cross_canonical
Umbodi repoints the canonical to the page's own address, only on a page whose owner has marked it unintended, in a one-change pull request, then checks the defect is gone from the live site.
Fixed by Umbodi on its own site · planted drill
A canonical that names another domain tells search engines this page is a copy of someone else's. The page's own rankings are handed to that other address.
Fires when the page's canonical link points at a different domain from the page. Severity: info.
The agent replaces the cross-domain canonical with the page's own address. Syndicated content can point elsewhere on purpose, so it acts only on a page the owner has marked as unintended for this defect.
The change reaches the site as a pull request against its repository, opened by the Umbodi GitHub App, one page per pull request. A page rendered from a database row — a blog post, say — is healed by writing that row instead, and the write is read back before it counts.
The value is derived from the site's own data, so the change is stamped mechanical and no score bar applies. It still applies only when the owner has armed unattended acting and set this category's autonomy dial to automatic; merging needs a separate opt-in.
Because this can be deliberate, there is one more gate: the owner must have marked this defect as unintended on this page. Without that, the agent proposes and waits.
One proposal in ten is held back as a control group — chosen by a fixed hash per project, not by hand — and is never applied unattended, so the effect of the fixes can be measured against the ones not made.
After the pull request merges and the production deploy appears, the agent fetches the live page and runs the same audit rule that raised the defect. The repair counts only when that rule no longer fires. If it still fires, the page is re-read up to five times, about two and a half hours, and then the agent reverts its own merge.
It stops, and says why, when the site has no GitHub App installation or chosen repository, when the page is not one it may write, when a pull request for the page is already open, when the required checks fail or a person has touched the branch, or when no deploy appears within six hours. It never merges on a check it cannot read, and never reverts on a page it cannot fetch.
We planted this defect on our own site and let the agent find it. Each stage below is a timestamp read from the receipts, not a claim typed into this page.
| Page | planted | found | proposed | approved | published | merged | verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /terms | 2026-10-08 04:22 | 2026-10-08 04:30 | 2026-10-08 04:30 | 2026-10-08 04:30 | 2026-10-08 08:12 | 2026-10-08 09:10 | 2026-10-08 09:13 |
terms.html- <link rel="canonical" href="https://umbodi.ai/terms"> + <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/drill">
terms.html- <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.com/drill"> + <link rel="canonical" href="https://umbodi.ai/terms">
This receipt was recorded before 11 October 2026, when the after-deploy check confirmed only that the changed file loaded. The defect was re-checked on the live site on 11 October with the audit rule itself, and is fixed.
Last verified 2026-10-08 09:13 UTC
That the full chain ran with no human decision inside it: the agent found the defect, decided the fix, published it, merged it and verified the live site.
It does not prove a ranking or citation change. Umbodi never infers one from a fix: rank is measured separately, on Google, and reported as measured. One receipt also shows the path works on this site, not that it works on every site.
Umbodi repoints the canonical to the page's own address, only on a page whose owner has marked it unintended, in a one-change pull request, then checks the defect is gone from the live site.
Yes. We planted it on our own site and the agent found, fixed, merged and verified it with no human decision in the loop. The receipt is on this page.
The receipts page lists every defect type the agent repairs on its own, and which of them it has repaired live on this site.