# Le Sel French Bistro: Agent-Direct Score A (93.8%) Site: https://leseldc.com/reservations Report: https://directindex.org/r/leseldc.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Le Sel French Bistro is ready for agents. An AI assistant can open Le Sel French Bistro's website. It can read what Le Sel French Bistro offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://leseldc.com/reservations (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://leseldc.com/menus - Phone: +12022346390 - Address: 1315 16th St NW, 20036, Washington - Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes ## Nearby, also direct Places near Le Sel French Bistro that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Let Desales (490 m): https://directindex.org/r/ledesales.com - Le Diplomate (520 m): https://directindex.org/r/lediplomatedc.com - Barbouzard (760 m): https://directindex.org/r/barbouzard.com - The Lafayette (870 m): https://directindex.org/r/hayadams.com - Opaline (900 m): https://directindex.org/r/opalinedc.com ## What to fix first - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+1 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. ``` # Le Sel French Bistro > local business (french) in 1315 16th St NW, 20036, Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +12022346390. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://leseldc.com/reservations (on the business's own site) - Menu: https://leseldc.com/menus ## About - Website: https://leseldc.com/reservations - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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 (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 73 of 1686 in Washington, DC. Top 4% 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 | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 19% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Amélie DC Bistro & Wine Bar (A, 399 m, https://directindex.org/r/ameliewinebar.com); Bar Japonais (C, 409 m, https://directindex.org/r/katsumidc.com); Let Desales (A, 487 m, https://directindex.org/r/ledesales.com); Le Diplomate (B, 524 m, https://directindex.org/r/lediplomatedc.com); The Pembroke (D, 663 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepembrokedc.com); Barbouzard (B, 756 m, https://directindex.org/r/barbouzard.com); The Lafayette (C, 866 m, https://directindex.org/r/hayadams.com); Opaline (A, 897 m, https://directindex.org/r/opalinedc.com); Bresca (A, 901 m, https://directindex.org/r/brescadc.com); Bonne Vie Cafe and Bistro (B, 957 m, https://directindex.org/r/bonneviedc.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. The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Washington, DC and named 140 places. Le Sel French Bistro wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/washington/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 32150 sites); This site 93.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/leseldc.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Le Sel French Bistro in Washington, DC | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC | 1686 | 56% | 40% | 93.8% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Washington, DC | 227 | 74% | 64% | 93.8% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Washington, DC: MXDC Cocina Mexicana (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/mxdcrestaurant.com); Chez Billy (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/chezbillysud.com); Johnny Pistola's (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/johnnypistolas.com); Karravaan (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/karravaan.com); Le Chat Noir (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/lechatnoirrestaurant.com). With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 45th of 1,686 in Washington, DC, up from 73rd. ## The direct record What agents get for Le Sel French Bistro, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/leseldc.com - Book: https://leseldc.com/reservations (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://leseldc.com/menus (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +12022346390 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/leseldc.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/leseldc.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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 21 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 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/leseldc.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 Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/leseldc.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/leseldc.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=leseldc.com&force=1