/machine-consumption.json became New Runtime’s leading machine route in one 24-hour snapshot. This Lab turns that attention into a falsifiable test: do verified crawlers move from the gateway into canonical content, or do they only poll the file?
Starting observation, not attribution: the baseline did not prove that Applebot read the manifest or followed its links.
Each stage can fail independently. Keeping them separate makes polling, shallow crawl, and real return traffic visible.
| Layer | Expected | Observed | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway | Typed routes in manifest v1.1 | Baseline: 125 reads | Repeated reads alone are polling. |
| Physical graph | 10,191 links across 1,020 canonical nodes | Awaiting verified overlay | Coverage uses nodes available during the window. |
| Knowledge graph | 11,897 topic, pattern, and source-evidence edges | Awaiting observed path span | Editorial relationship is distinct from a literal HTML link. |
| Recall / authority | Exact canonical citation | Probe status: not_run | No provider account is simulated. |
Official CIDR ranges or forward-confirmed reverse DNS are checked privately. IPs, hostnames, raw User-Agents, and sessions never enter public files.
Matched a supported provider verifier.
Named family, verifier mismatch or unavailable evidence.
No supported public identity method.
| Claimed family | Status | Requests | Canonical nodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Awaiting the first identity-aware production snapshot. | |||
Alternate HTML, Markdown, and JSON representations collapse into one material. Paths are privacy-safe family aggregates from short request windows, not persistent subjects or proof of crawler intent.
| Bot family | Identity | Sessions | Unique materials | Material reads | Depth median / max | Observed path |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awaiting the first journey-aware production snapshot. | ||||||
“Path” means ordered successful server requests within a 30-minute inactivity window. IP is used only in memory to keep concurrent streams apart and is never published.
Traffic growth is an external result, not a release criterion. The system succeeds by producing honest, reproducible evidence.
Primary window: 7d. Report at 7 days; keep 30-day collection running. Do not claim causality from request order.
manifest_sessionsmanifest_followthrough_sessionsfollowthrough_percentpolling_only_sessionsPrimary window: 7d. Promising if coverage expands across two verified families or median latency improves by at least 25%.
eligible_nodescovered_nodescoverage_percentmedian_discovery_latency_secondsPrimary window: 7d. External provider absence is not_run. Publication to social channels requires a separate owner approval and receipt.
referralsverified_repeat_fetchescanonical_citationsttfu_proxy_secondsLoading the privacy-safe route aggregate…
Open the JSON contract