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Untitled Protocol – machine-readable intent for web pages

DEV Community: html·untitled·3 days ago
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I built a small open protocol for declaring the intent of a web page in a machine-readable way. The problem it solves: crawlers, search engines, and AI pipelines treat all content as equally permanent and citable. A forum post you wrote at 2am, a draft article, an ephemeral tweet-length thought, a user-generated comment — they all get indexed, trained on, and cited the same way. There's no signal for "this was never meant to be permanent" or "this is a work in progress." The protocol adds one tag to your HTML: <meta name="untitled" content="draft"> or one HTTP header: X-Untitled: ephemeral Six states are defined in the spec: now — canonical, stable, citable draft — work in progress, not final ephemeral — short-lived, not meant to be archived anonymous — author requests identity de-coupling from content collective — community/multi-author content (forums, wikis) generative — AI-generated or AI-assisted content States can be combined: content="draft,anonymous" What's live: Spec at…

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