# Pinecone

[pinecone.io](https://pinecone.io)

- **Overall score:** 83/100 (Grade B)
- **Checks passed:** 14 / 29
- **Last computed:** 2026-05-11

## Components

### Content Discoverability

- **Score:** 77/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 1 failed and 1 warning across 6 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Agents need a clear entry point and crawl map before they can reliably discover the right pages.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **LLMS TXT Exists** — llms.txt found at 2 location(s)
- ✅ **LLMS TXT Valid** — llms.txt follows the proposed structure (H1, blockquote, heading-delimited link sections)
- ⚠️ **LLMS TXT Size** — llms.txt is 75,069 characters (between 50,000 and 100,000; consider splitting) Your llms.txt is 75,069 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.
- ✅ **LLMS TXT Links Resolve** — All 15 same-origin sampled links resolve (643 total links)
- ✅ **LLMS TXT Links Markdown** — 15/15 same-origin sampled links point to markdown content (100%) (417 external links excluded)
- ❌ **LLMS TXT Directive** — No llms.txt directive found in any of 15 sampled pages No agent-facing directive pointing to llms.txt was detected on any tested page. Add a blockquote near the top of each page (e.g., "> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt)"). This can be visually hidden with CSS while remaining accessible to agents.

### Markdown Availability

- **Score:** 36/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 1 failed across 2 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** When markdown is available directly, agents spend less effort stripping presentation markup and guessing structure.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ❌ **Markdown Url Support** — No sampled pages support .md URLs (0/15 tested) Your pages don't return markdown when .md is appended to the URL. Configure your docs platform to serve .md variants for all documentation pages.
- ✅ **Content Negotiation** — 15/15 sampled pages support content negotiation (100%)

### Page Size and Truncation Risk

- **Score:** 97/100 · **Status:** partial
- **Summary:** 2 warnings across 4 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Large pages and delayed primary content increase truncation risk and make retrieval less reliable.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Rendering Strategy** — All 15 sampled pages contain server-rendered content
- ⚠️ **Page Size Markdown** — 2 of 15 pages between 50K–100K chars (max 58K) 2 of 15 markdown pages are between 50K and 100K characters. These may be truncated on some agent platforms or routed through summarization. Consider splitting large pages.
- ⚠️ **Page Size Html** — 2 of 15 sampled pages convert to 50K–100K chars (max 58K, 0% boilerplate) 2 of 15 pages convert to 50K-100K characters of markdown. These may be truncated on some agent platforms.
- ✅ **Content Start Position** — Content starts within first 10% on all 15 sampled pages (median 0%)

### Content Structure

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** pass
- **Summary:** 3 AFDocs checks pass.
- **Rationale:** Predictable sections, valid code fences, and serialized tabs make the content easier for agents to parse correctly.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Tabbed Content Serialization** — No tabbed content detected across 15 sampled pages
- ✅ **Section Header Quality** — No tabbed content found; header quality check not applicable
- ✅ **Markdown Code Fence Validity** — All 126 code fences properly closed across 17 pages

### URL Stability and Redirects

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** pass
- **Summary:** 2 AFDocs checks pass.
- **Rationale:** Stable URLs and sane redirect behavior prevent retrieval drift and broken tool references.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Http Status Codes** — All 15 sampled pages return proper error codes for bad URLs
- ✅ **Redirect Behavior** — No redirects detected across 15 sampled pages

### Observability and Content Health

- **Score:** 65/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** 1 failed and 1 warning across 3 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Coverage, parity, and cache behavior determine whether agents can trust the content they retrieve.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ❌ **LLMS TXT Freshness** — llms.txt covers 3/406 sitemap doc pages (1%); 403 missing; 203 llms.txt links not in sitemap (may indicate stale links or incomplete sitemap) Your llms.txt covers less than 80% of your site's pages. 403 live pages are missing from the index. Regenerate llms.txt from your sitemap or build pipeline.
- ✅ **Markdown Content Parity** — All 15 pages have equivalent markdown and HTML content (avg 0% missing)
- ⚠️ **Cache Header Hygiene** — 1 of 17 endpoints have moderate cache lifetimes (1–24 hours) 1 endpoints have moderate cache lifetimes (1-24 hours). Updates to llms.txt or markdown content may take hours to propagate.

### Authentication and Access

- **Score:** 100/100 · **Status:** partial
- **Summary:** 1 skipped across 2 AFDocs checks.
- **Rationale:** Agents need either public access or a clear alternative path when documentation is gated behind auth.
- **Reference:** [AFDocs reference](https://afdocs.dev)

**Checks**

- ✅ **Auth Gate Detection** — All 15 sampled pages are publicly accessible
- ⏭️ **Auth Alternative Access** — All docs pages are publicly accessible; no alternative access paths needed

### Full Content Discoverability

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** llms-full.txt has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** A full-document snapshot gives long-context agents a single canonical corpus to ingest without repeated crawling.
- **Reference:** [llms-full.txt guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/llmstxt#llms-full-txt)

**Checks**

- ❌ **LLMS Full Exists** — No llms-full.txt file was discovered.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Size** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Valid** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.
- ⏭️ **LLMS Full Links Resolve** — Skipped because llms-full.txt was not found.

### Agent Skills

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** skill.md has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** Agent skills provide product-specific operating guidance that plain documentation pages do not encode on their own.
- **Reference:** [skill.md guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/skillmd)

**Checks**

- ❌ **Skill MD** — No agent skill definition was discovered.

### MCP Server

- **Score:** 0/100 · **Status:** fail
- **Summary:** MCP has 1 failing check.
- **Rationale:** A discoverable MCP server lets agents use first-class tools instead of scraping pages and inferring behavior.
- **Reference:** [MCP guide](https://www.mintlify.com/docs/ai/model-context-protocol)

**Checks**

- ❌ **MCP Server Discoverable** — No MCP server was discovered at the expected endpoints.
- ⏭️ **MCP Tool Count** — Skipped because the MCP server was not discoverable.