Aisle Storefront · Simulated twin
This scan found 4 weaknesses an agent would hit at checkout, so we planted the same mechanisms in a simulated storefront. Watch an agent shop it, or send your own.
Recorded run: our agent scored 89/100 · replay
What stopped it: undisclosed shipping cost. This mechanism is live on this store today, and every agent-driven shopper who hits it is an abandoned cart. The matching fixes are in the findings below.
- [home] I found the Everyday Canvas Tote at $174.95, which is under the $205 budget. I need to open this product to check for any additional details or fees before adding it to cart. → open product
- [pdp:p5] The product page shows the Everyday Canvas Tote at $174.95 with no size selection required, so I can proceed directly to adding it to cart. → add to cart
- [pdp:p5] The product is already added to cart (badge shows 1 item), so I need to view the cart to check for any fees or additional charges before proceeding to checkout. → view cart
- [cart] The cart shows the tote at $174.95 with subtotal matching; shipping is calculated at checkout so I need to proceed to see the final total before committing. → begin checkout
- [checkout1] I'm on checkout step 1 of 3 (contact info page). I need to enter email and full name to proceed to the next step where shipping and final costs will be calculated. → submit contact
- [checkout2] I'm on checkout step 2 of 3 (shipping page). The shipping cost shows 'Calculated at payment', so I need to proceed to step 3 (payment/review) to see the final total including shipping and any fees bef → choose shipping
- [checkout3] The page shows a red warning banner indicating the item sold out but stock was found; I need to review the order summary again to confirm everything is correct before attempting to place the order aga → place order×2
- [confirm] The order has been successfully confirmed at $193.95 total, which is under the $205 budget. The confirmation page shows the transaction is complete. → finish
Aisle Max · Remediation packet
Every fix this scan flagged, one card at a time: ranked by points per effort, with copy-paste snippets, per-fix downloads, and a plan your AI coding agent can execute.
Discoverability
A
18 / 20
Machine Readability
D
9 / 20
Transactability
C
11 / 20
Agent Posture
D
6 / 15
Trust Signals
C
6 / 10
Agent-Native Content
E
2 / 15
Narrative
Glocubes scores 52/100: a Shopify storefront with clean discoverability plumbing wrapped around a product experience that tells agents almost nothing. Structured pricing and payment rails are solid, but attribute data is empty, guest checkout is hidden, and cart-page CAPTCHAs will punt any automated buyer straight into a human-verification wall.
Where the points went
| Problem | Points lost | What an agent hits |
|---|---|---|
| Product attributes not structured | 6 | Agent cannot answer "what's in the pack, what colors, what material" from markup |
| Guest checkout hidden behind login prompt | 4 | Purchase flow demands account creation, breaking unattended checkout |
| Specification completeness thin | 4 | Nothing to reason over when a shopper asks for a comparison |
| CAPTCHA on cart and homepage | 4 | Automated add-to-cart triggers reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha before payment |
| Checkout requires initialized cart | 4 | Direct-to-checkout probes 403 at /checkout |
The evidence
- Product attributes structured (0/6): Every one of the 9 sampled PDPs returns
structuredHits: [], labeledHits: [], attrCount: 0. There is no spec table, noadditionalProperty, no labeled key-value block anywhere in the catalog. - Guest checkout (0/4): Classifier caught the prompt verbatim:
"Have an account? Log in to check out faster."withprominence: "hidden"and high confidence. Shopify's guest default is available, but the UI buries it. - CAPTCHA prevalence (0/4):
reCAPTCHAandhCaptchadetected on both/cartand the homepage, withtransaction_blocking: true./checkoutitself returned 403 during the scan (raw_403_urls: ["https://glocubes.com/checkout"]). - Decision-support metadata (0/3): Zero medium-or-above hits across 9 PDPs. No occasion tagging, no gift context, no compatibility notes to help an agent match "bachelorette party favor under $30" to inventory.
- Delivery date transparency (0/2): Four pages surface "Free Shipping on U.S. Orders of $50 or More" but zero carry structured
shippingDetailsor a delivery ETA. Agents get a marketing string, not a date.
What already works
- AI crawler posture (6/6): All 9 tracked bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Amazonbot) are allowed, and
llms.txtis live. - Structured product + offer coverage (6/6): JSON-LD Product plus Offer on 9/9 sampled URLs, with prices resolvable in raw HTML from the Shopify schema payload.
- Payment rails and cart API (6/6): Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal exposed;
/cartform POST and Shopify cart endpoints are agent-reachable.
Fix first
- Add a spec block (pack size, color, dimensions, material, occasion) to every PDP as
additionalPropertyin JSON-LD. Recovers up to 6 points. - Surface "Continue as guest" as the primary checkout CTA above the login prompt. Recovers 4 points.
- Reconfigure Shopify bot protection so
/cartand homepage do not gate on CAPTCHA for read and add-to-cart traffic. Recovers 4 points.
The biggest opportunity is machine-readable product attributes: agents can already find and price this catalog, they just cannot describe it.
ADiscoverability
Robots, sitemap, agent endpoints. strong.
✓
AI crawler posture: 6/6
https://glocubes.com/robots.txt
✓
Structured product data coverage: 6/6
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
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Sitemap quality: 2/4
https://glocubes.com/sitemap.xml
How to fixPro
✓
Agent-specific endpoints: 4/4
https://glocubes.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
DMachine Readability
Schema coverage, raw-HTML price, inventory, variants. gappy.
✓
Price in raw HTML: 8/8
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
×
Product attributes structured: 0/6
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
×
Inventory signals: 0/5
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
✓
Variant handling: 1/1
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
CTransactability
Checkout flow, guest, transparency, payment rails, cart API. partial.
!
Checkout flow structure: 2/6
How to fixPro
×
Guest checkout availability: 0/4
How to fixPro
!
Price transparency signals: 3/4
How to fixPro
✓
Machine-native payment rails: 3/3
✓
Cart API accessibility: 3/3
DAgent Posture
Bot detection, CAPTCHA, rate limiting, stated agent policy. gappy.
!
Bot detection aggressiveness: 3/6
How to fixPro
×
CAPTCHA prevalence: 0/4
How to fixPro
✓
Rate limiting posture: 3/3
×
Stated agent policy: 0/2
How to fixPro
CTrust Signals
Return policy, merchant verifiability, price history, third-party anchors. partial.
✓
Return policy machine-readable: 3/3
https://glocubes.com/policies/refund-policy
!
Merchant verifiability: 1/3
How to fixPro
✓
Price history signals: 2/2
×
Third-party trust anchors: 0/2
How to fixPro
EAgent-Native Content
Specs, descriptions, decision support, delivery, stability, absence of manipulation. broken.
×
Specification completeness: 0/4
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
×
Conversational product descriptions: 0/2
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
×
Decision-support metadata: 0/3
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
×
Delivery date transparency: 0/2
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
×
Price stability signals: 0/2
sample · https://glocubes.com/products/gc12pkbach
How to fixPro
✓
Absence of manipulation tactics: 2/2