Linode (Akamai)

linode.com · Compute / VPS / Cloud Hosting modeIntegrated

Last probed 2026-08-09 23:48 UTC · Provisional

Linode (Akamai) — Self-serve cloud compute/VPS, now part of Akamai.

63 / 100triageInterrupt Score(range 32–82 · 10 properties unassessed)How much automated use this service interrupts — the badge-driving metric. Unassessed properties are provisionally scored at 50%; evidence-graded successes at 25%.

Custody / RiskUnknown

ConfidenceProvisional

Verdict: An agent can discover and activate on its own. Operate and manage aren't assessed yet.

DiscoverEasy
ActivateEasy
OperateNot assessed
ManageNot assessed

Capability parity

Each stage answers one question about what an agent can do unattended. Stages are ordered by the credential-gateway dependency: Activate issues the keys that unlock Operate and Manage.

Discover

Can an agent find and read it, no account?

Easy

Be found by a retrieval agentEasy
Retrieval access present.
Evidence
Path tried
robots.txt / sitemap / discovery headers
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 1 (unauth probe)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.
Backing checks
retrieval_bot_access, sitemap_xml
Read what it does and how to use itNot assessed
Read pricing & limits without loginNot assessed

Activate

Can an agent sign up and walk away with the keys it needs?

Easy

Create an account self-serveEasy
Signup inspected — no blocker found.
Evidence
Path tried
signup flow
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 1 (unauth probe)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.
Obtain an API / MCP access credentialNot assessed
Obtain a management / admin keyNot assessed
Accept the terms without a bot-banEasy
No bot-prohibition signal found.
Evidence
Path tried
ToS / policy scan
Where it stalled
completed
Evidence tier
Tier 0 (passive scan)
Verification
Evidence-only — graded from passive signal, not live-verified.

Operate

Can an agent do the service's actual jobs — call, transact, pay?

Not assessed

Call the primary service over MCP / APINot assessed
Complete a transaction / checkoutNot applicable
Integrated tool — the API call is the transaction, no separate checkout.
Pay via an agent rail (x402 / ACP / AP2)Not assessed

Manage

Can an agent administer the account and provision resources?

Not assessed

Provision / scale / tear down a serviceNot assessed
Change account details / set budget / rotate keysNot assessed
View usage & billingNot assessed
Cancel / export / delete (offboard)Not assessed

Findings

How scoring works →

Interrupt tier: Moderate-Interrupt — derived from 1 finding; interrupt score 63 / 100 — the badge-driving metric. (range 32–82 · 10 unassessed)

Every tool starts at 100. Each interrupt found subtracts a penalty of base weight × timing × hardness × evidence — the multiplier values below come from the same rubric tables the score is computed with. New snapshots also provisionally subtract 50% of the full worst-case tax for each unassessed property and 25% for evidence-graded successes not live-verified by Tier 2.

Property coverage

A check only counts as clean when a probe tier capable of detecting that interrupt actually ran and found nothing. Not tested ≠ clean.

Property	Stage	State	Evidence	Required
No Machine Interface	operate	failed	Active finding — itemized in the penalty matrix below. Tier 1 assesses this property.	yes
SSO-only signup, no API-key issuance	activate	partial	Some coverage exists, but the available evidence is incomplete. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
Email OTP verification	activate	unassessed	Tier 1 (unauth probe) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
SMS / phone OTP verification	activate	unassessed	Tier 1 (unauth probe) ran but did not gather enough evidence to claim clean. Tier 1 assesses this property.	no
Mandatory phone verification call	activate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Mailed physical code (postal)	activate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
“Contact sales” wall (no self-serve path)	activate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Manual approval queue	activate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Rate-limit-triggered manual review	manage	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
One-time account / payment-method provisioning	manage	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Identity / KYC verification	activate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
Crypto wallet / key-custody setup	operate	unassessed	No probe tier that can detect this has run yet — unknown, not clean. Tier 2 assesses this property.	no
CAPTCHA / bot-challenge	activate	success	None found — checked at Tier 0 (passive scan) + Tier 1 (unauth probe) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 0 assesses this property.	no
ToS clause banning automated/bot access	discover	success	None found — checked at Tier 0 (passive scan) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 0 assesses this property.	no
Mandatory redirect to vendor’s own site	operate	success	None found — checked at Tier 1 (unauth probe) (evidence-graded; not yet live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) Tier 1 assesses this property.	no

Interrupt found	Base weight	× Timing	× Hardness	× Evidence	= Penalty
Starting score					100
No Machine InterfaceoperateNeither an MCP server nor a usable API machine interface was found after Tier 0 and Tier 1 candidate checks.	9	×1one-time setup	×2.5hard	×0.8Tier 1 (unauth probe)	−18
Total penalty					−18
Full unknown tax 118.2 — capped at 25 (point score uses 50% of the capped value)					−118.2
Evidence-graded tax (successes not live-verified by a Tier 2 probe) 120.2 — capped at 25 (point score uses 25% of the capped value)					−120.2
Raw score = 100 − 18 = 82 Point score = 82 − 50% × 25 − 25% × 25 = 63.3 → 63					63

How we scored this

Confidence: Provisional (0.55) — Based on Tier 0/1 evidence only (passive checks, no live transaction attempt) — treat the number as a triage signal, not a verified outcome.
Machine-Readability sub-score: 34 / 100 (a separate integration-ease signal — it never enters the Interrupt Score or badge).
Some capability stages are not yet assessed — shown plainly in the spine above, never as a pass.
Rubric, tiers, confidence model, and badge thresholds →

Machine-readability checks 34 / 100

Four check groups, equal weight: machine interfaces, browsing efficiency, element discoverability, and discovery/agent access. Each check carries an evidence grade (proven / plausible / emerging) — an honesty label that never weights the score. What these mean →

llms.txtemergingNot provided
llms-full.txtemergingNot provided
AGENTS.mdemergingNot provided
A2A agent cardemergingNot provided
MCP server (well-known or official registry)plausibleNot provided
OpenAPI/Swagger specplausibleNot provided
Rate-limit headersplausibleNot provided
Structured JSON error responsesplausibleFound — api.linode.com/openapi.json
OAuth authorization-server metadata (RFC 8414)provenNot provided
API catalog (RFC 9727) (emerging)emergingNot provided
Agent-payment discovery (x402 / UCP) (emerging)emergingNot provided
Lean HTML transfer sizeplausible158 KB raw HTML (threshold 488 KB)
Manageable DOM sizeplausibleNot provided
High content-to-markup densityplausible4.4% text/HTML (7123 chars in 158 KB, threshold 2%)
Content readable without JS executionprovenraw HTML holds 67% of rendered text (7123 vs 10708 chars; threshold 40%)
Clean-content alternate (RSS/Atom/feed/markdown)plausibleNot provided
Serves markdown on Accept: text/markdownplausibleNot provided
Interactive elements are semanticplausibleNot provided
Form fields have accessible namesplausible13/13 named (100%)
Inputs carry autocomplete hintsplausibleNot provided
WebMCP tools (modelContext API)emergingNot provided
AI retrieval/search fetchers allowed (robots.txt)provenno retrieval-fetcher blocks in robots.txt
Sitemap (indexability)plausibleFound — www.linode.com/sitemap-index.xml
schema.org JSON-LD in raw HTMLplausibleNot provided
Content-Signal directives (robots.txt)emergingNot provided
Web Bot Auth key directory (emerging)emergingNot provided
Discovery Link headers on homepage (emerging)emergingNot provided
robots.txt AI-crawler accessplausibleno AI-crawler blocks in robots.txt
Unauthenticated API error is structured JSONplausibleFound — api.linode.com/ (HTTP 404)
Unauthenticated API returns auth guidance (401/403 or documented)plausibleNot provided
API exposes rate-limit headersplausibleNot provided
API key obtainable without human interactionplausibleNot checked — no OpenAPI spec found; self-serve API-key path indeterminate from Tier 1

Evidence & history

Last probed 2026-08-09 23:48 UTC. The raw JSON is the archival record.

Date	Score	Badge	Rubric version
2026-08-09 23:48 UTC	63	Moderate-Interrupt (current)	[email protected]
2026-08-09 23:48 UTC	63	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 17:13 UTC	63	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:25 UTC	70	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:25 UTC	70	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:17 UTC	70	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:17 UTC	70	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:14 UTC	70	Moderate-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 05:14 UTC	88	Low-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 03:14 UTC	88	Low-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 01:49 UTC	88	Low-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-08-09 01:45 UTC	88	Low-Interrupt	[email protected]
2026-07-10 07:17 UTC	100	Low-Interrupt	[email protected]

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