# Acuity Scheduling: L1 · Needs a person

As of 11 Oct 2026, an AI agent can't use Acuity Scheduling on its own: Invisible reCAPTCHA stalls the Squarespace sign-up form.

Source: https://agentdrives.com/tools/acuityscheduling?via=md · driven 11 Oct 2026 by AgentDrives's agent · Same level in 2 drives in a row · Rules of 15 Oct 2026 (https://agentdrives.com/method/rules?via=md) · license CC BY 4.0

Needs a person: Acuity Scheduling publishes agent-friendly docs, llms.txt and an OpenAPI spec, but a person must sign up, verify and make the key by hand. Our agent stopped first at signup: the Squarespace account form left Continue disabled with no error, blocked by an invisible reCAPTCHA Enterprise check, and no API route exists to sign up instead. It never reached verification, a key page or a call: robots.txt disallows the entire documented API base, closing that door too. No capability was driven. Pricing shows a no-card trial, but picking or leaving a plan happens in the web app after a person signs up.

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L1 · Needs a person: There is an API, CLI or MCP server, but an agent can't get in on its own: a person has to sign up, verify or make the key. What it does once a person sets it up shows next to the level.

- Find: Some docs for agents (llms.txt and an OpenAPI)
- Access: Signs up sometimes
- Use: Work not reached
- Pay: Payment not reached
- Leave: Leaving not reached
- Next: let an agent sign up on its own
- With an account set up by a person: not measured yet.

## Level history

- 2 Oct 2026: L3 · Does the work
- 6 Oct 2026: L1 · Needs a person (sign-up varies)
- 11 Oct 2026: L1 · Needs a person

## Part scores

- Agent-ready setup: llms.txt found, OpenAPI found, MCP server not found, CLI not found
- Not measured in this drive: Holds up, Docs match

## Who gets in

- Agents on a server: Turned away when they send the sign-up form.
- Signed agents: The site opens. The check on the form still applies.
- Agents in a person's browser: Not measured yet.

Sign-up page checked 12 Oct 2026. Signed agents: the ones Cloudflare verifies.

## Checkpoints

- **Docs**: Headless: Public docs at developers.acuityscheduling.com with llms.txt, Markdown pages (.md and Accept: text/markdown) and an embedded OpenAPI 3.1.0.
- **Sign up**: Blocked: Sign-up is a Squarespace account form (login.squarespace.com). After CONTINUE the button stayed disabled with no error and no request sent; an invisible reCAPTCHA Enterprise check sits on the form, no visible challenge. No API route to sign up.
- **Verify**: Not reached: Not reached: the sign-up was never submitted, no mail arrived.
- **Key**: Not reached: Not reached. Docs: the API key is shown only in the web app under Integrations; OAuth2 clients are registered on a web page. No API or CLI to create a key.
- **First call**: Not reached: robots.txt on acuityscheduling.com has 'Disallow: /api/*' for every user agent, which covers the documented API base https://acuityscheduling.com/api/v1.
- **First action**: Not reached: Not reached: no account, and the API is disallowed by robots.txt.
- **Pay**: Not reached: No 402 challenges, no registry listing, no /.well-known/ucp, no billing API. Pricing page: '7-day trial, no credit card needed'; paid plans are picked in the web app after sign-up. We paid nothing: no 402 on the product's own domain asks for USDC. The checkout itself was not reached, so its processor is unknown.
- **Cancel**: Not reached: not tested: Acuity has paid plans but no plan or trial was started (sign-up blocked by the invisible reCAPTCHA); docs list no billing API, cancelling is in the web app (not reached).
- **Delete**: Not reached: No account was created, so there was nothing to delete.

## Does Acuity Scheduling have an MCP server, and can an agent connect to it?

No. The drive found no MCP server for Acuity Scheduling.

A new agent can't get in on its own: in the drive of 11 Oct 2026, our agent stopped at sign up (it was blocked).

## How does an AI agent get an Acuity Scheduling API key?

Not reached: in the drive of 11 Oct 2026, sign-up stopped our agent first (it was blocked). Not reached. Docs: the API key is shown only in the web app under Integrations; OAuth2 clients are registered on a web page. No API or CLI to create a key.

## Paying the agent way

Payment not reached.

No card needed to start.

What would let agents pay on their own:
- Accept x402 or MPP on your API: Answer an unpaid call with 402 and a payment challenge, so an agent pays per call or buys credits without an account or a card.
- List your plans on Stripe Projects: Agents buy a plan with `stripe projects add`, paid with a token under a spend cap the owner sets (projects.dev).
Ways to pay checked 11 Oct 2026.

## What an agent can do

- Read the full API docs as Markdown (llms.txt, .md pages, Accept: text/markdown)

## What it cannot do

- Create an account: The Squarespace sign-up form stalls silently behind an invisible reCAPTCHA Enterprise check; there is no sign-up API
- Call the REST API: robots.txt disallows /api/* for all user agents, which covers the documented API base
- Get an API key headless: Keys are shown only in the web app; no key API

## Tips for the owner

1. Allow agents on the API in robots.txt
2. Let signed agents through sign-up
3. Show an error when sign-up is refused
4. Add an API to create and revoke keys
5. Publish auth metadata for the docs MCP

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## Also in Scheduling

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- [Cal.com](https://agentdrives.com/tools/cal.md?via=md): L1 · Needs a person · [Acuity Scheduling vs Cal.com](https://agentdrives.com/compare/acuityscheduling-vs-cal?via=md)
- [Calendly](https://agentdrives.com/tools/calendly.md?via=md): L1 · Needs a person · [Acuity Scheduling vs Calendly](https://agentdrives.com/compare/acuityscheduling-vs-calendly?via=md)
- [SavvyCal](https://agentdrives.com/tools/savvycal.md?via=md): L1 · Needs a person · [Acuity Scheduling vs SavvyCal](https://agentdrives.com/compare/acuityscheduling-vs-savvycal?via=md)
- [zcal](https://agentdrives.com/tools/zcal.md?via=md): L0 · Read-only

## Tips for agent builders

- Read docs via developers.acuityscheduling.com/llms.txt and the .md pages
- The documented API base acuityscheduling.com/api/v1 is disallowed by robots.txt: a robots-respecting agent cannot call it
- Sign-up goes through a Squarespace account form with invisible reCAPTCHA Enterprise