# Canal Boat Restaurant: Agent-Direct Score C (66.6%)

Site: http://www.canalboatrestaurant.ie/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/canalboatrestaurant.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.)
Canal Boat Restaurant is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Canal Boat Restaurant's website. It can read what Canal Boat Restaurant offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Bókun.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://widgets.bokun.io/assets/javascripts/apps/build/BokunWidgetsLoader.js?bookingChannelUUID=09e66992-b719-4f4e-afda-9ab0be6453b8 (through bokun acting for the business)
- Menu: https://canalboatrestaurant.ie/menu/
- Phone: +35314731000
- Address: Grand Canal Jetty Mespil Road Dublin 4 DUBLIN 4, D04 V4H9, Dublin
- Its menu mentions: vegan options, allergens
- WhatsApp: a link on the site

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Canal Boat Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Lock Four (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/mespilhotel.com
- Yoi Izakaya (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/yoiizakaya.ie
- Kerala Kitchen (250 m): https://directindex.org/r/keralakitchen.ie
- eathos Dublin (270 m): https://directindex.org/r/eathosdublin.com
- Forest Avenue (270 m): https://directindex.org/r/forestavenuerestaurant.ie

## What to fix first
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site.

```
# Canal Boat Restaurant

> restaurant in Grand Canal Jetty Mespil Road Dublin 4 DUBLIN 4, D04 V4H9, Dublin, Dublin. Phone +35314731000.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://widgets.bokun.io/assets/javascripts/apps/build/BokunWidgetsLoader.js?bookingChannelUUID=09e66992-b719-4f4e-afda-9ab0be6453b8 (through bokun acting for the business)
- Menu: https://canalboatrestaurant.ie/menu/

## About

- Website: http://www.canalboatrestaurant.ie/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **Booking through bokun on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- **Bókun works with agents through its partners.** Bókun lists no traveller terms; its API terms have no bot clause and let developers use the API only to build applications for a vendor's use under a Bókun partner or services agreement. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.bokun.io/legal/api-terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
631 of 1221 in Dublin. Top 52% 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% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 58% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 77% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Meat Mafia BBQ (F, 37 m, https://directindex.org/r/meatmafiabbq.ie); Lock Four (B, 137 m, https://directindex.org/r/mespilhotel.com); Keshk Cafe Restaurant (F, 193 m, https://directindex.org/r/keshk.ie); Yoi Izakaya (A, 200 m, https://directindex.org/r/yoiizakaya.ie); Kerala Kitchen (A, 245 m, https://directindex.org/r/keralakitchen.ie); Zakura Izakaya (D, 247 m, https://directindex.org/r/zakura.ie); Bloom Brasserie (F, 255 m, https://directindex.org/r/clickandcollection.com); eathos Dublin (A, 265 m, https://directindex.org/r/eathosdublin.com); Forest Avenue (B, 268 m, https://directindex.org/r/forestavenuerestaurant.ie); Suesey Street (C, 289 m, https://directindex.org/r/sueseystreet.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 23 everyday questions about Dublin and named 142 places. Canal Boat Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/dublin/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using Bókun 63% (45% A or B, 120 sites); This site 66.6%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/canalboatrestaurant.ie/agent-view

## Businesses like Canal Boat Restaurant in Dublin

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Dublin | 1221 | 60% | 48% | 66.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Dublin | 428 | 69% | 58% | 66.6% |
| Sites using Bókun in Dublin | 1 | 67% | 0% | 66.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using Bókun in Dublin | 1 | 67% | 0% | 66.6% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Dublin: Kari (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/kari.ie); Little Pyg (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/littlepyg.com); Poppadom at Home (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/poppadom.ie); eathos Dublin (A 96.9%, https://directindex.org/r/eathosdublin.com); Bison Bar & BBQ (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bisonbar.ie).

With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 175th of 1,221 in Dublin, up from 631st.

## The direct record
What agents get for Canal Boat Restaurant, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/canalboatrestaurant.ie
- Book: https://widgets.bokun.io/assets/javascripts/apps/build/BokunWidgetsLoader.js?bookingChannelUUID=09e66992-b719-4f4e-afda-9ab0be6453b8 (vendor on own site: Bókun; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://canalboatrestaurant.ie/menu/ (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +35314731000
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/canalboatrestaurant.ie/book, https://directindex.org/go/canalboatrestaurant.ie/menu
- Agents and people followed 2 direct links to this business this month (2 by AI agents).

## 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
- Vendor terms for agents, Bókun: Through partners. Bókun lists no traveller terms; its API terms have no bot clause and let developers use the API only to build applications for a vendor's use under a Bókun partner or services agreement. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.bokun.io/legal/api-terms

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu/: 68 prices.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 11.3 | 25 |
| Readable | 22 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/canalboatrestaurant.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: yes
- 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: yes
- OAuth protected resource metadata: yes
- 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/canalboatrestaurant.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/canalboatrestaurant.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=canalboatrestaurant.ie&force=1