# Crimson & Rye: Agent-Direct Score C (57.4%) Site: http://www.crimsonandrye.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/crimsonandrye.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Crimson & Rye is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Crimson & Rye's website. It can read what Crimson & Rye offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: http://www.crimsonandrye.com/menus - Phone: 2126876692 - Address: 198 E 54th St, 10022, New York ## Nearby, also direct Places near Crimson & Rye that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Gregory’s coffee (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/gregoryscoffee.com - Eclair Bakery (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/eclairbakery-nyc.com - Avocaderia (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/orderavo.com - Tomi Jazz (130 m): https://directindex.org/r/tomijazz.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+9 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) 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 - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **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. ``` # Crimson & Rye > organization in 198 E 54th St, 10022, New York, New York cafes and bars. Phone 2126876692. ## Book or order directly - Menu: http://www.crimsonandrye.com/menus ## About - Website: http://www.crimsonandrye.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 1700 of 4076 in New York cafes and bars. Top 42% 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 | 97% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 22% | no | Nearest places in the index: Gregory’s coffee (A, 61 m, https://directindex.org/r/gregoryscoffee.com); Eclair Bakery (A, 67 m, https://directindex.org/r/eclairbakery-nyc.com); Strangelove Bar NYC (D, 103 m, https://directindex.org/r/strangeloveny.com); Avocaderia (A, 105 m, https://directindex.org/r/orderavo.com); Cello Wine & Cocktail Bistro (B, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/cellony.com); The InKETOble! Cafe (F, 116 m, https://directindex.org/r/inketobletreats.com); Oren's Daily Roast Coffees & Teas (D, 126 m, https://directindex.org/r/orenscoffee.com); Tomi Jazz (D, 128 m, https://directindex.org/r/tomijazz.com); Wildcard Bar (B, 134 m, https://directindex.org/r/wildcardbar.nyc); The Naked Pig (B, 146 m, https://directindex.org/r/thenakedpignyc.com). ## 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. Compared with its peers: Sites using Resy 67% (44% A or B, 2728 sites); This site 57.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/crimsonandrye.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Crimson & Rye in New York cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York cafes and bars | 4076 | 48% | 26% | 57.4% | | Sites using Resy in New York cafes and bars | 304 | 66% | 42% | 57.4% | The best of the sites using Resy in New York cafes and bars: Lucky Tiger (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/luckytigernyc.com); ONE40 (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/one40rooftop.com); American Bar (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/americanbarnyc.com); Aussie Hole In The Wall Cafe & Cocktail Bar (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/holeinthewallnyc.com); The Cactus Shop (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/thecactusshopnyc.com). With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 44th of 4,076 in New York cafes and bars, up from 1700th. ## The direct record What agents get for Crimson & Rye, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/crimsonandrye.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: http://www.crimsonandrye.com/menus (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: 2126876692 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/crimsonandrye.com/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 /menus: business JSON-LD, ordering link (other). ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 15.3 | 25 | | Readable | 16 | 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/crimsonandrye.com - 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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/crimsonandrye.com/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/crimsonandrye.com/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=crimsonandrye.com&force=1