# The Yarn Cake: Agent-Direct Score F (35.4%)

Site: https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/theyarncake.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
The Yarn Cake is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of The Yarn Cake, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/products/knit-night (on the business's own site)
- Phone: +44 141 946 5305

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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

## 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": "The Yarn Cake",
  "url": "https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 141 946 5305",
  "email": "info@theyarncake.co.uk",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Queen Margaret Drive 148",
    "postalCode": "G20 8NY",
    "addressLocality": "Glasgow"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.8810363,
    "longitude": -4.2835605
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-We 10:00-17:00; Th 10:00-21:00; Fr-Su 10:00-17:00; Mo off",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "coffee shop"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/products/knit-night",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/products/knit-night",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours
- **Booking on your own site.** Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: The site could not be read at all
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away; Structured data was incomplete; No menu or price list

## Where it stands
193 of 199 in Glasgow cafes and bars. Top 97% 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 | 100% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 90% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 80% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 60% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 5% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Blank Street Coffee (B, 863 m, https://directindex.org/r/blankstreet.com); Starbucks (F, 882 m, https://directindex.org/r/starbucks.com); SugarFall Patisserie (A, 1131 m, https://directindex.org/r/sugarfall.co.uk); Gathering Ground (D, 1530 m, https://directindex.org/r/gatheringground.org); Ottoman Coffeehouse (B, 1846 m, https://directindex.org/r/ottomancoffeehouse.co.uk); The Hidden Lane Tearoom (A, 1881 m, https://directindex.org/r/hiddenlanetearoom.com); Stereo (F, 2727 m, https://directindex.org/r/stereocafebar.com); Gordon Street Coffee (F, 2809 m, https://directindex.org/r/gordonstcoffee.co.uk); Riverhill Coffee Bar (B, 2863 m, https://directindex.org/r/riverhillcoffee.co.uk); Tim Hortons (D, 3001 m, https://directindex.org/r/timhortons.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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Shopify 58% (37% A or B, 1345 sites); This site 35.4%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/theyarncake.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like The Yarn Cake in Glasgow cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Glasgow cafes and bars | 199 | 49% | 27% | 35.4% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Glasgow cafes and bars | 6 | 28% | 0% | 35.4% |

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Glasgow cafes and bars: Cake Box (C 63.1%, https://directindex.org/r/cakebox.com); Hinba (F 35.4%, https://directindex.org/r/hinba.co.uk); Gloria Jean's (F 20%, https://directindex.org/r/gloriajeans.com); Spitfire Espresso (F 12.3%, https://directindex.org/r/spitfireespresso.com); Gordon Street Coffee (F 0%, https://directindex.org/r/gordonstcoffee.co.uk).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 199 in Glasgow cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Yarn Cake, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/theyarncake.co.uk
- Book: https://www.theyarncake.co.uk/products/knit-night (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Tu-We 10:00-17:00; Th 10:00-21:00; Fr-Su 10:00-17:00; Mo off (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 141 946 5305
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/theyarncake.co.uk/book

## 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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

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

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/theyarncake.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/theyarncake.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=theyarncake.co.uk&force=1