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title: "Sitemap"
type: "glossary-term"
category: "Discovery for agents"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/glossary/discovery-for-agents/sitemap"
updated: "2026-07-09"
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# Sitemap

**A sitemap is an XML file listing a site's canonical URLs so crawlers can discover every page, including ones that are hard to reach by following links.**

A **sitemap** is a machine-readable list of a site's URLs (with optional metadata like last-modified dates and language alternates) served at `/sitemap.xml`. It tells crawlers what exists and where, so nothing important is missed.

For large or deeply linked sites, a sitemap is the reliable way to guarantee full coverage rather than hoping crawlers follow every link.

## In GraphCanon

GraphCanon generates its sitemap from live data - every tool, category, and glossary page, with locale alternates - so search engines always see the current graph.

## Related terms

- [Generative engine optimization (GEO)](/glossary/discovery-for-agents/generative-engine-optimization.md)
- [Canonical](/glossary/knowledge-graph/canonical.md)

[Discovery for agents](/glossary/discovery-for-agents.md) · [All glossary terms](/glossary.md)

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**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon`](/api/graphcanon)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

_GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_