Readiness Scoring Tightened: Batch Mints and Test-Shaped Names No Longer Reach Transact-Ready

On October 9, 2026 we tightened the Readiness & Trust composite with two guardrails on top of the four existing sub-scores. Batch-publisher cap: if the agent’s publisher has already minted 100 or more agents on this chain, the composite is capped at 60 and the bucket drops to Promising. Name gate: an agent cannot be Transact-ready if its displayed name is three characters or fewer, ends with an NFT-style # suffix, matches a batch pattern such as WATCH-01 or RIGGER-25, or contains test, stale, stub, placeholder, demo, or example.