state.gov is partly visible to agents.
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39 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. 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
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 Washington, DC tours, attractions and museums. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress 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": "National Museum of American Diplomacy",
"url": "https://diplomacy.state.gov/",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "21st Street Northwest 330",
"postalCode": "20006",
"addressLocality": "Washington"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 38.8948152,
"longitude": -77.047059
}
}
</script>
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# National Museum of American Diplomacy > museum in 21st Street Northwest 330 20006 Washington, Washington, DC tours, attractions and museums. ## About - Website: https://diplomacy.state.gov/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Top 16% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: International Spy Museum C, National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum C. Just below: U.S. National Archives C, The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum C.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 90% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 10% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 90% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 0% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |
The top tenth is the 10 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 36,794 sites | 58% | 28% | 60% |
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interior Museum | 378 m | D | no |
| Dacor Bacon House Museum | 538 m | D | yes |
| Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream | 1.2 km | D | yes |
| National Children's Museum | 1.5 km | D | no |
| U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum | 1.5 km | C | yes |
| Almas Temple | 1.6 km | C | no |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts | 1.6 km | C | no |
| Planet Word | 1.7 km | B | yes |
| Anderson House | 1.8 km | D | no |
| The Phillips Collection | 1.9 km | F | no |
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Washington, DC tours, attractions and museums | 62 | 39% | 3% | 60% |
| Built with WordPress in Washington, DC tours, attractions and museums | 21 | 51% | 5% | 60% |
Planet Word B 78.8% · President Lincoln's Cottage C 68.8% · Dumbarton House C 60% · The Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum C 58.8% · Museum of Illusions C 58.5%
With the three fixes above (Tickets through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete; No tickets and prices found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 62 in Washington, DC tours, attractions and museums.
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 state.gov or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/state.gov, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington-tours/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | none on record |
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 | yes |
| 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/state.gov"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/state.gov.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" 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.