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Summary

  • Adds the Google Search Console verification meta tag (google-site-verification) to the homepage head. Once deployed, the maintainer can verify the https://ducksss.github.io/codex-profiles/ property and submit the sitemap. I used the meta-tag method rather than Google's HTML file, because test/site/geo-test.mjs requires every .html file in docs/ to be a real page listed in the sitemap. Google accepts either method.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md used to describe https://ducksss.github.io/robots.txt as a 404. It now says the file lives in the new user-site repo Ducksss/ducksss.github.io. That repo holds only robots.txt, which allows every crawler and points to this sitemap. The section also says to keep Allow: / for the account's other project sites and to keep the local template in step.
  • The comment in docs/robots.txt now points at the same repo. The template's directives match the live root file line for line.

Testing

  • make check passes, including ShellCheck. It started before the meta tag was added; node test/site/geo-test.mjs passes on the final tree, and that's the only test that reads the page head.
  • Compared the template's directives with the live https://ducksss.github.io/robots.txt: identical.
  • After the user-site repo went live, these all return 200: /robots.txt, /codex-profiles/ with its sitemap.xml and llms.txt, /Portfolio/ and /stardusts/.

Scope and compatibility

  • Affected scope: project website head and contributor docs only. No CLI, app default or Desktop profile changes.
  • Compatibility impact: none. Search Console verification needs this deployed with the Pages workflow dispatch before the maintainer clicks Verify.

Checklist

  • I ran make check; if the environment lacks ShellCheck, I ran
    make test and documented the missing lint result instead.
  • I did not add code that reads, copies, prints, parses, uploads, compares,
    or migrates auth tokens or ChatGPT cookies.
  • Desktop changes preserve the stock app default session and use the
    original signed app bundle. (No Desktop changes.)
  • I did not claim that CLI and Desktop account equality can be inspected or verified.
  • I updated documentation for user-facing behavior changes.

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  • Documentation
    • Updated crawler guidance to identify where the site’s root robots.txt is maintained and how crawler policies should be kept consistent across project sites.
    • Clarified that sitemap submission to verified search engine properties is still needed for indexing.
  • Site Configuration
    • Added a Google Search Console verification tag.
    • Updated the robots.txt template comment to point to the corresponding host-root file.

- Adds the Google Search Console verification meta tag to the homepage,
  so the maintainer can verify https://ducksss.github.io/codex-profiles/
  and submit the sitemap. A meta tag is used instead of Google's HTML
  file because the GEO test requires every HTML file in docs/ to be a
  real page listed in the sitemap.
- CONTRIBUTING.md now says the host-root robots.txt lives in the
  Ducksss/ducksss.github.io user-site repository, which allows every
  crawler and advertises this sitemap, instead of describing it as a
  404. The docs/robots.txt comment points at the same repository.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds a Google Search Console verification tag and updates crawler guidance to identify the host-root robots.txt location, describe its policy, and note sitemap submission requirements.

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Search Console verification metadata
docs/index.html
Adds a Google Search Console verification meta tag to the document head.
Crawler policy guidance
CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/robots.txt
Updates the guidance to identify the host-root robots.txt as the crawler policy source and describe policy synchronization and sitemap submission. The template comment now points to the user-site repository.

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- Around line 147-148: Reword the sitemap guidance in the indexing documentation
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Comment thread CONTRIBUTING.md Resolved
Google treats a sitemap as a hint and Bing does not guarantee indexing
from one, so CONTRIBUTING.md now recommends console submission for
discovery and coverage reports instead of calling it necessary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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