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Sitemap present & fresh

discovery.sitemap · Discovery · 4 pts · required

Goal

Can an agent discover and trust you?

Whether agents can crawl you, find you in the registries and searches they check, and trust what they find.

How we test

Resolved the sitemap from robots.txt or /sitemap.xml, validated XML, and checked lastmod freshness.

How to pass

Publish /sitemap.xml, reference it from robots.txt, and include <lastmod> dates so agents can tell what's current.

Spec

https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html ↗

Verify a fix

curl -X POST /api/scan/checks \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url": "yourdomain.com", "checkIds": ["discovery.sitemap"]}'