# House of Books and Friends: Agent-Direct Score D (46.9%)

Site: https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/houseofbooksandfriends.com
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.)
House of Books and Friends is hard for agents to use.

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering path at all.** (+15 points) Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ChatGPT-User.** (+2.5 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "House of Books and Friends",
  "url": "https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "King Street 53",
    "postalCode": "M2 4LQ",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.4809273,
    "longitude": -2.2423184
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# 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: /
```

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

```
# House of Books and Friends

> cafe or coffee shop in King Street 53 M2 4LQ Manchester, Manchester cafes and bars.

## Opening hours

Mo-Sa 09:00-18:00; Su 11:00-17:00

## About

- Website: https://houseofbooksandfriends.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
108 of 235 in Manchester cafes and bars. Top 46% 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 | 96% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 83% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 33% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 21% | no |

Nearest places in the index: All Bar One (D, 20 m, https://directindex.org/r/allbarone.co.uk); Flight Club (B, 56 m, https://directindex.org/r/flightclubdarts.com); Moose Coffee (C, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/moosecoffee.co); Lily's Bar @ 1761 (F, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/1761mcr.co.uk); North Westward Ho (B, 112 m, https://directindex.org/r/northwestwardho.co.uk); Blinker (F, 133 m, https://directindex.org/r/blinkerbar.co.uk); Blank Street Coffee (B, 179 m, https://directindex.org/r/blankstreet.com); 200° Coffee (D, 206 m, https://directindex.org/r/200degs.com); T4 Tea For U (C, 304 m, https://directindex.org/r/t4.co.uk); Panacea Manchester (F, 318 m, https://directindex.org/r/panaceamanchester.co.uk).

## 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.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 47%, 2026-10-14 47%.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (26% A or B, 35830 sites); This site 46.9%.

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 22.5 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/houseofbooksandfriends.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- 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: yes

Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=houseofbooksandfriends.com&force=1