---
name: sitemap
title: Sitemap
category: discoverability
---

# Sitemap

A sitemap is how you tell a crawler which URLs are canonical and when they changed, without making it discover your site by following links.

## When to use this skill

Use this when a site fails the "Sitemap" check and you need to implement it.

## Goal

Publish a sitemap and reference it from robots.txt

## Pass criteria

A valid XML sitemap is served at /sitemap.xml, or declared with a Sitemap: directive in robots.txt.

## Implementation

This skill covers the diagnosis. The step-by-step implementation prompt is part
of the paid tier and is served per scan by the API — see https://agent-ready.t0ols.com/llms-full.txt.

## Specifications

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

## Verifying

Re-run the scan against the site and confirm the check reports a pass:

    curl -s https://agent-ready.t0ols.com/api/scan \
      -H 'content-type: application/json' \
      -d '{"url":"https://example.com","enabledChecks":["sitemap"]}'