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title: "AFDocs: glossary: Agent Ready HTML"
description: "AFDocs defined: The Agent-Friendly Documentation spec and its open-source checker, used by Mintlify, ReadMe and GitBook docs scores."
canonical: https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/afdocs/
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last_updated: 2026-11-04
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# AFDocs: glossary: Agent Ready HTML

> AFDocs defined: The Agent-Friendly Documentation spec and its open-source checker, used by Mintlify, ReadMe and GitBook docs scores.

Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/afdocs/
Site: Agent Ready HTML
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# AFDocs

In short

The Agent-Friendly Documentation spec and its open-source checker, used by Mintlify, ReadMe and GitBook docs scores. Example: afdocs.dev lists 28 checks in 7 categories. Related terms: Agent score (docs), Agent 404, Accept header. Agent score (docs): A docs-specific readiness score computed from AFDocs-style checks, published by docs vendors.

## Source of the example

The example in the summary above is from [afdocs.dev](https://afdocs.dev/), read 4 November 2026.

## Where it shows up on this site

-   [Guide: test readability in CI](https://agentreadyhtml.com/guides/test-readability-in-ci/)

## Neighbouring terms

-   [Agent score (docs)](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/docs-agent-score/): A docs-specific readiness score computed from AFDocs-style checks, published by docs vendors.
-   [Agent 404](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/agent-404/): A 404 response written for agents, often markdown, that links the index and similar pages so the agent can recover.
-   [Accept header](https://agentreadyhtml.com/glossary/accept-header/): The request header that lists media types a client will take, with optional q weights.

## Sources

1.  [afdocs.dev](https://afdocs.dev/) https://afdocs.dev/, read 4 November 2026

Last reviewed 4 November 2026

Edition

Crawl

2026-11-04

Page updated

2026-11-04

Method

How the viewer reads a page, how a file is graded and how a platform is scored: [the method page](https://agentreadyhtml.com/method/).