answer preamble

warning answer-preamble AI search and answer extraction

“In this article we will look at…” is a run-up, not an answer. AI search quotes the beginning, so the beginning has to be the substance.

What indexgap reports

The finding reads:

warning  answer-preamble  the first paragraph opens with a run-up, “……” — AI search quotes the answer, not the introduction

How to fix it

Cut the run-up from the opening paragraph: it should be a direct answer to the query. That paragraph is the one that gets quoted.

How it behaves at scale

Collapsed when it fires template-wide. If it appears on 90% or more of the pages — or of one language version — of a site with at least 20 pages, it is a property of the template and is reported once, with the count, instead of once per page.

Finding it

pipx install indexgap
cd your-project
indexgap init
indexgap check

Then indexgap brief turns every finding on this page into a work order in indexgap-briefs/, with the thresholds the result has to satisfy and the command to check it.

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