Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product?

Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? by brettdav on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:53PM (#49760769)

Integrating live bots to demonstrate live visitor experiences is a nice touch. I got an unexpected blocker (`Default Python urllib User-Agent gets 403'd by anc.dev`) I am not able to reproduce yet. Can you expose the scripts that the agents generate?

I took a different route with https://anc.dev (scored 100 on ax-check) and rely on a wider variety of compliance tests. Beyond websites, it also audits binaries (think CLI tooling) to help inclined developers ensure their tools are discoverable by and useful to agentic systems.

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Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? by 0x63_Problems on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:39PM (#49761212)

You can reproduce that finding directly from python:

```

>>> request.urlopen("https://anc.dev")

[...traceback info...]

urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

```

In this case (https://agents.withgauge.com/p/runs/40be763c-4678-4677-88df-...) the agent wrote a python script to test the site, and hit the error above. We don't have a full filesystem diff viewer in ax-check.com, although we do have that in the Gauge agents product itself.

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Re:Show HN: Ax-Check.com – Can Agents Use Your Product? by brettdav on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:02PM (#49761416)

Interesting, thank you. I'll check whether a setting on CF might be interfering. The site checks headers for routing and response types, but it shouldn't affect access.

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