-training opt-out the rest of the web’s robots.txt now references.

We checked four Google surfaces.

None of them use it.

Score: 25/100. Level 1. Highest of four.

@GoogleDevs


Tweet 2 (250 chars)

The variance: 25 / 15 / 5 / 5.

developers.google.com — 25/100, Level 1. The high water mark. cloud.google.com — 15/100, Level 1. google.com — 5/100, Level 0. blog.google — 5/100, Level 0.

developers.google.com/robots.txt is 3 lines long. That’s it.


Tweet 3 (258 chars)

The reason it’s the high water mark: the homepage hero references the CLI. gcloud, gemini-cli, firebase.

10 of 30 in agent-capabilities. Full marks in visibility-of-agent-integrations.

Cloud says SDK in body copy but doesn’t promote install above the fold.


Tweet 4 (258 chars)

Bot-access-control: 0/15 across all four surfaces.

No Google-Extended. No GPTBot. No ClaudeBot. No anthropic-ai. No Content-Signal.

Two and a half years after Google wrote the convention, none of these surfaces declare it.

The fix is one robots.txt block.


Tweet 5 (274 chars)

Discoverability: 0/25 across all four.

No /llms.txt anywhere. Not on developers, not on cloud, not on the blog, not on the marketing root.

Anthropic, Stripe, Vercel, Cloudflare ship it. Google’s developer subdomain — feeding the largest first-party docs corpus — does not.


Tweet 6 (268 chars)

Workspace MCP server is real. Vertex AI Agent Builder is real. Gemini exposes function-calling.

Zero of that is discoverable from any of these four URLs.

Two flagged anti-patterns: Invisible Product on google.com + blog.google. Agents Without Rules on the other two.


Tweet 7 (219 chars)

Top fix: publish Google-Extended on every Google-owned domain. The company that wrote the convention should be the one using it.

Full report — rubric, raw probe data, top fixes:

https://agentsfirst.dev/reports/google/


Tweet count: 7. All tweets under 280 chars.

Tags: @Google and @GoogleDevs on tweet 1; report URL only on tweet 7 (X throttles link-leading threads ~40%).

Note: tweet body is the text shown to the reader between > lines, including blank lines as \n chars. The > markdown markers and “Tweet N” labels are NOT part of the tweet.