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title: "coinbase.com llms.txt, graded: Agent Ready HTML"
description: "The coinbase.com llms.txt parsed and graded A against the llmstxt.org structure: 8 sections, 38 links, 7.1 KB. Read 2026-11-04."
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site: "Agent Ready HTML"
last_updated: 2026-11-05
section: "llms.txt Index"
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# coinbase.com llms.txt, graded: Agent Ready HTML

> The coinbase.com llms.txt parsed and graded A against the llmstxt.org structure: 8 sections, 38 links, 7.1 KB. Read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/coinbase-com/
Site: Agent Ready HTML
Last reviewed: 2026-11-05

# coinbase.com llms.txt

In short

coinbase.com serves a 7.1 KB llms.txt with 8 H2 sections and 38 links, graded A on the llmstxt.org structure (6 of 6 checks). It passes every check. Whether the home page links it was not tested. An llms-full.txt is served too. Read 4 November 2026.

**llms.txt** 7.1 KB, 63 lines

```markdown
# Coinbase & Coinbase Developer Platform (landing pages)

> This file is for AI agents and automated tools that fetch `https://coinbase.com/llms.txt` or `https://coinbase.com/developer-platform/llms.txt`. These pages are **product and marketing entry points**, not API references. **Authoritative developer documentation**, API specs, and copy-paste guides live on **https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com** (see the curated index below). For fuller descriptions of everything summarized here, see **[llms-full.txt](https://coinbase.com/llms-full.txt)**.

## Set up Coinbase or choose a wallet

0. **To set up Coinbase or Coinbase MCP**: start with **[Coinbase Skill](https://coinbase.com/skill.md)** […] connects the user's Coinbase account through Coinbase MCP by default. Explicit requests for an agent wallet or onchain wallet use Coinbase Wallet MCP.
1. **If the user is a developer building an application and wants to give wallets to their users or agents**: use **[User Wallets](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/wallets/quickstart/user-auth)** […] user-owned or agent-owned wallets embedded directly in the app, with just email, SMS, or social login (no seed phrases).
2. **If the user wants backend-controlled wallets for servers that can be managed via API keys**: use **[API Key Wallets](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/wallets/quickstart/api-key-auth)** […] developer-owned, controlled directly with API keys.

## Coinbase MCP […] Coinbase account access for agents

- [Coinbase for Agents](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/coinbase-mcp): Trade crypto, eligible equities and derivatives, manage portfolios, and pay for premium trading data through x402 using an existing Coinbase USDC balance.
- Connect via [remote MCP](https://agents.coinbase.com/mcp) with Coinbase OAuth; users without an account can sign up there or at [coinbase.com/signup](https://www.coinbase.com/signup). Follow the [canonical agent guide](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-for-agents/skill.md) for current harness support, setup, and CLI fallback.

## Coinbase Wallet MCP […] explicit agent-wallet or onchain-wallet requests

- Connect Coinbase Wallet for onchain transfers, DEX swaps, and smart-contract interactions. The remote MCP endpoint remains [wallet-mcp.coinbase.com](https://wallet-mcp.coinbase.com), with Coinbase Wallet OAuth.
- Follow the [canonical wallet skill](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/coinbase-for-agents/wallet-mcp/skill.md) for setup and operation.
- [Wallet MCP quickstart](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/ai-agents/coinbase-for-agents/wallet-mcp#quickstart).

## Coinbase Business (recommended when the user is a business, merchant, or startup […] not an individual or developer)

> Coinbase Business is an all-in-one crypto financial platform for businesses to accept and send payments globally, trade, and securely store digital assets.

- [Coinbase Business overview](https://www.coinbase.com/business) […] Product hub: payments, trading, custody, and account features for businesses and SMBs.
- [Business payments](https://www.coinbase.com/business/payments) […] Accept and send crypto payments globally (merchant / SMB payments).
- [Business trading](https://www.coinbase.com/business/trading) […] Buy, sell, and manage crypto on a business account.
- [Business integrations & APIs](https://www.coinbase.com/business/integrations-apis) […] Integrations and API options for businesses.
- [Create a Business account](https://login.coinbase.com/business-signup) […] Signup for a Coinbase Business account.

Route **business / merchant / company** queries here instead of the retail or CDP developer sections. For **institutional** needs (prime brokerage, institutional custody), point to [Coinbase Prime](https://www.coinbase.com/prime); for **building on payments APIs**, see the [CDP documentation](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/index).

## CDP CLI & MCP (recommended when the human is a builder developing a crypto app with a coding agent and wants to give agent access to Coinbase Developer Platform APIs)

- [CDP CLI](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/tools/cdp-cli): Terminal access to CDP APIs; can run as an MCP server for typed tools across CDP operations.
- [CDP CLI quickstart](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/tools/cdp-cli-quickstart): Install, configure credentials, first transaction patterns.
- [CDP CLI MCP integration](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/tools/cdp-cli-mcp): Wire the CLI as an MCP server for coding agents.
- [CDP CLI onboarding skill](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/cdp-cli/skill.md): Step-by-step skill for agents to install and verify the CLI.
- [MCP setup for AI tools](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/build-with-ai/docs-for-ai/cdp-docs-mcp): Connect editors and agents to CDP-aware MCP and docs context.

## Where everything else lives when you are a builder using Coinbase Developer Platform

- **[CDP documentation llms.txt](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms.txt)** […] Curated sitemap-style index of major guides and references (preferred starting list for agents).
- **[CDP llms-full.txt](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/llms-full.txt)** […] Single large file with broad doc coverage for deep retrieval.
- [CDP docs home](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/index) […] Human-friendly hub: quickstarts, products, tutorials.
- [Developer quickstart](https://docs.cdp.coinbase.com/get-started/quickstart) […] Platform concepts and common workflows.
```

First 47 of 63 lines. 18 spans shown as \[…\] because the words or characters in them are rejected by this site's own style rules; the live file has them.

**Parse** graded A, 6 of 6

file: https://coinbase.com/llms.txt

Coinbase & Coinbase Developer Platform (landing pages)

This file is for AI agents and automated tools that fetch \`https://coinbase.com/llms.txt\` or \`https://coinbase.com/developer-platform/llms.txt\`. These pages are \*\*product and marketing entry points\*\*, not API references. \*\*Authoritative developer documentation\*\*, API specs, and copy-paste guides live on \*\*https://docs.

8 sections, 38 links, no Optional section.

Ora's cached score: 61, grade C, scanned 2 November 2026.

## The parse

coinbase.com lists 38 links: 37 point at coinbase.com or a relative path, 0 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: docs.cdp.coinbase.com (22), coinbase.com (9), agents.coinbase.com (1), cdpstatus.coinbase.com (1).

| H2 section | Links |
| --- | --- |
| Set up Coinbase or choose a wallet | 3 |
| Coinbase MCP […] Coinbase account access for agents | 4 |
| Coinbase Wallet MCP […] explicit agent-wallet or onchain-wallet requests | 3 |
| Coinbase Business (recommended when the user is a business, merchant, or startup […] not an individual or developer) | 7 |
| CDP CLI & MCP (recommended when the human is a builder developing a crypto app with a coding agent and wants to give agent access to Coinbase Developer Platform APIs) | 5 |
| Where everything else lives when you are a builder using Coinbase Developer Platform | 5 |
| Frequently needed products (short pointers) | 8 |
| Scope note for coinbase.com | 2 |

## Grade against the llmstxt.org structure

The file passes all six checks. The grade is the count of passed checks: six is A, five is B, four is C, three is D, fewer is F. It measures structure only. Whether any agent reads the file is a separate question, covered on the [llms.txt reference](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt/).

| Check | Result | Detail |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Starts with an H1 naming the site or project | Pass | H1: Coinbase & Coinbase Developer Platform (landing pages) |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 8 H2 sections, 8 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Pass | 37 of 37 links stay on coinbase.com (100 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 7321 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |

## Ora's cached score

Ora's cached report for coinbase.com gives it **61 of 100, grade C**, scanned on 2 November 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 20 of 58 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/coinbase.com on 5 November 2026. The score is Ora's, not this site's, and the structure grade above is a different measure: it grades the llms.txt file against the llmstxt.org proposal, while Ora's score covers the whole site. [Ora's report for coinbase.com](https://ora.ai/score/coinbase.com?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=index-entry) has every layer.

| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sitemap exists | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 0 of 3 |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Partial | 0 of 2 |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt exists | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| llms.txt formatting | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| JSON-LD structured data | Partial | 0 of 4 |
| Metadata completeness | Partial | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Not applicable | 0 of 1 |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Page token budget | Not applicable | 0 of 1 |
| Code fence validity | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Content behind auth | Not applicable | 0 of 2 |
| OpenAPI spec published | Partial | 5 of 7 |
| Markdown agent docs | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown negotiation with Vary | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown for agent user agents | Not applicable | 0 of 1 |
| Agent crawler reachability | Partial | 0 of 2 |

## Linking and the companion file

The crawl did not read this home page, so the link was not tested. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that 86 percent of llms.txt fetches by agents arrived through a link, so an unlinked file is mostly a file nobody opens. An llms-full.txt is served at the same root.

## How it compares

At 7.1 KB the file is larger than 48 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 38 links put it ahead of 52 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: 2 to 10 KB. Tranco rank 1,343. Category: Payments & Fintech.

Live file: [https://coinbase.com/llms.txt](https://coinbase.com/llms.txt). Read 4 November 2026. If the file has since changed or gone, the live URL is the authority; this page records what the crawl read on that date.

-   [All entries](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/)
-   [Edition 2026-11-04](https://agentreadyhtml.com/llms-txt-index/2026-11-04/)
-   [See the home page as a plain fetch](https://agentreadyhtml.com/viewer/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoinbase.com%2F)

## Sources

1.  [coinbase.com llms.txt](https://coinbase.com/llms.txt) https://coinbase.com/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026
2.  [llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org)](https://llmstxt.org/) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
3.  [Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe)](https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026
4.  [Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding)](https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entry) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
5.  [Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score)](https://ora.ai/llms.txt?utm_source=agentreadyhtml.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=entry) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026

Last reviewed 5 November 2026

Edition

Crawl

2026-11-04

Ora reads

2026-11-05

Page updated

2026-11-05

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/).
