How ready are your docs for AI agents?
See how easily AI agents can reach, parse, and use your documentation.
Built with Dachary Carey’s afdocs library, plus a few extra checks of our own.
By the numbers
Why agent readiness matters
Agents now read more docs than people, and the quality of those docs decides whether they succeed.
51.8%
of docs reads are AI agents
51.8% of intentional documentation reads on GitBook are AI agents.
Source: AI agents are now the majority reader ↗16/16 vs 4/16
Correct docs vs no docs
Agent task score with correct docs vs no docs.
Source: Docs defect experiment ↗Up to ~10x
Cost of a content gap
Up to nearly 10x agent cost when docs have a content gap.
Source: Docs defect experiment ↗12 of 12
Confident, but wrong
12 of 12 runs reported success with the wrong result when docs were inconsistent with the API.
Source: Docs defect experiment ↗88%
Docs drive purchase decisions
88% say docs are important when making a purchase decision; 70% of teams factor AI into information architecture.
Source: State of Docs 2026 ↗4x
Better-converting AI leads
Leads from AI tools like ChatGPT convert 4x better than organic search.
Source: AI is the new marketing funnel ↗
From the GitBook blog
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