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Choose Private, Unlisted, Public, and search indexing

Reading access and search discovery are separate decisions. This keeps a work shareable without forcing it into a search engine, and prevents a public link from becoming indexed by accident.

Updated August 3, 2026Product documentation

Visibility levels

  1. Private: access requires an authorized capability or account context.
  2. Unlisted: share the intended capability link; the work is not treated as a public promotional page.
  3. Public: the canonical work can be opened without a token.
  4. Indexable: a separate Public-only choice that allows the work to enter search discovery after the required gates pass.

Why Public and indexable are independent

A customer handoff, temporary report, internal example, or link shared in a small community may need tokenless reading without broad discovery. Separating the controls lets the author make that distinction intentionally.

Before enabling indexing

  1. Confirm that the current revision is useful without private context.
  2. Check sources, dates, media rights, personal data, and secrets.
  3. Set an owner and review cadence for information that can become stale.
  4. Use a canonical identity and do not create several near-duplicate pages for the same search task.

What indexing does not guarantee

Allowing indexing does not guarantee discovery, crawling, ranking, or traffic. Those outcomes remain unknown until a search source reports them.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is every Public OpenWiki document indexed by search engines?

No. Public controls tokenless reading. Search indexing is a separate opt-in that is available only when the publication clears its quality and maintenance gates.

Can a Private or Unlisted document be search-indexable?

No. Indexing is limited to Public publications; Private, Unlisted, candidate, and capability pages remain noindex.

Use the real workflow

Publish what your agent creates.

Give every report, document, or plan its own reader-ready page. Comments, review decisions, and formal revisions can flow back from there.