# The Brass Monkey: Agent-Direct Score B (73.8%) Site: http://www.brassmonkey.ie/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/brassmonkey.ie Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Brass Monkey is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open The Brass Monkey's website. It can read what The Brass Monkey offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.brassmonkey.ie/menu - Phone: +35318063746 - Address: 12 W Pier, D13 T1X6, Howth - Its menu mentions: vegan options, allergens ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Brass Monkey that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Dorans Howth (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/seafood2go.ie - Beshoffs of Howth (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/beshoffs.ie - Kish Fish café (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/kishfish.ie - Wrights Findlater Howth (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/findlater.ie - Mamo Restaurant (390 m): https://directindex.org/r/mamorestaurant.ie ## What to fix first - **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+1 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Brass Monkey > local business (european) in 12 W Pier, D13 T1X6, Howth, Dublin. Phone +35318063746. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.brassmonkey.ie/menu ## About - Website: http://www.brassmonkey.ie/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 462 of 1226 in Dublin. Top 38% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 58% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 78% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 20% | no | Nearest places in the index: The Pier House Restaurant (C, 6 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepierhouse.ie); Octopussy Seafood Tapas Bar (D, 100 m, https://directindex.org/r/octopussy.ie); Dorans Howth (A, 113 m, https://directindex.org/r/seafood2go.ie); Beshoffs of Howth (A, 136 m, https://directindex.org/r/beshoffs.ie); Kish Fish café (C, 148 m, https://directindex.org/r/kishfish.ie); Wrights Findlater Howth (B, 204 m, https://directindex.org/r/findlater.ie); Tram Chowder (F, 211 m, https://directindex.org/r/howthmarket.ie); Mamo Restaurant (B, 388 m, https://directindex.org/r/mamorestaurant.ie); 30 Church Street Howth (B, 513 m, https://directindex.org/r/30churchstreethowth.com); King Sitric Seafood Bar & Accommodation (C, 580 m, https://directindex.org/r/kingsitric.ie). ## What assistants answer The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included. The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Dublin and named 94 places. The Brass Monkey wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/dublin/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 63% (46% A or B, 18903 sites); This site 73.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/brassmonkey.ie/agent-view ## Businesses like The Brass Monkey in Dublin | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Dublin | 1226 | 60% | 47% | 73.8% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Dublin | 87 | 74% | 66% | 73.8% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Dublin: Chai Yo (A 95%, https://directindex.org/r/chaiyo.ie); Liath (A 95%, https://directindex.org/r/liathrestaurant.com); Paulies' Pizza (A 95%, https://directindex.org/r/paulies.ie); Beshoffs of Howth (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/beshoffs.ie); Chili Club (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/chiliclub.ie). With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 20th of 1,226 in Dublin, up from 462nd. ## The direct record What agents get for The Brass Monkey, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/brassmonkey.ie - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.brassmonkey.ie/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +35318063746 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/brassmonkey.ie/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - UCP profile (/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol): no - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): no - MCP server card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): no - Ordering vendor that takes agent orders (Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu: 88 prices. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 21 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/brassmonkey.ie - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/brassmonkey.ie/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/brassmonkey.ie/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=brassmonkey.ie&force=1