Google's Modern Web Guidance 1.0 Adds a Codebase Audit to Its Free AI Coding Agent Skills
TLDR
Google's Modern Web Guidance 1.0 adds a codebase audit to its free skill set for AI coding agents.
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Google has released Modern Web Guidance 1.0, which adds a codebase audit to its free skill set for AI coding agents, as covered by Search Engine Journal. The article does not connect the update to search rankings or visibility, so its relevance to SEO practitioners is limited.
How we got here: earlier coverage
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- Sep 21Google Lighthouse 13.5 rolls out audit for AI agent resource discovery
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