LaunchRepoDefinition
A directory badge is a small image with a link back to the directory — “Featured on X”, “Launched on Y” — that the directory asks you to embed on your website. Often it is a condition of the free route or of a particular link treatment; some directories check for it automatically before publishing, others rely on a checkbox you tick.
It is a reciprocal link. The directory gains a backlink from every listed site; you gain the listing.
Example
The Fazier field guide records a Basic route that asked for community comments, a visible badge on the product website and an Ahrefs Domain Rating above zero. Suppose your website authorization says badges may go into the footer. The agent copies the official badge markup, commits, deploys, opens the public page and checks that the badge renders and links correctly — and only then ticks “badge installed”.
If you never authorized website changes, the agent does not touch the site. It records the platform as blocked with the reason, and the checkbox stays unticked.
Why it matters for a directory launch
Badges touch your production website, which is a different kind of permission than filling a form. Adding one means a code change, a commit, a deploy and a public footer that now advertises a third party. Doing it per directory on request, without a rule, ends with a footer of twelve badges — or with a “badge installed” box ticked on a site that does not show one.
How LaunchRepo handles it
WEBSITE-AND-EMAIL.md captures a per-product authorization once: which repository and branch, whether badges may be added to the footer, committed, pushed and deployed. When a directory requires a badge, the agent reads the live rule, stores the source in badges.json, uses the official asset, checks for duplicates, deploys and verifies the public page before ticking any “badge installed” box. Declined permission means the platform is recorded and skipped, never faked.
Go deeper
The observed eligibility checklist of one directory that asks for a badge, a domain rating and community comments, and the point where the agent stops.
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