# The Brooklyn Tree: Agent-Direct Score D (46.6%) Site: http://thebrooklyntree.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebrooklyntree.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Brooklyn Tree is hard for agents to use. Some AI assistants are turned away by The Brooklyn Tree's website. It can read what The Brooklyn Tree offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://order.toasttab.com/online/the-brooklyn-tree-188-montrose-ave (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: http://www.thebrooklyntree.com/the-brooklyn-tree-menu/ - Phone: +19179090307 - Address: 188 Montrose Ave, 11206-2103, Brooklyn - Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Brooklyn Tree that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Ro's Diner (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/rosdiner.com - Gwynnett Street (690 m): https://directindex.org/r/gwynnettst.com - 983 Bushwick's Living Room (860 m): https://directindex.org/r/983bk.com - Gertie (1.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/gertie.nyc ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429), ClaudeBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. ``` # The Brooklyn Tree > local business (american) in 188 Montrose Ave, 11206-2103, Brooklyn, New York. Phone +19179090307. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/the-brooklyn-tree-188-montrose-ave (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: http://www.thebrooklyntree.com/the-brooklyn-tree-menu/ ## About - Website: http://thebrooklyntree.com/ - 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. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. - **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 6700 of 11171 in New York. Top 60% 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 | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Win Son (F, 130 m, https://directindex.org/r/winsonbrooklyn.com); Ro's Diner (C, 144 m, https://directindex.org/r/rosdiner.com); East Wick (F, 262 m, https://directindex.org/r/eastwickny.com); Gwynnett Street (B, 687 m, https://directindex.org/r/gwynnettst.com); Blanca (D, 730 m, https://directindex.org/r/blancanyc.com); 983 Bushwick's Living Room (C, 863 m, https://directindex.org/r/983bk.com); OAK Restaurant & Wine Bar (F, 919 m, https://directindex.org/r/oakwinebar.com); Taste of Heaven (D, 1089 m, https://directindex.org/r/tasteofheavenbk.com); Stay Fresh Grill (F, 1092 m, https://directindex.org/r/stayfreshgrill.com); Gertie (B, 1284 m, https://directindex.org/r/gertie.nyc). ## 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 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. The Brooklyn Tree wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using Toast 73% (62% A or B, 6097 sites); This site 46.6%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thebrooklyntree.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Brooklyn Tree in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11171 | 52% | 34% | 46.6% | | Sites built with WordPress in New York | 1873 | 61% | 37% | 46.6% | | Sites using Toast in New York | 618 | 74% | 62% | 46.6% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Toast in New York | 113 | 73% | 56% | 46.6% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Toast in New York: Kokomo (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/kokomonyc.com); Squisito Pizza (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/squisitopizzaandpasta.com); Via 13 (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/via13nyc.com); Ainslie (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/ainsliebk.com); Black Tap (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/blacktap.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 84.6%. That would be 1567th of 11,171 in New York, up from 6700th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Brooklyn Tree, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebrooklyntree.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/the-brooklyn-tree-188-montrose-ave (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Menu: http://www.thebrooklyntree.com/the-brooklyn-tree-menu/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +19179090307 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebrooklyntree.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/thebrooklyntree.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 (Toast): yes - Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/ ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 13.3 | 25 | | Readable | 7 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/thebrooklyntree.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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thebrooklyntree.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/thebrooklyntree.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thebrooklyntree.com&force=1