seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack is an SSOT Registry pack for search visibility, answer visibility, AI citation readiness, web metadata quality, accessibility, and performance governance.

It gives product, platform, content, and compliance teams a shared set of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and Specifications (SPECs) that can be applied across many repositories. Centralizing these requirements turns discoverability work into reusable governance: one reviewed standard can be synchronized into project registries, linked to features and tests, and reused during release review instead of being rewritten from scratch in every product.

What Is An SSOT Registry Pack?

An SSOT Registry pack is an installable package of governed ADRs and SPECs for ssot-registry. The pack supplies reusable decision and requirement documents. ssot-registry applies those documents to a project registry so teams can trace product requirements from decision, to specification, to implementation, to tests and release evidence.

This makes governance portable. A project can adopt the pack, synchronize the documents, list the active requirements, and connect local features or tests to the shared IDs.

Why This Pack Exists

Search, answer, and AI discovery requirements now span many surfaces: HTML metadata, structured data, robots policy, sitemaps, crawler controls, accessibility baselines, social graph previews, and performance signals. Teams need one durable source for these requirements so product changes, content operations, and technical implementation stay aligned.

This pack helps teams:

• apply reviewed SEO, AEO, and AiEO requirements quickly across projects
• keep search metadata, answer extraction, and AI citation requirements consistent
• give engineering and content teams the same IDs for planning, implementation, and review
• connect accessibility and performance quality to discoverability governance
• make release reviews easier by tracing project work back to shared ADRs and SPECs

Domain Focus

The pack focuses on product domains where discoverability, answer quality, and machine-readable metadata directly affect user acquisition, trust, and citation quality:

• SEO and organic search governance
• AEO answer surface governance
• AiEO citation and provenance governance
• robots and crawler control policy
• sitemap and discovery artifact policy
• HTML head metadata and canonical URL policy
• structured data vocabulary and encoding quality
• social preview metadata for Open Graph and X / Twitter Cards
• accessibility baseline governance through WCAG 2.1 AA
• web performance quality using Core Web Vitals and supporting metrics
• AI crawler controls and experimental llms.txt handling

Included ADRs

• adr:0800 SEO, AEO, and AiEO documents ship as an installable extension pack
• adr:0801 crawl control is distinct from indexing control
• adr:0802 discovery artifacts are separate from metadata artifacts
• adr:0803 canonical HTML metadata remains the source page contract
• adr:0804 structured data uses layered authority
• adr:0805 Google AI features do not justify AI-specific schema or AI-only files
• adr:0806 accessibility conformance is a governed discovery-quality prerequisite
• adr:0807 social graph metadata is separate from search structured data
• adr:0808 AI crawler controls must distinguish search, training, and user-triggered fetch
• adr:0809 llms.txt is experimental and must not outrank canonical surfaces
• adr:0810 performance metrics use standards-backed authority where available
• adr:0811 derived tooling metrics remain separate from web-platform normative metrics

Included SPECs

• spc:0800 SEO governance surface
• spc:0801 AEO answer surface contract
• spc:0802 AiEO citation and provenance contract
• spc:0803 robots exclusion protocol contract
• spc:0804 sitemap and sitemap-index contract
• spc:0805 HTML head metadata and canonical link contract
• spc:0806 structured data vocabulary and encoding contract
• spc:0807 Google Search eligibility and structured data quality contract
• spc:0808 Google AI features eligibility contract
• spc:0809 helpful, reliable, people-first content contract
• spc:0810 WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility contract
• spc:0811 Core Web Vitals performance contract
• spc:0812 Open Graph contract
• spc:0813 X / Twitter Cards contract
• spc:0814 DCMI interoperable metadata contract
• spc:0815 OpenAI crawler controls contract
• spc:0816 llms.txt experimental contract
• spc:0817 First Contentful Paint contract
• spc:0818 Largest Contentful Paint contract
• spc:0819 Long Tasks responsiveness contract
• spc:0820 Total Blocking Time operator contract

Install With uv

Install the pack into a project environment:

uv add seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack

Install it alongside the SSOT Registry CLI:

uv add ssot-registry seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack

Run without adding dependencies to a project:

uvx --from ssot-registry --with seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack ssot --help

Install With The SSOT Registry Pack CLI

Pack-enabled SSOT Registry environments can install and synchronize packs through the pack command surface:

uvx --from ssot-registry ssot pack install seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack
uvx --from ssot-registry ssot pack sync . seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack

Use With The SSOT Registry CLI

After the pack is installed in the same environment as ssot-registry, synchronize ADRs and SPECs into a target repository:

uv run ssot adr sync .
uv run ssot spec sync .

Review the synchronized governance surface:

uv run ssot adr list .
uv run ssot spec list .
uv run ssot spec get . --id spc:0805

Use the IDs from this pack when linking project features, tests, claims, and release evidence in your local .ssot registry.

Programmatic Usage

from seo_aeo_aieo_governance_pack import load_document_manifest, read_packaged_document_text

adr_manifest = load_document_manifest("adr")
spec_manifest = load_document_manifest("spec")

print(adr_manifest[0]["id"])
print(spec_manifest[0]["id"])

text = read_packaged_document_text("spec", "SPEC-0801-aeo-answer-surface-contract.yaml")
print(text[:120])

Resources

• GitHub repository: groupsum/seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack
• PyPI package: seo-aeo-aieo-governance-pack
• SSOT Registry: ssot-registry