Set robots meta directives correctly
SkillSearchrobots-meta is a skill for AI agents that checks whether webpages tell search engines correctly if they may be indexed. It applies to all HTML pages and is useful when auditing pages that have disappeared from search results or when checking staging vs. production meta tag parity.
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What your AI can do with it
- Check whether HTML pages use robots meta tags correctly
- Audit pages that have disappeared from search results
- Compare staging and production meta tag parity
- Apply checks across all HTML pages
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that can load and use skills.
- Add the robots-meta skill to the agent's available skills.
- Give the agent the HTML pages or URLs to audit.
- Ask it to check indexing meta tags, investigate missing search results, or compare staging and production.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/robots-meta/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
An accidental noindex on a key landing page silently removes it from search results; audit every page's robots directive to avoid invisible ranking losses.
Quick Reference
- Place
<meta name="robots" content="...">in<head>to control indexing per-page - Use
noindexonly on pages that should not appear in search results - Avoid
noindex, nofollowon pages you want crawled for PageRank flow - Crawler-specific tags (
googlebot,bingbot) override the genericrobotstag for that crawler
Check
Inspect <head> for <meta name="robots" content="...">. Verify the content value is intentional (e.g., production pages should not have noindex). Check for conflicting googlebot-specific tags.
Fix
Remove or update the noindex directive from pages that should appear in search results. For pages that must be blocked, confirm noindex is intentional. Remove duplicate or conflicting robots meta tags.
Explain
Explain the difference between robots.txt and meta robots, when each should be used, and why noindex combined with follow still allows link equity to flow.
Code Review
Review metadata generation, rendered HTML, structured data, and response headers related to Set robots meta directives correctly. Flag exact routes or templates where search-facing output violates the rule, and describe how to verify the final page output.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/seo/robots-meta
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Oct 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it when a check applies to all HTML pages, when auditing pages that have disappeared from search results, or when checking staging vs. production meta tag parity.
- What does the skill actually check?
- It checks whether webpages tell search engines correctly if they may be indexed.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
robots-meta- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist
github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist