diff --git a/HARNESS.md b/HARNESS.md
index 0f51ea3..b70d39f 100644
--- a/HARNESS.md
+++ b/HARNESS.md
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ agent to push back toward CSS or a template.
 stops growing, ext rises" (invariant 9) is observable rather than asserted. The values live in
 `scripts/budgets.env`; raising either needs an ADR stating what moved and why, and the ADR log is where that
 history belongs, not here. Read a core raise as evidence something belongs in `internal/ext/` before reading
-it as evidence the number was small.
+it as evidence the number was small. ADR-0085 is the worked example: `discover` left core for
+`internal/ext/` **and** the ceiling rose to 3400, because the move alone freed 57 lines against four
+scheduled core-bound items, and `feed.go` cannot follow it out — a feed is a resolver case, not an exact
+path.
 
 **Context is a budget, and parts of it are mechanical.** The limit on this project is how much
 work fits in a session, so `harness/context-economy.md` holds the reading, searching and reporting
diff --git a/cmd/khosra/example_test.go b/cmd/khosra/example_test.go
index 0bce6ac..eb3fe45 100644
--- a/cmd/khosra/example_test.go
+++ b/cmd/khosra/example_test.go
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ func exampleSite(t *testing.T) http.Handler {
 	}
 	site := content.NewSite(bundles)
 	r.Navigation(site.Sections)
-	return web.Handler(web.Fixed(site, r), fsys, nil, settings, routes(fsys, settings))
+	return web.Handler(web.Fixed(site, r), fsys, nil, settings,
+		routes(fsys, settings, func() *content.Site { return site }))
 }
 
 func get(t *testing.T, h http.Handler, path string) (int, string) {
diff --git a/cmd/khosra/main.go b/cmd/khosra/main.go
index 0a685f6..5858066 100644
--- a/cmd/khosra/main.go
+++ b/cmd/khosra/main.go
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ func runServe() {
 	watching(fsys, interval, rebuild)
 
 	slog.Info("serving", "site", *site, "bundles", count, "addr", *addr)
-	handler := web.Handler(live.Load, fsys, derivedFS, settings, routes(fsys, settings))
+	handler := web.Handler(live.Load, fsys, derivedFS, settings,
+		routes(fsys, settings, func() *content.Site { return live.Load().Site }))
 	if err := http.ListenAndServe(*addr, handler); err != nil {
 		fatal("server stopped", err)
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/khosra/wire.go b/cmd/khosra/wire.go
index d12d4a3..fa3e1a6 100644
--- a/cmd/khosra/wire.go
+++ b/cmd/khosra/wire.go
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"io/fs"
+	"log/slog"
 	"net/http"
 
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark"
 	"github.com/yuin/goldmark/extension"
 
 	"khosra/internal/content"
+	"khosra/internal/ext/discover"
 	"khosra/internal/ext/notation"
 	"khosra/internal/ext/passthrough"
 	"khosra/internal/ext/shortcodes"
@@ -48,9 +50,32 @@ func extenders(partial render.Partial) []goldmark.Extender {
 // routes is the only list of features owning a URL path of their own.
 //
 // The sibling of extenders(), and the same rule: nothing below cmd may know which features exist, so core
-// receives a map of paths and never the name of whatever filled it (ADR-0081). One entry today — the
-// registry earned exactly the field that has an implementor, and the other six in `extensions.md` wait for
-// theirs.
-func routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings) map[string]http.Handler {
-	return passthrough.Routes(siteFS, settings)
+// receives a map of paths and never the name of whatever filled it (ADR-0081).
+//
+// site is a callback because a sitemap must list what is served *now*, and the index is swapped whole on
+// every rebuild (ADR-0077); a captured pointer would freeze the site as it was at startup.
+//
+// Order is precedence. discover goes first, so a `root/robots.txt` cannot take over the path that already
+// prefers a site's own robots.txt — a clash is logged and dropped rather than silently overwriting, because
+// a map assignment would have picked a winner by iteration order.
+func routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, site func() *content.Site) map[string]http.Handler {
+	out := map[string]http.Handler{}
+	claim(out, "discover", discover.Routes(siteFS, settings, site))
+	claim(out, "passthrough", passthrough.Routes(siteFS, settings))
+	return out
+}
+
+// claim adds a feature's routes, keeping whatever already holds a path.
+//
+// A plain function rather than a closure over out, because a closure put this loop one level deeper than
+// `conventions.md` allows — and the nesting advisory is meant to be acted on, not tolerated.
+func claim(out map[string]http.Handler, feature string, from map[string]http.Handler) {
+	for pattern, handler := range from {
+		if _, taken := out[pattern]; taken {
+			slog.Warn("two features claim the same path; the earlier one keeps it",
+				"path", pattern, "feature", feature)
+			continue
+		}
+		out[pattern] = handler
+	}
 }
diff --git a/harness/decisions.md b/harness/decisions.md
index e38b80c..5558b3a 100644
--- a/harness/decisions.md
+++ b/harness/decisions.md
@@ -1500,3 +1500,34 @@ URL, which is outbound work that must not happen on the request path. That is th
 trigger, not a fourth one.
 Revisit if: an Effect is neither artifact-producing nor outbound, which would mean a third kind and a real
 gap in this split.
+
+## ADR-0085 — `discover` becomes a feature, and the core ceiling rises to 3400
+Date: 2026-08-03 · Status: accepted
+Decision: `/robots.txt` and `/sitemap.xml` move from `internal/web/discover.go` into
+`internal/ext/discover/`, mounted through ADR-0081's Routes seam. The seam gains one parameter — a
+`func() *content.Site` — because a sitemap must list what is served *now* and the index is swapped whole on
+every rebuild (ADR-0077); a captured pointer would freeze the site at startup. `CORE_LOC_MAX` rises from
+3000 to 3400.
+Why the move: these are exact paths somebody else's software asks for by name, own no core concept, and pass
+every test the architecture applies to a feature. They sat in core only because a feature could not own a
+route until ADR-0081. Core went 2965 → 2908.
+Why the raise as well as the move: the review on 2026-08-02 scheduled four core-bound items — logging, the
+View layer, declared content types and a minimal settings cascade — and 35 free lines would not have fitted
+the first of them. `feed.go` and `web/extras.go` cannot follow `discover` out, because a feed lives at
+`/{section}/feed.xml` and extras under a bundle's own URL: both are **resolver** cases, and the seam mounts
+exact paths only. So the move alone could not buy the room, and raising by the minimum that unblocks one item
+produces a ceiling nobody believes. 3400 fits the View cluster with headroom.
+`HARNESS.md` asks that a core raise be read as evidence something belongs in `internal/ext/` before evidence
+the number was small. Both readings are true here, which is why both actions were taken rather than either.
+Consequence: `web` no longer reserves those two paths, so a clash between *features* is `wire.go`'s to
+settle — it merges route maps in declaration order, keeps the earlier claim, and logs the loser. Verified: a
+site shipping `root/robots.txt` starts, serves the engine's robots.txt, and logs the passthrough claim,
+where an unguarded `mux.Handle` would have panicked. Output is byte-identical before and after for both
+paths on the demo site.
+One real cost: `internal/web`'s visibility test asserted that a listing, a feed **and** a sitemap all hide
+unpublished bundles — one property, one test, because all three share a Query. The sitemap half moved to the
+feature rather than a `web` test importing `ext`, which would invert the one-way layering the architecture
+gate enforces. The property is now asserted twice, once per package that owns a surface. That is a genuine
+loss, recorded in both tests.
+Revisit if: the resolver gains feature participation, at which point `feed.go` and `web/extras.go` can leave
+too and the ceiling should be reconsidered downward rather than left as headroom.
diff --git a/harness/state.md b/harness/state.md
index 7379214..ce2f35e 100644
--- a/harness/state.md
+++ b/harness/state.md
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ table owns.
 | `internal/ext/notation/` | the inline marks CommonMark lacks: `~sub~`, `^sup^`, `==mark==`, and `~~strike~~`, which it owns so a single tilde can mean subscript (ADR-0061). `abbr.go` adds `*[TERM]:` definitions and the pass that expands them (ADR-0062) |
 | `internal/ext/scaffold/` | writes one draft directory bundle into a site root through `os.Root`: never an overwrite |
 | `internal/ext/watch/` | polls `content/` and `templates/` on an interval it is given, ignores editor droppings, and reports a settled change (ADR-0022, ADR-0048, ADR-0056). `site.yaml` is deliberately not fingerprinted (ADR-0055) |
+| `internal/ext/discover/` | seventh feature: `/robots.txt` and `/sitemap.xml`, absolute and only with a declared base (ADR-0039). Left core in ADR-0085 — exact paths somebody else's software asks for by name, owning no core concept |
 | `internal/ext/passthrough/` | fifth feature, and the first to own a **route** (ADR-0081): files in `root/` served at the exact path they occupy, `.tmpl` rendered as text with the site's own settings, headers declared per path in `root/_headers.yaml`, underscore-prefixed names not addressable |
 | `internal/ext/check/` | third feature: validates a site root — what the engine worked around, broken internal links, missing titles and alt text, mixed series ordering, and calls left in the retired shortcode form (ADR-0059) |
 | `cmd/khosra/wire.go` | the only list of enabled features (`extensions.md`) — `extenders()` for the ones goldmark composes and `routes()` for the ones owning a URL path (ADR-0081), the `theme` function that builds the renderer this build ships (ADR-0072), and the Markdown dialect with it — tables, footnotes, definition lists, strikethrough, task lists (ADR-0058, ADR-0078) |
@@ -40,8 +41,7 @@ table owns.
 | `internal/web/extras.go` | the extras route: listing, one entry selected, or `?raw` bytes, all behind the bundle lookup |
 | `internal/web/asset.go` | files inside a bundle's own directory, looked up through the owning bundle so visibility can only ever inherit (ADR-0024) |
 | `internal/web/feed.go` | Atom for the site, a section or a tag, from dated bundles via one Query (ADR-0043) |
-| `internal/web/discover.go` | `/robots.txt` and `/sitemap.xml`, absolute and only with a declared base (ADR-0039) |
-| `internal/web/web.go` | handler: `Snapshot` pairs the index with the theme that was current with it (ADR-0077); `serve` dispatches by kind, `serveBundle` answers the commonest one; listings, `/static/`, `/derived/`, degrade on failure. Mounts the exact paths features own, skipping any the engine already answers — a duplicate pattern would panic (ADR-0081) |
+| `internal/web/web.go` | handler: `Snapshot` pairs the index with the theme that was current with it (ADR-0077); `serve` dispatches by kind, `serveBundle` answers the commonest one; listings, `/static/`, `/derived/`, degrade on failure. Mounts the exact paths features own, skipping any the engine already answers — a duplicate pattern would panic (ADR-0081). Since ADR-0085 it reserves only `/`: `/robots.txt` and `/sitemap.xml` are a feature's, so a clash *between* features is `wire.go`'s to settle |
 | `cmd/khosra/main.go` | flags (including `-poll`, zero to stop watching), wiring, startup, the derivative pass, and the one atomic swap a change goes through, theme and index together in `rebuilder` (ADR-0077). `main` dispatches subcommands, `runServe` assembles the server, `rebuilder` is used at startup and on every change alike |
 | `cmd/khosra/check.go` | the `check` subcommand: parse, print, exit code. What counts as a finding lives in the feature |
 | `cmd/khosra/new.go` | the `new` subcommand: arguments in either order, then the feature does the writing |
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ a row that leaves it empty (ADR-0070).
 | Collection pages | 4 | **1** — done | Query primitive: `content.Query{Section, Tag, Lang}` + `Site.Run` | A series archive. Membership is structural and the sort ascends, so it resolves through `Site.Sequence` — sharing the index but not the Query |
 | Views — **per-bundle selection only** | 0 | **2** | The View layer `architecture.md` describes: `view:` in frontmatter choosing a presentation, resolved through the cascade. Nothing selects a view yet | Output formats. HTML, sitemap XML and Atom are three functions with nothing to share — an interface over them would have one member and no leverage |
 | Effects | 1 | **2** | Effect runner + trigger wiring (change / schedule / demand). The only one is the derivative pass (ADR-0042), called from `cmd` inside `rebuilder`, so it already answers both triggers it will ever need — startup and a settled change (ADR-0048) | An in-memory swap. Replacing the index or the theme re-reads the site root into memory, writing no artifact and calling nothing outbound (ADR-0055) |
-| Extensions | 6 | **3** — passed, and the registry is now partly built | Extension registry (`extensions.md`). It reached 3 once before and went back to 2 when the widows feature was deleted (ADR-0045) — a threshold reached by a feature that should not exist was never a threshold. The note below says which field was built and why the rest were not | An upstream extension enabled in the list. `Table`, `Footnote` and `DefinitionList` are goldmark's, so they are dialect rather than features of this engine (ADR-0058) — only a package under `internal/ext/` counts |
+| Extensions | 7 | **3** — passed, and the registry is now partly built | Extension registry (`extensions.md`). It reached 3 once before and went back to 2 when the widows feature was deleted (ADR-0045) — a threshold reached by a feature that should not exist was never a threshold. The note below says which field was built and why the rest were not | An upstream extension enabled in the list. `Table`, `Footnote` and `DefinitionList` are goldmark's, so they are dialect rather than features of this engine (ADR-0058) — only a package under `internal/ext/` counts |
 | Interface implementations | — | **2** | The interface itself | An interface this repo did not declare. Satisfying `fs.FS`, `http.Handler` or `goldmark.Extender` is using somebody else's abstraction, which is the opposite of inventing one |
 | Non-stdlib dependencies | 4 direct | budget in `scripts/budgets.env` | — | The standard library, and a dependency's own test-only modules — `go list -m all` shows those, and the gate counts `require` entries instead (`scripts/budgets.env`) |
 
@@ -120,10 +120,10 @@ landed (ADR-0061, ADR-0062) and the count was never incremented, though the pros
 five. Six now, with `passthrough`. This is the latent item about the counters having no mechanical check,
 demonstrating itself; the count is authoritative only because someone just ran `ls internal/ext/`.
 
-**A registry over the *other* attachment points would still buy nothing.** The six features
+**A registry over the *other* attachment points would still buy nothing.** The seven features
 attach in four unrelated ways: `shortcodes` and `notation` are goldmark extenders listed in `extenders()`,
 `check` and `scaffold` are functions `cmd` calls for a subcommand, `watch` is a goroutine, and
-`passthrough` hands back a map of URL paths. A registry would
+`passthrough` and `discover` hand back maps of URL paths. A registry would
 have to abstract over "extends Markdown", "validates content", "writes a file" and "polls a directory", which
 share nothing but the word *feature* — one member and no leverage. Adding `notation` made this clearer rather
 than more urgent: two goldmark extenders compose in goldmark's own extender list, which is already the registry
diff --git a/harness/surface.md b/harness/surface.md
index 879fd00..6a934b2 100644
--- a/harness/surface.md
+++ b/harness/surface.md
@@ -6,22 +6,23 @@ Every top-level declaration in the engine, with its line. Read this before openi
 file: it answers "where does X live" and "what is in this package" without the bodies. What each
 file is *for* lives in `state.md`; why it is that way lives in `decisions.md`.
 
-## cmd/khosra — 320 lines + 308 test
+## cmd/khosra — 346 lines + 309 test
 
-check.go 45 · main.go 177 · new.go 42 · wire.go 56
+check.go 45 · main.go 178 · new.go 42 · wire.go 81
 
 - check.go:16 func runCheck(args []string)
 - main.go:23 func main()
 - main.go:44 func runServe()
-- main.go:100 func pollInterval(dev bool, chosen time.Duration) time.Duration
-- main.go:116 func watching(fsys fs.FS, every time.Duration, rebuild func() int)
-- main.go:128 func rebuilder(fsys fs.FS, settings content.Settings, cache string, reveal bool,
-- main.go:160 func defaultCache() string
-- main.go:170 func fatal(msg string, err error)
+- main.go:101 func pollInterval(dev bool, chosen time.Duration) time.Duration
+- main.go:117 func watching(fsys fs.FS, every time.Duration, rebuild func() int)
+- main.go:129 func rebuilder(fsys fs.FS, settings content.Settings, cache string, reveal bool,
+- main.go:161 func defaultCache() string
+- main.go:171 func fatal(msg string, err error)
 - new.go:12 func runNew(args []string)
-- wire.go:20 func theme(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings) (*render.Renderer, error)
-- wire.go:33 func extenders(partial render.Partial) []goldmark.Extender
-- wire.go:54 func routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings) map[string]http.Handler
+- wire.go:22 func theme(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings) (*render.Renderer, error)
+- wire.go:35 func extenders(partial render.Partial) []goldmark.Extender
+- wire.go:61 func routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, site func() *content.Site) map[string]http.Handler
+- wire.go:72 func claim(out map[string]http.Handler, feature string, from map[string]http.Handler)
 
 ## internal/content — 1074 lines + 598 test
 
@@ -115,6 +116,17 @@ check.go 223 · doc.go 8
 - check.go:172 func asset(fsys fs.FS, trimmed string, site *content.Site) bool
 - check.go:200 func mixedOrdering(bundles []content.Bundle, site *content.Site) []Finding
 
+## internal/ext/discover — 107 lines + 139 test
+
+discover.go 98 · doc.go 9
+
+- discover.go:14 const
+- discover.go:24 func Routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, site func() *content.Site) map[string]http.Handler
+- discover.go:40 func robots(w http.ResponseWriter, siteFS fs.FS, base string)
+- discover.go:61 func sitemap(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, base string)
+- discover.go:83 func xmlEscape(s string) string
+- discover.go:93 func writeAs(w http.ResponseWriter, contentType string, out []byte, what string)
+
 ## internal/ext/notation — 411 lines + 149 test
 
 abbr.go 246 · doc.go 8 · notation.go 157
@@ -355,15 +367,11 @@ chrome.go 115 · render.go 499 · view.go 192
 - view.go:167 type Picture struct
 - view.go:184 type Origin struct
 
-## internal/web — 765 lines + 1423 test
+## internal/web — 687 lines + 1324 test
 
-asset.go 58 · discover.go 71 · extras.go 93 · feed.go 125 · resolve.go 170 · web.go 248
+asset.go 58 · extras.go 93 · feed.go 125 · resolve.go 170 · web.go 241
 
 - asset.go:22 func serveAsset(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, siteFS fs.FS, res resolution) bool
-- discover.go:14 const
-- discover.go:24 func serveRobots(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, siteFS fs.FS, base string)
-- discover.go:45 func serveSitemap(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, base string)
-- discover.go:67 func xmlEscape(s string) string
 - extras.go:18 func serveExtras(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer,
 - extras.go:69 func renderExtras(w http.ResponseWriter, r *render.Renderer, b content.Bundle, served string,
 - extras.go:85 func find(entries []content.Entry, want string) (content.Entry, bool)
@@ -386,10 +394,10 @@ asset.go 58 · discover.go 71 · extras.go 93 · feed.go 125 · resolve.go 170 
 - web.go:28 type Current func() *Snapshot
 - web.go:31 func Fixed(site *content.Site, theme *render.Renderer) Current
 - web.go:43 func Handler(current Current, siteFS, derivedFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, routes map[string]http.Handler) http.Handler
-- web.go:91 func serveStatic(sub fs.FS) http.Handler
-- web.go:107 func serveListing(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, res resolution) bool
-- web.go:131 func serveTags(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, res resolution) bool
-- web.go:156 func write(w http.ResponseWriter, out []byte, what string)
-- web.go:165 func writeAs(w http.ResponseWriter, contentType string, out []byte, what string)
-- web.go:173 func serve(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings)
-- web.go:204 func serveBundle(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer,
+- web.go:84 func serveStatic(sub fs.FS) http.Handler
+- web.go:100 func serveListing(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, res resolution) bool
+- web.go:124 func serveTags(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, res resolution) bool
+- web.go:149 func write(w http.ResponseWriter, out []byte, what string)
+- web.go:158 func writeAs(w http.ResponseWriter, contentType string, out []byte, what string)
+- web.go:166 func serve(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer, siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings)
+- web.go:197 func serveBundle(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, r *render.Renderer,
diff --git a/internal/web/discover.go b/internal/ext/discover/discover.go
similarity index 55%
rename from internal/web/discover.go
rename to internal/ext/discover/discover.go
index 0f90968..909bccb 100644
--- a/internal/web/discover.go
+++ b/internal/ext/discover/discover.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package web
+package discover
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
@@ -10,18 +10,34 @@ import (
 	"khosra/internal/content"
 )
 
-// robots and sitemap are the two files a crawler looks for by exact name.
+// The two paths, exported so the wiring can reason about precedence without restating strings.
 const (
-	robotsPath  = "/robots.txt"
-	sitemapPath = "/sitemap.xml"
+	RobotsPath  = "/robots.txt"
+	SitemapPath = "/sitemap.xml"
 )
 
-// serveRobots answers /robots.txt, preferring the site's own file.
+// Routes returns the two exact paths this feature owns.
+//
+// site is a callback rather than a value because a sitemap must list what is served *now*: the index is
+// swapped whole on every rebuild (ADR-0077), and a captured pointer would serve the site as it was at
+// startup. settings is copied, since editing `site.yaml` needs a restart anyway (ADR-0055).
+func Routes(siteFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, site func() *content.Site) map[string]http.Handler {
+	return map[string]http.Handler{
+		RobotsPath: http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+			robots(w, siteFS, settings.Base)
+		}),
+		SitemapPath: http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+			sitemap(w, req, site(), settings.Base)
+		}),
+	}
+}
+
+// robots answers /robots.txt, preferring the site's own file.
 //
 // A site that ships robots.txt has said something deliberate, so it is served verbatim; otherwise the engine
 // emits the minimum that is true — everything is public, and here is the sitemap. The Sitemap line only
 // appears with a declared base, because a relative sitemap reference is not something a crawler accepts.
-func serveRobots(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, siteFS fs.FS, base string) {
+func robots(w http.ResponseWriter, siteFS fs.FS, base string) {
 	if siteFS != nil {
 		if data, err := fs.ReadFile(siteFS, "robots.txt"); err == nil {
 			writeAs(w, "text/plain; charset=utf-8", data, "robots.txt")
@@ -31,18 +47,18 @@ func serveRobots(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, siteFS fs.FS, base st
 	var out strings.Builder
 	out.WriteString("User-agent: *\nDisallow:\n")
 	if base != "" {
-		fmt.Fprintf(&out, "Sitemap: %s\n", content.Absolute(base, sitemapPath))
+		fmt.Fprintf(&out, "Sitemap: %s\n", content.Absolute(base, SitemapPath))
 	}
 	writeAs(w, "text/plain; charset=utf-8", []byte(out.String()), "robots.txt")
 }
 
-// serveSitemap answers /sitemap.xml with every bundle in every language it exists in.
+// sitemap answers /sitemap.xml with every bundle in every language it exists in.
 //
 // It needs a declared base: the sitemap format has no room for a relative URL, so without one the honest
 // answer is that this file does not exist rather than a file full of paths no crawler can use (ADR-0039).
 // Every URL comes from content.URL, like every other path the engine emits, so a sitemap can never disagree
 // with what is actually served.
-func serveSitemap(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, base string) {
+func sitemap(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, site *content.Site, base string) {
 	if base == "" {
 		slog.Warn("no sitemap: the site declares no base URL", "file", content.SettingsFile)
 		http.NotFound(w, req)
@@ -69,3 +85,14 @@ func xmlEscape(s string) string {
 		"&", "&amp;", "<", "&lt;", ">", "&gt;", `"`, "&quot;", "'", "&apos;",
 	).Replace(s)
 }
+
+// writeAs sets the type and writes, logging a failed write rather than pretending it succeeded.
+//
+// Five lines copied from internal/web rather than shared: a feature may not import web (conventions.md), and
+// two copies of five obvious lines is cheaper than a package existing to hold them.
+func writeAs(w http.ResponseWriter, contentType string, out []byte, what string) {
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", contentType)
+	if _, err := w.Write(out); err != nil {
+		slog.Warn("write failed", "what", what, "err", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/web/discover_test.go b/internal/ext/discover/discover_test.go
similarity index 61%
rename from internal/web/discover_test.go
rename to internal/ext/discover/discover_test.go
index 8a3b64b..191651a 100644
--- a/internal/web/discover_test.go
+++ b/internal/ext/discover/discover_test.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package web
+package discover
 
 import (
 	"net/http"
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"testing/fstest"
 
 	"khosra/internal/content"
-	"khosra/internal/render"
 )
 
+// crawlerHandler mounts just this feature's routes, which is all these two paths need — no renderer, no
+// resolver, no mux full of bundle handling.
 func crawlerHandler(t *testing.T, settings content.Settings, extra fstest.MapFS) http.Handler {
 	t.Helper()
 	fsys := fstest.MapFS{
@@ -25,11 +26,12 @@ func crawlerHandler(t *testing.T, settings content.Settings, extra fstest.MapFS)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	r, err := render.New(nil, settings, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+	site := content.NewSite(bundles)
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	for pattern, handler := range Routes(fsys, settings, func() *content.Site { return site }) {
+		mux.Handle("GET "+pattern, handler)
 	}
-	return Handler(Fixed(content.NewSite(bundles), r), fsys, nil, settings, nil)
+	return mux
 }
 
 func TestSitemapListsEveryVariantAbsolutely(t *testing.T) {
@@ -99,3 +101,39 @@ func TestRobotsWithoutABaseOmitsTheSitemapLine(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("a relative sitemap reference is not something a crawler accepts:\n%s", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// A slug moves a bundle's address without moving its key, so a sitemap built from keys would advertise URLs
+// that 404. Moved here from internal/web with the sitemap itself (ADR-0085).
+func TestTheSitemapUsesTheSluggedAddress(t *testing.T) {
+	h := crawlerHandler(t, content.Settings{Base: "https://khosra.example"}, fstest.MapFS{
+		"content/posts/hello-world.md": {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Hello\ndate: 2026-03-01\nslug: ekti-post\n---\nx\n")},
+	})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.ServeHTTP(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/sitemap.xml", nil))
+	body := rec.Body.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "/posts/ekti-post/") || strings.Contains(body, "hello-world") {
+		t.Errorf("a sitemap that disagrees with what is served is worse than none:\n%s", body)
+	}
+}
+
+// The sitemap goes through the same Query every listing does, so a draft or a future-dated bundle is absent
+// from it for the same reason it is absent from a section page. The other half of this lives in
+// internal/web's visibility test, which owns the surfaces that stayed there (ADR-0085).
+func TestTheSitemapOmitsUnpublishedBundles(t *testing.T) {
+	h := crawlerHandler(t, content.Settings{Base: "https://khosra.example"}, fstest.MapFS{
+		"content/art/draft/index.md":  {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Draft\ndraft: true\n---\nx\n")},
+		"content/art/future/index.md": {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Future\ndate: 2099-01-01\n---\nx\n")},
+		"content/art/live/index.md":   {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Live\ndate: 2020-01-01\n---\nx\n")},
+	})
+	rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	h.ServeHTTP(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/sitemap.xml", nil))
+	body := rec.Body.String()
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "/art/live/") {
+		t.Errorf("the sitemap lost a published bundle:\n%s", body)
+	}
+	for _, hidden := range []string{"draft", "future"} {
+		if strings.Contains(body, hidden) {
+			t.Errorf("the sitemap leaked the %s bundle:\n%s", hidden, body)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/ext/discover/doc.go b/internal/ext/discover/doc.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b21043
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/ext/discover/doc.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// Package discover serves the two files a crawler asks for by exact name.
+//
+// `/robots.txt` and `/sitemap.xml` are addresses other people's software decided, like the `.well-known`
+// paths passthrough serves. Neither is a bundle and neither can collide with one, since a bundle key always
+// sits under a section — so both are exact mux entries rather than resolver cases (ADR-0039).
+//
+// This lived in `internal/web` until ADR-0085 moved it out: it is a feature by every test the architecture
+// applies, and core needed the room for the primitives Arc 2 earns.
+package discover
diff --git a/internal/web/slug_test.go b/internal/web/slug_test.go
index c4dd123..deab60f 100644
--- a/internal/web/slug_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/slug_test.go
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ func TestAnAliasCanKeepTheOldPathWorking(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestListingsAndSitemapsUseTheSluggedAddress(t *testing.T) {
+// The sitemap half of this moved to internal/ext/discover with the sitemap itself (ADR-0085); a web test
+// cannot reach a feature, since the layering runs one way only (conventions.md).
+func TestListingsUseTheSluggedAddress(t *testing.T) {
 	fsys := fstest.MapFS{
 		"content/posts/hello-world.md": {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Hello\ndate: 2026-03-01\nslug: ekti-post\n---\nx\n")},
 		"content/posts/plain.md":       {Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Plain\ndate: 2026-02-01\n---\nx\n")},
@@ -89,11 +91,6 @@ func TestListingsAndSitemapsUseTheSluggedAddress(t *testing.T) {
 	if body := rec.Body.String(); !strings.Contains(body, `href="/posts/ekti-post/"`) || strings.Contains(body, "hello-world") {
 		t.Errorf("a listing must link the address, not the key:\n%s", body)
 	}
-	rec = httptest.NewRecorder()
-	h.ServeHTTP(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/sitemap.xml", nil))
-	if body := rec.Body.String(); !strings.Contains(body, "/posts/ekti-post/") || strings.Contains(body, "hello-world") {
-		t.Errorf("a sitemap that disagrees with what is served is worse than none:\n%s", body)
-	}
 }
 
 func TestAmbiguousOrCollidingSlugsAreDropped(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/internal/web/visibility_test.go b/internal/web/visibility_test.go
index 7b7b662..77267f8 100644
--- a/internal/web/visibility_test.go
+++ b/internal/web/visibility_test.go
@@ -69,8 +69,13 @@ func TestNothingInsideAnUnpublishedBundleIsServed(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestUnpublishedBundlesAreAbsentFromEverythingThatLists(t *testing.T) {
-	// A listing, a feed and a sitemap all go through the same Query, so hiding a draft in one place hides it
+	// A listing and a feed both go through the same Query, so hiding a draft in one place hides it
 	// everywhere. That is the property worth testing rather than each surface separately.
+	//
+	// The sitemap was the third surface here until ADR-0085 moved it to internal/ext/discover. Its half of
+	// this test moved with it rather than reaching across the boundary: a web test importing a feature would
+	// invert the one-way layering the architecture gate enforces. The property is now asserted twice, once
+	// per package that owns a surface — a real cost of the move, recorded rather than hidden.
 	fsys := unpublishedFS()
 	fsys["content/art/live/index.md"] = &fstest.MapFile{Data: []byte("---\ntitle: Live\ndate: 2020-01-01\n---\nx\n")}
 	bundles, err := content.Scan(fsys)
@@ -83,7 +88,7 @@ func TestUnpublishedBundlesAreAbsentFromEverythingThatLists(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	h := Handler(Fixed(content.NewSite(bundles), r), fsys, nil, settings, nil)
-	for _, path := range []string{"/art/", "/feed.xml", "/sitemap.xml"} {
+	for _, path := range []string{"/art/", "/feed.xml"} {
 		rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
 		h.ServeHTTP(rec, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, path, nil))
 		body := rec.Body.String()
diff --git a/internal/web/web.go b/internal/web/web.go
index 1d929bf..8670477 100644
--- a/internal/web/web.go
+++ b/internal/web/web.go
@@ -42,21 +42,13 @@ func Fixed(site *content.Site, theme *render.Renderer) Current {
 // contain, is the feature's business — the same division `/derived/` already uses.
 func Handler(current Current, siteFS, derivedFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings, routes map[string]http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()
-	// Registered first so a later duplicate is caught rather than panicking, and so core's own answers are
-	// the ones that cannot be taken over.
-	reserved := map[string]bool{"/": true, robotsPath: true, sitemapPath: true}
+	// Core's own answers, which a feature may not take over. /robots.txt and /sitemap.xml are no longer here:
+	// they moved to a feature (ADR-0085), so a clash between two features is wire.go's to detect.
+	reserved := map[string]bool{"/": true}
 	mux.HandleFunc("GET /", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 		now := current()
 		serve(w, req, now.Site, now.Theme, siteFS, settings)
 	})
-	// Two exact paths a crawler asks for by name, so they are mux entries rather than resolver cases: no
-	// bundle can own them, since a key always sits under a section.
-	mux.HandleFunc("GET "+robotsPath, func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
-		serveRobots(w, req, siteFS, settings.Base)
-	})
-	mux.HandleFunc("GET "+sitemapPath, func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
-		serveSitemap(w, req, current().Site, settings.Base)
-	})
 	if siteFS != nil {
 		if sub, err := fs.Sub(siteFS, "static"); err == nil {
 			mux.Handle("GET /static/", http.StripPrefix("/static/", serveStatic(sub)))
@@ -69,11 +61,12 @@ func Handler(current Current, siteFS, derivedFS fs.FS, settings content.Settings
 			http.StripPrefix(content.DerivedPrefix, serveStatic(derivedFS)))
 	}
 	// A feature's routes go on last. A path core already answers is skipped, not overridden: http.ServeMux
-	// panics on a duplicate pattern, so without this a site shipping root/robots.txt would take the server
-	// down at startup rather than lose a race it was never told about. `khosra check` reports the shadow.
+	// panics on a duplicate pattern, so without this a feature claiming "/" would take the server down at
+	// startup rather than lose a race it was never told about. Clashes *between* features are settled in
+	// cmd/khosra/wire.go, which is the only place that knows features exist.
 	for pattern, handler := range routes {
 		if reserved[pattern] || strings.HasPrefix(pattern, "/static/") || strings.HasPrefix(pattern, content.DerivedPrefix) {
-			slog.Warn("a passthrough path is already answered by the engine and is not served",
+			slog.Warn("a feature claims a path the engine already answers; it is not served",
 				"path", pattern)
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/scripts/budgets.env b/scripts/budgets.env
index e2049db..fdc8480 100644
--- a/scripts/budgets.env
+++ b/scripts/budgets.env
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # code worse — sharding a coherent file into a `_helpers.go` turns it green while creating the package
 # CLAUDE.md rule 3.6 bans. Total mass cannot be gamed by moving code between files; file length can.
 
-CORE_LOC_MAX=3000      # cmd/ + internal/{content,render,web} + repo root, non-test .go (ADR-0041, ADR-0065, ADR-0074)
+CORE_LOC_MAX=3400      # cmd/ + internal/{content,render,web} + repo root, non-test .go (ADR-0041, ADR-0065, ADR-0074, ADR-0085)
 EXT_LOC_MAX=3500       # internal/ext/ — composition, grows after the core freezes (ADR-0074)
 FILE_LOC_WARN=500      # any single .go file — advisory
 FUNC_LOC_WARN=60       # any single function — advisory