harvardartmuseums.org is hard for agents to use.
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 40% → 40%
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
26 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Not Ready
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: no change in the findings.
Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a ticket or booking page. How to fix it
These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it
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. How to fix it
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
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 Boston tours, attractions and museums. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.
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": "Museum",
"name": "Busch-Reisinger Museum",
"url": "https://harvardartmuseums.org/tag/Busch-Reisinger%20Museum",
"telephone": "617-495-9400",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 42.3743515,
"longitude": -71.1143368
}
}
</script>
Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.
# 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: /
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Busch-Reisinger Museum > museum in Boston tours, attractions and museums. Phone 617-495-9400. ## About - Website: https://harvardartmuseums.org/tag/Busch-Reisinger%20Museum - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Top 59% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: MassArt Art Museum D, Quincy Historical Society Museum & Library D. Just below: Boston Fire Museum F, Boston Marathon Finish Line F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 20% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 20% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 50% | no |
The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Somerville Historical Museum | 1.6 km | B | yes |
| Tech Model Railroad Club | 2.0 km | F | no |
| Charles Riverboat Company | 3.2 km | A | yes |
| Gibson House | 4.0 km | C | yes |
| The Mapparium | 4.0 km | D | no |
| Boston Marathon Finish Line | 4.0 km | F | no |
| New England Historic Genealogical Society | 4.1 km | D | no |
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Boston tours, attractions and museums | 56 | 43% | 13% | 40% |
Boston Tea Party - Ships and Museum A 86.3% · Charles Riverboat Company A 86.2% · Blue Nile Livery B 77.5% · Somerville Historical Museum B 75% · Boston Children's Museum B 73.8%
With the three fixes above (No way to buy tickets online; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User; No tickets and prices found) the score would be about 86.2%: 2nd of 56 in Boston tours, attractions and museums, up from 33rd.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-14 found no booking or ordering link on harvardartmuseums.org or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/harvardartmuseums.org, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/boston-tours/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | 617-495-9400 |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
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.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | no how |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
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.
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/harvardartmuseums.org"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/harvardartmuseums.org.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.