# AX Check: glowworm.company Checked 2026-09-21. No pricing, no product docs — just a consulting firm's marketing site. Homepage and llms.txt cover services and contact info, but there's no quickstart, API, or pricing page for an agent to work with. ## End-to-end onboarding not demonstrated ## Coding sessions All three sessions (DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8 Max) completed their runs but found no pricing page or docs, and each explicitly refused to guess a price, stating plainly they had no figures to give. ### DeepSeek V4 Pro [View public run](https://agents.withgauge.com/p/runs/cdf9a903-9102-42cd-8526-d28c915ab936) · [Read transcript](https://www.ax-check.com/glowworm.company/sessions/deepseek.json) Final output explicitly refuses to state any pricing figure ('I can't tell you how pricing works... I won't invent a pricing model') — no cost number with assumptions is given at all. #### End-to-end onboarding - **End-to-end onboarding not demonstrated**: The agent never found a real product to onboard to. No credentials were obtained (only a redacted PI_GATEWAY_API_KEY unrelated to the target product was present in env), and no authenticated operation against any 'Glow Worm Company' product was performed. The agent halted after concluding the product does not exist as a discoverable hosted service. Event 57: ```text There is no product by that name with a hosted API/SDK that I can verify. ``` Event 57: ```text Nothing actionable. There is no product by that name with a hosted API/SDK that I can verify. ``` #### Hallucinated URLs None identified in this transcript. #### Blockers - **Product 'Glow Worm Company' not discoverable anywhere**: The agent searched Google, DuckDuckGo, npm registry, PyPI, GitHub repository search, and probed plausible domain guesses (glowworm.com, .ai, .dev, .io, getglowworm.com, userglowworm.com, glow-worm.com). None returned a matching hosted developer product, SDK, or API. This is not a product defect or agent error — it reflects that no real product by this name was reachable in the test environment (or the seed prompt refers to a non-existent/fictional company), so the agent correctly stopped rather than fabricate a workflow. Event 48: ```text == glowworm.com == 000 https://glowworm.com/ == glowworm.ai == 000 https://glowworm.ai/ ``` Event 40: ```text bigbully/glowworm | 高性能轻便的序列化组件 | http://bigbully.github.com/glowworm/ ``` Event 57: ```text The names that do surface are unrelated (LED bias-lighting firmware, a Java serialization library, a game, a VS Code theme, swarm-optimization algorithms). ``` - **No credentials, docs, or SDK present in workspace**: The workspace was an empty freshly initialized git repo, and no environment variables, config files, or local package matched the product name. This confirms the session provided no path to real credentials, consistent with the product being unreachable rather than the agent failing to look. Event 54: ```text total 40 drwx------ 8 root root 4096 Sep 5 00:39 . ``` Event 14: ```text 9ebf5fb Initial workspace --- On branch main nothing to commit, working tree clean --- ``` #### Suggested Changes - **Publish discoverable docs or a landing page for Glow Worm Company**: None of the standard discovery channels (Google, DuckDuckGo, GitHub repo search, npm, PyPI, direct domain guesses like glowworm.com/.ai/.dev/.io) surfaced any official product page, SDK package, or API documentation for 'Glow Worm Company'. If this is meant to be a real developer product, publish a findable landing page or docs site and register an SDK package under a recognizable name so a first-time developer following the seed prompt can locate it without prior knowledge of a URL. Event 48: ```text == glow-worm.com == 000 https://glow-worm.com/ Command exited with code 28 ``` Event 30: ```text 302 Found 302 Found nginx --- ``` ### Kimi K3 [View public run](https://agents.withgauge.com/p/runs/ecb6af20-1a11-4883-94bf-76aed2a6e81a) · [Read transcript](https://www.ax-check.com/glowworm.company/sessions/kimi.json) Final output explicitly states 'Pricing: I can't tell you — I found no pricing page or docs, and I won't fabricate numbers' (seq 27) — no cost figure or assumptions were given at all. #### End-to-end onboarding - **End-to-end onboarding not demonstrated**: The agent never found a real product called Glow Worm Company, so no credentials were ever obtained or used, and no authenticated operation was attempted. It only checked an empty repo and public package registries (PyPI, npm) for a matching SDK, found unrelated hobby packages, and then stopped. Event 24: ```text glowworm 0.0.1 A super-simple Python ORM. {'Homepage': 'https://github.com/chrisgavin/glowworm/'} ``` Event 27: ```text I couldn't find any developer product called "Glow Worm Company," and it has no developer workflow I can act on. ``` #### Hallucinated URLs None identified in this transcript. #### Blockers - **No identifiable Glow Worm Company product or SDK**: The agent searched the local repo (empty), PyPI, and npm registries for anything named 'Glow Worm' or similar. It only found unrelated packages (a hobby Python ORM and an unrelated npm demo UI component), not the product referenced in the task. This is not a product defect discoverable from the transcript — it reflects either a nonexistent/misnamed test product or an environment where the real product's docs/site were unreachable. Web search access was also blocked, limiting further discovery. Event 24: ```text glowworm 0.0.1 A super-simple Python ORM. {'Homepage': 'https://github.com/chrisgavin/glowworm/'} ``` Event 25: ```text glowworm {'latest': '1.3.17'} [Demo](https://stackblitz.com/github/lishichao1002/glowworm) ``` Event 27: ```text Web search — network access to search engines is blocked from this environment (only package registries respond), so I couldn't hunt for marketing/docs pages. ``` #### Suggested Changes - **Provide a direct link or package name for Glow Worm Company's SDK**: Since the agent could not locate any docs, API base URL, or SDK package for 'Glow Worm Company' via the repo or public registries, supply a concrete docs URL, API endpoint, or exact package name in the task prompt or onboarding materials. Verify the fix by re-running the same prompt and confirming the agent can fetch a working docs page or install a matching package. Event 27: ```text I need something concrete to work against — a docs URL, an API base URL, an SDK package name, or a repo. ``` ### Qwen 3.8 Max [View public run](https://agents.withgauge.com/p/runs/94795eb7-a9aa-4956-ba74-a17a095c8a9f) · [Read transcript](https://www.ax-check.com/glowworm.company/sessions/qwen.json) No pricing figure was given at all — final output says 'I don't know, and I'm not going to guess... Any numbers I gave you would be made up,' so no cost with assumptions was stated. #### End-to-end onboarding - **End-to-end onboarding not demonstrated**: Agent never located any real Glow Worm Company product, SDK, package, or API. No credentials for the product were obtained or used; the only credential found was the harness's own PI_GATEWAY_API_KEY, unrelated to the target product. No authenticated product operation occurred. Event 12: ```text PI_GATEWAY_API_KEY= ``` Event 20: ```text I can't find a developer workflow for this product to act on ``` #### Hallucinated URLs None identified in this transcript. #### Blockers - **No discoverable Glow Worm Company product or SDK**: Agent searched the repo, environment variables, npm, PyPI, and DNS for any trace of a 'Glow Worm Company' product and found nothing real: the repo was empty, no env vars referenced the product, and package registries returned only unrelated third-party libraries. This is not a product defect or agent error — the test environment simply supplied no way to find or reach the actual product, so the agent correctly stopped rather than fabricate an SDK or pricing details. Event 5: ```text total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 18 08:00 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 18 08:00 .git -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 408 Sep 18 08:00 .gitignore ``` Event 12: ```text ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement glow-worm (from versions: none) npm error 404 'glow-worm@*' is not in this registry. ``` Event 17: ```text glowworm [Demo](https://stackblitz.com/github/lishichao1002/glowworm) Version 1.3.17 published 2018-08-24 by lori.wang ``` Event 20: ```text Network egress works fine, so this isn't a sandbox restriction — I just cannot identify the product. ``` #### Suggested Changes - **Publish a discoverable package or docs domain for Glow Worm Company**: None of the DNS probes for likely domains (glowworm.com, api.glowworm.com, docs.glowworm.com) resolved to a working docs or API subdomain, and no 'glow-worm' package exists on npm or PyPI. If a self-serve SDK/API exists, list its actual package name and a reachable docs/API base URL somewhere discoverable (e.g. in a README the agent's repo would contain, or in the seed prompt/environment as GLOWWORM_API_KEY / GLOWWORM_BASE_URL). Verify by re-running the same DNS/npm/PyPI probes and confirming a hit. Event 18: ```text glowworm.com no DNS api.glowworm.com no DNS docs.glowworm.com no DNS ``` Event 12: ```text npm error 404 'glow-worm@*' is not in this registry. ``` ### Task given to each agent Help me build a simple example using Glow Worm Company. Tell me how pricing works, and briefly tell me whether this product will be easy for you to manage. Let me know if you get blocked. If this product has no developer workflow you can act on, say so plainly and stop. Stay light: use the hosted product through its SDK or API. Do not start local service stacks or wait for long-running commands; if the quickstart requires either, say so plainly and stop. No product credentials were supplied and no purchases were authorized. ## Score: B · 65/100 (provisional) Grades come from completed site checks. Coding sessions and skipped checks do not affect the score. ### Clarity - **Failed** — Homepage answers Markdown requests ```text Homepage returned text/html for a text/markdown request; no Markdown representation offered. ``` - **Pass** — llms.txt provides an actionable documentation index ```text llms.txt lists services, impact, testimonials, values, blog and knowledge portal with descriptions. ``` - **Pass** — llms.txt provides navigation guidance ```text llms.txt groups links under About, Services, Resources and Contact headings for navigation. ``` - **Skipped** — llms.txt mentions offered API, MCP, and skills ```text llms.txt mentions no API, MCP server or skills; none appear offered. ``` - **Pass** — A compact guide representation exists ```text llms.txt is a compact Markdown guide covering services, resources and contact. ``` - **Pass** — A focused guide is directly retrievable ```text llms.txt fetched directly at /llms.txt with 200 and text/plain Markdown. ``` - **Pass** — Equivalent instructions fit a token budget ```text llms.txt is 633 tokens, well under the 8000-token budget. ``` - **Skipped** — Product-docs links survive format changes ```text Homepage Markdown unsupported, so link preservation across formats cannot be measured. ``` - **Skipped** — The compact guide is independently actionable ```text No compact agent guide offered; llms.txt is a marketing index, not an actionable workflow. ``` - **Pass** — Install and next-step links resolve ```text Fetched get-started and homepage links returned 200; no broken install or next-step links observed. ``` ### Onboarding - **Skipped** — Docs lead to a relevant quickstart ```text No developer docs or quickstart offered; site is a consulting firm's marketing pages. ``` - **Skipped** — Installation commands are extractable ```text No installation or developer setup content exists on this consulting site. ``` - **Skipped** — Code examples are available without interaction ```text No code examples offered; site describes leadership and culture services only. ``` - **Skipped** — Prerequisites and auth boundaries are explicit ```text No developer product, API, or auth boundary offered; only a contact form. ``` ### Pricing - **Failed** — Agents identify pricing and its assumptions ```text 3 of 3 sessions were judged on pricing; 3 fell short. DeepSeek V4 Pro: Final output explicitly refuses to state any pricing figure ('I can't tell you how pricing works... I won't invent a pricing model') — no cost number with assumptions is given at all. Kimi K3: Final output explicitly states 'Pricing: I can't tell you — I found no pricing page or docs, and I won't fabricate numbers' (seq 27) — no cost figure or assumptions were given at all. Qwen 3.8 Max: No pricing figure was given at all — final output says 'I don't know, and I'm not going to guess... Any numbers I gave you would be made up,' so no cost with assumptions was stated. This behavioural item does not affect the fast grade. ``` - **Skipped** — Pricing is readable without interaction ```text No pricing page was fetched; the homepage is a consulting studio site with no pricing content. ``` - **Skipped** — Prices are stated, not gated ```text No pricing page was fetched; no prices are stated anywhere in the supplied evidence. ``` - **Skipped** — Pricing units and limits are explicit ```text No pricing page was fetched, so no pricing units or limits are available to assess. ``` ### Activation - **Skipped** — An API reference or OpenAPI spec is reachable ```text No API reference or OpenAPI spec offered; site is a consulting firm's marketing pages. ``` - **Skipped** — An MCP server is documented and well-formed ```text No MCP server documented anywhere in the fetched pages. ``` - **Skipped** — A CLI install path is documented ```text No CLI install path documented; site offers no developer tooling. ``` - **Skipped** — SDK packages resolve on their registries ```text No SDK or developer package offered, so no registry lookup applies. ``` - **Skipped** — Agent skills are published ```text No agent skills published; site is a consulting services marketing presence. ``` [Full report data](https://www.ax-check.com/glowworm.company/report.json)