TEC-001 · Technical Eligibility

Require public accessibility

• Baseline
• Structural
• IF
• THEN
• ELSE
• AND

The decision

• IF
  • a page is intended for search visibility
• THEN
  • ensure users and permitted crawlers can request its essential content
• ELSE
  • exclude it intentionally

Primary metric

accessible-priority-URL rate

Guardrail

private or sensitive exposure

Reason

Makes the decision explicit, measurable, and reversible where possible.

LAKA levels

• Baseline
• Structural

Operators

• IF
• THEN
• ELSE
• AND

Governs gates

• technical feasibility

Source

04-IF-ELSE-AND-OR-RULEBOOK.md — TEC-001 — Require public accessibility

The other eleven rules in Technical Eligibility

• TEC-002 Use correct response states IF a canonical page is healthy and available Structural
• TEC-003 Validate rendered main content IF essential content or links depend on JavaScript Structural
• TEC-004 Separate crawling from indexing controls IF the goal is to keep a page out of search results Structural
• TEC-005 Maintain canonical coherence IF multiple URLs represent substantially the same content Structural
• TEC-006 Keep sitemaps canonical and current IF a URL is important, canonical, and intended for indexing Structural
• TEC-007 Redirect to the closest valid successor IF a URL permanently moves or is consolidated Structural
• TEC-008 Treat not-found pages intentionally IF a resource no longer exists and has no valid replacement Structural
• TEC-009 Control faceted and parameter volume IF filters, sorting, search, tracking, or session parameters create many near-duplicate URLs Structural
• TEC-010 Preserve content parity IF mobile, desktop, locale, or rendered versions differ Structural
• TEC-011 Prioritize real-user performance IF field performance or business outcomes show latency, instability, or interaction problems Minor
• TEC-012 Scale crawl work to site size and change rate IF the site is very large, rapidly changing, or shows crawl/index waste Structural