Terms in a clean format
R4.6Are the terms in a format an agent can extract reliably?
- Why it matters
- A web page mixes the terms with menus and scripts. A clean format lets AI agents read the terms reliably.
- What Lens looks for
- We checked whether your terms are also served as Markdown, JSON or plain text, not only as a web page.
- Where it sits
- Terms · Check 5 of 7
- Needed for
- No stage needs it. It counts toward its group.
- Builds on
- Terms that stay the same R4.5
- Needed by
- The same terms everywhere R4.7
- Usually fixed by
- Platform admin · Hours
What to do
Publish a Markdown, JSON or plain-text edition of the terms for agents.
Terms
Can an agent know the terms it would agree to?
The definition
- Definition
- Machine-readable types are text/markdown, text/plain, application/json and any +json type.
- Passes when
- A candidate that meets R4.2 is served as a machine-readable type; or the legal context declares termsFormat markdown, json or plain for it and the served type is not text/html.
- Decided by
- A rule
- Evidence
- The candidate's response headers; the legal context
- Steps
- terms, wellknown
- Made as
- anon
- Standards
- LCP §2.5 (termsFormat)LCP §2.8