# PerplexityBot Access Audit

> PerplexityBot Access Audit is a paid API for AI agents from agentreadiness.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-14).

Passively audits a public URL or domain to determine whether PerplexityBot (Perplexity AI's web crawler) can access it, returning verdict, evidence, thresholds, and recommended actions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentreadiness.halowerk.com/v1/perplexitybot-access-audit?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/perplexitybot-access-audit-70f3c43f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_qsn6U6P82Z1SR6fv9CU81

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability perplexitybot-access-audit-70f3c43f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Check whether PerplexityBot can access my website at https://example.com — I want to know if it's blocked, what the evidence shows, and what I should do about it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a passive, read-only audit of whether PerplexityBot specifically is permitted to crawl a given public URL or domain. It is distinct from general SEO audits or audits targeting other bots (e.g. ClaudeBot, Googlebot). Prefer this when you want structured evidence-backed verdicts with action recommendations rather than raw robots.txt text, and when you need zero-risk assessment with no side effects on the target.

## Known failure modes

- Target URL is unreachable or returns non-2xx responses — audit may return inconclusive verdict
- robots.txt is missing or malformed — observation may be limited
- Private or login-gated pages cannot be inspected passively — result will note the limitation
- Invalid or non-HTTP(S) URL provided — request rejected with validation error
- Rate limits or network timeouts may prevent evidence retrieval

## How this service works

PerplexityBot access audit fetches current public evidence from the supplied target and evaluates the documented criterion. It returns the observation, threshold, verdict, exact evidence source, limitations and a mode-specific action. The check is passive: no login attempt, payload injection, exploit, purchase, form submission or load test is performed.

## Output

Returns a structured result containing the observation (what was found on the target), the evaluated criterion threshold, a clear pass/fail verdict on PerplexityBot access, the exact evidence source URL, any limitations of the passive check, and a mode-specific recommended action for the site owner. No login, form submission, exploit, or load test is performed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "target": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 2048,
   "minLength": 3,
   "description": "Public HTTP(S) URL or domain to inspect. A bare domain is normalized to HTTPS."
  },
  "context": {
   "type": "object",
   "description": "Optional non-secret correlation labels returned unchanged only in the request lifecycle.",
   "maxProperties": 12,
   "additionalProperties": {
    "type": [
     "string",
     "number",
     "boolean",
     "null"
    ]
   }
  },
  "baseline": {
   "type": [
    "object",
    "null"
   ],
   "description": "Optional baseline returned by a previous snapshot call.",
   "additionalProperties": true
  },
  "compare_url": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 2048,
   "minLength": 3,
   "description": "Optional public comparison URL. Used by change and monitoring services."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/perplexitybot-access-audit-70f3c43f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agentreadiness.halowerk.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agentreadiness.halowerk.com/llms.txt)