# Sitemap

Category: Agent readiness
Version: 1.0.0

## Goal
Maintain a sitemap of canonical URLs and reference it from robots.txt so crawlers find new and changed pages.

## Issue
The audited site did not satisfy the Sitemap readiness check.

## Fix
Generate /sitemap.xml listing your canonical URLs (split into a sitemap index if you exceed 50,000 URLs or 50 MB). Refresh it whenever you publish, retire, or rename a page, and reference it from /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive so crawlers find it without guessing.

## Validation
- Confirm content types, payload shape, and discoverability from the public web surface.
- Verify against fresh public evidence, not only local source changes.
- Re-run the relevant isitready.dev scan before claiming the issue is closed.

## Copyable Fix Prompt
```text
Outcome: make this single public-readiness issue pass for the audited site.

Goal: Sitemap for https://example.com

Issue: The audited site did not satisfy the Sitemap readiness check.

Fix: Generate /sitemap.xml listing your canonical URLs (split into a sitemap index if you exceed 50,000 URLs or 50 MB). Refresh it whenever you publish, retire, or rename a page, and reference it from /robots.txt with a Sitemap: directive so crawlers find it without guessing.

Skill: /.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md

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

Validation: Confirm content types, payload shape, and discoverability from the public web surface.

Requirements: preserve existing product behavior, add or update relevant tests, and validate public response shape/content type where applicable.

When done, tell the user to re-run the public scan at https://isitready.dev so they can verify this issue now passes. Do not claim it is fixed until a fresh report confirms.
```