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Using Hatch with RankReady

Bring RankReady's llms.txt, MCP well-known file, AI Summaries and FAQ schema to your headless Astro frontend with Hatch Connect, and check it is working.

Last updated October 29, 2026

By the end of this guide RankReady’s AI answer layer will be available on your headless Astro frontend, and you will know which RankReady settings Hatch Connect reads and how to check them.

What RankReady adds

RankReady is an AI SEO plugin. It works alongside Yoast, Rank Math or AIOSEO and does not compete with them on head meta. Its job is the AI answer layer:

  • /llms.txt (and llms-full.txt) so AI tools can discover your content.
  • /.well-known/mcp.json so AI agents can find your site’s MCP endpoint.
  • A per-post AI Summary used as Article.description in schema.
  • A per-post FAQ output as FAQPage JSON-LD.

How Hatch connects to RankReady

Hatch reads RankReady’s headless-mode settings. These are registered settings, so this is a supported read path. Hatch then exposes them in the public /wp-json/hatch/v1/features response under integrations.rankready, so the Astro frontend can proxy /llms.txt and /.well-known/mcp.json and add the Summary and FAQ JSON-LD to page schema.

The status block includes:

  • active: RankReady is installed and active.
  • headless_enabled: RankReady’s headless mode is on.
  • llms_txt and llms_full_txt: whether each is enabled, with its URL on your WordPress site.
  • mcp: whether the MCP well-known file was found, with its URL.
  • revalidate: revalidation settings.

Set it up

  1. Install and activate RankReady in WordPress.
  2. In RankReady’s settings, switch on headless mode.
  3. Switch on llms.txt (and llms-full.txt if you want it).
  4. Add AI Summaries and FAQs to your posts in RankReady.
  5. In wp-admin, open Hatch and go to the Plugins tab to confirm RankReady is detected.
  6. Redeploy your frontend.
The Hatch Plugins tab with the plugin connections list, including the SEO row
The Plugins tab lists each kind of plugin Hatch can read.

Check it works

  1. Open https://your-site.com/wp-json/hatch/v1/features and find integrations.rankready.
  2. Confirm active and headless_enabled are true.
  3. Check llms_txt.enabled is true.
  4. Open /llms.txt on your frontend address and confirm it loads.
  5. View the source of a post with an FAQ and look for FAQPage JSON-LD.

If a value is false, the setting is off in RankReady. Detection is not the same as data: Hatch can see RankReady while the features themselves are switched off.

Common problems

  • RankReady is not listed on the Plugins tab. Make sure the plugin is activated, not just installed, then reload the Hatch screen.
  • The frontend /llms.txt is empty or missing. Check llms_txt.enabled in the features response. If it is true, open the llms_txt.url value on your WordPress address to confirm RankReady itself is serving the file, then redeploy the frontend.
  • mcp.enabled is false. Hatch sets this by looking for /.well-known/mcp.json on your WordPress site. Turn on RankReady’s MCP feature and check that address loads.
  • No FAQ schema on a post. The post needs an FAQ added in RankReady. Posts without one have nothing to output.

Using RankReady with an SEO plugin

Keep your SEO plugin for titles and descriptions. Hatch reads head data from Rank Math or Yoast, and RankReady’s data from its own settings, so the two do not clash.

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