Govern outward discoverability

Core meaning

Capability purpose: Let public reachability and active discovery be governed independently.
Meaningful outcome: A representation has an explicit hidden, index-eligible, promoted, or equivalent discoverability state with provenance and current enforcement intent.
Boundaries — includes: discoverability state, index eligibility, listing and sitemap intent, promotion state, inheritance and override, effective time, revision, withdrawal, and audit evidence.
Boundaries — excludes: granting access, defining usage rights, publishing content, search-ranking implementation, analytics, and guaranteeing removal from third-party indexes.
Terms and concepts: discoverability describes whether a representation may be found beyond its direct locator; it is not the same as being accessible.

Actor: The owner or an explicitly authorized publication actor.
Command / intent: Hide, permit indexing of, promote, or withdraw promotion for an outward representation.
Current state: The representation, current visibility/access state, discoverability state, inheritance, sensitivity, and authority can be determined.
Policies / invariants: Discoverability cannot expand access or rights; hidden does not imply inaccessible; promotion requires sufficient publication authority; changes and inherited defaults remain traceable; third-party propagation limits are disclosed.
Transition: Validate the requested state against exposure policy, update discoverability metadata and connected mechanisms, and record the result.
Result: A current discoverability state or a reasoned rejection with any propagation limitations.
Events / effects: May update sitemaps, indexes, listings, machine-readable directives, or promotion queues.
Unknowns: Universal propagation times and verification requirements across search engines and agent indexes are not established.

Keep newly public material hidden or unlisted until promotion is explicitly intended.

Evidence needed to claim successful de-indexing or promotion across external systems remains profile-specific.

Statement	Semantic class	Evidence status	Source / note
Discoverability is independently governed from visibility and access, allowing a public representation to remain unlisted.	rule/invariant	sourced	G05–G06.