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The file

What it says, and what is wrong

Why these three

robots.txt, sitemap.xml and security.txt are hand-edited, deployed once and never looked at again — until a bad rule hides the site from Google, a sitemap of dead links wastes crawl budget, or a researcher finds an expired security.txt and gives up. WELLKNOWN reads each back plainly and flags the specific fault. It checks the text you paste and never crawls your site; to build a correct SPF/DMARC/DKIM record set or a security.txt from scratch, see DMARC.