ARD PUBLISH CHECKLIST

Make the catalog actually crawlable.

A valid manifest is only useful when registries can retrieve it. Check the document, endpoint, headers, and public access before asking a discovery service to ingest your resources.

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Manifest

• Use specVersion: "1.0".
• Anchor every urn:air: identifier to a domain you control.
• Provide exactly one of url or data for each entry.
• Add two to five representative natural-language queries.
• Never include API keys, bearer tokens, or private implementation details.

Endpoint

• Serve /.well-known/ai-catalog.json over HTTPS.
• Return Content-Type: application/json.
• Return Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * for crawler access.
• Do not require a login, session cookie, or JavaScript rendering.
• Keep robots.txt and edge security rules from blocking registry crawlers.