The Direct Index
Report · Cork cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Costigan’s

costiganspub.ie is hard for agents to use.

Book directly: costiganspub.ie/parties/ on the business's own site

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 19% → 42%

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

D
41.5%

27 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

5

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed No booking or ordering path at all.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  4. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Agents and browsers downrank or refuse it.

  5. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Cork cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Costigan’s",
  "url": "http://costiganspub.ie",
  "telephone": "+353 21 427 3350",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Washington Street 11",
    "postalCode": "T12 N768",
    "addressLocality": "Cork"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.897368,
    "longitude": -8.4802044
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "http://costiganspub.ie/parties/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://costiganspub.ie/parties/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Costigan’s

> bar or pub in Washington Street 11 T12 N768 Cork, Cork cafes and bars. Phone +353 21 427 3350.

## Book or order directly

- Book: http://costiganspub.ie/parties/ (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: http://costiganspub.ie
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

55 of 79 in Cork cafes and bars

Top 70% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Arty’s Bar D, Bierhaus D. Just below: The Roundy D, Black Dog Saloon & Mezcalaria F.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain80%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML70%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours20%no
Have an llms.txt10%no

The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 36,926 sites58%29%41.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Woolshed Baa & Grill grill101 mDno
Dwyer’s of Cork122 mCyes
John Readen & Son150 mByes
The Raven214 mCyes
Black Dog Saloon & Mezcalaria246 mFno
Gloria Jean's coffee_shop281 mCno
Café Gusto breakfast, coffee_shop, sandwich307 mCyes
The Roundy316 mDno
The Old Town Whiskey Bar at Bodega337 mFno
The Woodford361 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Costigan’s in Cork cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Cork cafes and bars7952%18%41.5%
Built with WordPress in Cork cafes and bars3358%24%41.5%

The best of Built with WordPress in Cork cafes and bars

Comix A 100% · Fitzgerald’s Bar B 81.5% · John Readen & Son B 81.3% · Franciscan Well Brew Pub B 78.8% · The White Horse B 78.8%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 90.8%: 3rd of 79 in Cork cafes and bars, up from 55th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Costigan’s

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/costiganspub.ie, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/cork-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookcostiganspub.ie/parties/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+353 21 427 3350

Stable links that count: /go/costiganspub.ie/book answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/costiganspub.ie"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/costiganspub.ie.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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