# Instituto Cervantes: Agent-Direct Score D (47.7%)

Site: https://www.cervantes.es/default.htm
Report: https://directindex.org/r/cervantes.org
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Instituto Cervantes is hard for agents to use.
An AI assistant can open the website of Instituto Cervantes. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through siele.org.

## What to fix first
- **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Tickets through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "TouristAttraction",
  "name": "Instituto Cervantes",
  "url": "https://www.cervantes.es/default.htm",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "addressLocality": "Madrid"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.4195625,
    "longitude": -3.6953548
  }
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Instituto Cervantes

> tourist attraction in Madrid, Madrid tours, attractions and museums.

## About

- Website: https://www.cervantes.es/default.htm
- 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 key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.

## Where it stands
39 of 78 in Madrid tours, attractions and museums. Top 50% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 90% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 60% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 0% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Arcadia Viajes Madrid (D, 338 m, https://directindex.org/r/arcadia-viajes.com); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (B, 372 m, https://directindex.org/r/museothyssen.org); Museum of Senses (B, 383 m, https://directindex.org/r/museumofsenses.es); Destinia.com (D, 432 m, https://directindex.org/r/destinia.com); Explora Acción (F, 447 m, https://directindex.org/r/explora-accion.com); Espacio Fundación Telefónica (C, 537 m, https://directindex.org/r/fundaciontelefonica.com); Parroquia de Santa Bárbara (F, 555 m, https://directindex.org/r/parroquiadesantabarbara.com); Museo de Cera (C, 672 m, https://directindex.org/r/museodecera.com); Museo Arqueológico Nacional (C, 696 m, https://directindex.org/r/man.es); Tablao Flamenco 1911 (C, 733 m, https://directindex.org/r/tablaoflamenco1911.com).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

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

## Businesses like Instituto Cervantes in Madrid tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Madrid tours, attractions and museums | 78 | 44% | 8% | 47.7% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Madrid tours, attractions and museums: Museum of Senses (B 83.4%, https://directindex.org/r/museumofsenses.es); Carisma World (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/carismaworld.com); Casa Árabe (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/casaarabe.es); Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/patrimonionacional.es); Museo de las ilusiones (B 70.8%, https://directindex.org/r/museumofillusions.es).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Tickets through an unrecognised third party; No tickets and prices found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 78 in Madrid tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Instituto Cervantes, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cervantes.org
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record

## 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): not measured
- ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured
- 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): not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 0 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/cervantes.org
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- 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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/cervantes.org/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/cervantes.org/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=cervantes.org&force=1
