R8.1: Anti-cloaking & markdown parity

Short answer: Serve identical facts to crawlers and browsers. Showing a crawler different facts than a person is cloaking. Search engines penalise it.

Group: Marketing and attribution. Status: stable. Generated from the rule definitions; do not edit by hand.

Playground: https://brevio.pro/tools/agent-guard-playground?rule=R8.1

What it catches

Anti-cloaking & markdown parity: serve identical facts to crawlers and browsers.

Why

Showing a crawler different facts than a person is cloaking. Search engines penalise it.

A bad example

if (isBot(ua)) return richPage; else return thinPage;

A good example

return samePage;

How it is checked

Nothing yet. No scanner and no slice card checks it: it is a standing rule for authors and reviewers.

How to silence it

A person can silence one finding with brevio-core: ignore R8.1 -- reason on the line or the line above. Without the reason it does not count. An agent cannot silence it: the agent hook and the MCP tools never honour the comment, and a pull request that adds one is reported until a reviewer allows it. Fixing the code is still the better answer.

To change what the rule flags, edit its definition in dev_rules.py or code_rules/__init__.py. That is a code change and is reviewed like one.

R8.2 Honest telemetry attribution
R8.3 Consent Mode v2 ordering
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