Terms of sale AI agents can read
R4.2Are the terms found, and readable without a browser?
- Why it matters
- An AI agent acting for someone shouldn't commit them to terms it couldn't read.
- What Lens looks for
- We looked for your terms where your site declares or links them, and checked a plain request gets their full text.
- Where it sits
- Terms · Check 1 of 7
- Needed for
- Agreeable
- Builds on
- Nothing
- Needed by
- Dated terms R4.3
- Usually fixed by
- Developer · Weeks
What to do
Serve the terms in the page as delivered, not assembled by script.
Terms
Can an agent know the terms it would agree to?
The definition
- Definition
- The terms candidates are found, in order, from the legal context's
terms, the UCP policy entries denoting terms of service, a Link header or <link rel="terms-of-service"> on the home page, home-page links matching the terms pattern, and the platform's conventional path; the first three found are captured. Extracted text is the served body with script and style removed. - Passes when
- A candidate answers 200, is not a refusal, and its extracted text has at least
termsMinWords(300) words and contains the terms pattern in its firsttermsPatternWithin(2000) characters. - Decided by
- A rule
- Evidence
- The candidate's response
- Steps
- terms
- Made as
- anon
- Standards
- LCP §2.3schema.org termsOfService