Why it matters
Said at Search Central Live: Google plans to publish downloadable SHACL rules on each structured data feature guide, to run inside a site's content generation so markup is checked before it is published. They will catch problems such as a missing required field but will not replace Search Console reports, and they were not yet available at the time of the event.
How to meet it
Plan a CI or CMS publishing step that runs a SHACL validator (for example pySHACL) against the generated JSON-LD, adopt the rules type by type as Google releases them, and keep the Rich Results Test and Search Console as the reference.
How to test it
Once rules exist, the build fails when a template drops a required property.
How Regensbot covers it
Regensbot guides you through your structured-data validation step, records your attestation and tracks when it expires. Attested is never shown as pass.
A weekly watch looks for Google's structured-data validation rules and turns this into a CI check once Google publishes them.
You verify the site by a DNS TXT record, a meta tag or a file. Regensbot then keeps a checklist item for this requirement, with a state, a guide, an evidence upload and reminders.
Sources
Google documents00
No Google document is cited. This requirement was said at Search Central Live and is not documented policy.
Claims in the knowledge base06
- D2-C514UndocumentedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Shown on screen
- D2-C515UndocumentedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Shown on screen
- D2-C516UndocumentedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
- D2-C517UndocumentedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
- D2-C519UndocumentedWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.Said on stage
- D2-C520n/aWhat is Structured Data and why we need it on the internet.The author's interpretation
Claim IDs refer to the Search Central Live 2026 knowledge base. The knowledge base (opens in a new tab)
- Undocumented
- Said or shown at the event, not in the documentation.
- n/a
- Nothing to verify: a quotation, framing, opinion or analysis.