# The Mounting Stone: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%) Site: http://www.themountingstone.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/themountingstone.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Mounting Stone is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Mounting Stone's website. It can read what The Mounting Stone offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.themountingstone.co.uk/menu - Phone: 0161 439 7563 - Address: Woodford Road 8 ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Mounting Stone that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - The Bubble Room (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/thebubbleroom.co.uk - Outside The Box Board Game Cafe (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/outsidetheboxltd.co.uk - Governors House (1.6 km): https://directindex.org/r/greeneking.co.uk - The Aviator (1.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/theaviatorpub.co.uk - The Stables Kitchen (1.9 km): https://directindex.org/r/stockport.gov.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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 Mounting Stone > bar or pub in Woodford Road 8, Manchester cafes and bars. Phone 0161 439 7563. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.themountingstone.co.uk/menu ## About - Website: http://www.themountingstone.co.uk/ - 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. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 634 of 1309 in Manchester cafes and bars. Top 48% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 86% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 20% | no | Nearest places in the index: The Bubble Room (C, 60 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebubbleroom.co.uk); Outside The Box Board Game Cafe (B, 121 m, https://directindex.org/r/outsidetheboxltd.co.uk); Plumcake Cafe (F, 133 m, https://directindex.org/r/bramhallvillagesquare.co.uk); The Damson Tree Cafe (B, 1039 m, https://directindex.org/r/thedamsontree.co.uk); Governors House (A, 1648 m, https://directindex.org/r/greeneking.co.uk); The Aviator (A, 1735 m, https://directindex.org/r/theaviatorpub.co.uk); Wild Bean Cafe (F, 1825 m, https://directindex.org/r/bp.com); The Stables Kitchen (D, 1877 m, https://directindex.org/r/stockport.gov.uk); A Bite 2 Eat (F, 1979 m, https://directindex.org/r/abite2eat.co.uk); Three Bears (B, 2313 m, https://directindex.org/r/perugaevents.co.uk). ## 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 12 everyday questions about Manchester cafes and bars and named 52 places. The Mounting Stone wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/manchester-cafes-bars/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Duda 41% (9% A or B, 4087 sites); This site 53.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/themountingstone.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like The Mounting Stone in Manchester cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars | 1309 | 49% | 24% | 53.8% | | Sites built with Duda in Manchester cafes and bars | 6 | 21% | 0% | 53.8% | The best of the sites built with Duda in Manchester cafes and bars: Suburb (F 33.8%, https://directindex.org/r/suburbcafe.co.uk); Hampton and Vous (F 26.2%, https://directindex.org/r/hamptonandvouis.co.uk); Steam cafe (F 4.6%, https://directindex.org/r/dzinr.com); The Chiverton Tap (F 4.6%, https://directindex.org/r/thechivertontap.co.uk); St James Social Centre (F 0%, https://directindex.org/r/orrellsaintjames.wigan.sch.uk). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 7th of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars, up from 634th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Mounting Stone, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/themountingstone.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.themountingstone.co.uk/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: 0161 439 7563 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/themountingstone.co.uk/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 | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 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/themountingstone.co.uk - 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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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/themountingstone.co.uk/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/themountingstone.co.uk/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=themountingstone.co.uk&force=1