The Direct Index
Report · Oxford cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Hanks Bar

hanksbar.co.uk is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Hanks Bar directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Tue 22:00–03:00 · Wed–Thu 21:00–03:00 · Fri–Sat 20:00–03:00 · Sun closed

Queen Street 36-37 OX1 1ER Oxford · +44 1865 242 192

Nearby, also direct

Places near Hanks Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Hanks Bar's website. What Hanks Bar offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

90.8%

59 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 12 everyday questions about Oxford cafes and bars and named 47 places. Hanks Bar wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Hanks Bar compares

Where it stands

13 of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars

Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: GAIL's A, Aromi A. Just below: Jacobs & Field A, Thirsty Meeples A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML89%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%yes
Have an llms.txt50%yes

The top 10% are the 18 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 42,583 sites54%31%90.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Coffee Hole coffee_shop87 mFno
Greens Cafe sandwich87 mCyes
Yi Fang bubble_tea91 mDno
Starbucks coffee_shop97 mFno
Art Café british102 mBno
Black Sheep Coffee coffee_shop103 mCyes
Modern Art Oxford Café coffee_shop111 mCyes
Paul119 mCyes
The Cow and Creek128 mAyes
The Story Museum Cafe british130 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hanks Bar in Oxford cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Oxford cafes and bars17458%34%90.8%
Sites built with Wix in Oxford cafes and bars1475%64%90.8%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Oxford cafes and bars

Belota Cafe A 95.4% · The Gardeners Arms A 95.4% · Jacobs & Field A 90.8% · The Coffee Guild A 87.7% · The Oxo Bar A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Oxford cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wix · contact page /hanks-bar-contact: nothing new; booking page /hanks-bar-booking: nothing new

Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score A

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Hanks Bar

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/hanksbar.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/oxford-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.hanksbar.co.uk/hanks-bar-booking own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.hanksbar.co.uk/_files/ugd/d1b9fe_82509d52c9704991b45d86c pdffrom the scan
HoursMo-Tu 22:00-03:00; We-Th 21:00-03:00; Fr-Sa 20:00-03:00; Su off (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+44 1865 242 192

Stable links that count: /go/hanksbar.co.uk/book, /go/hanksbar.co.uk/menu 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
yes
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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtyes
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 businessyes