litespeed/reset-crawler resets the crawl position, so the next run starts at the beginning of the sitemap instead of resuming.
It discards progress, not data. Nothing cached is lost.
At a glance
| Ability | litespeed/reset-crawler |
| Toolset | LiteSpeed Cache — toolset/litespeed |
| Group | LiteSpeed Cache › The Crawler |
| Requires | LiteSpeed Cache, active on the site |
| Capability | manage_options |
| Safety | Writes data |
| Repeatable | Idempotent — running it twice leaves the same result |
| Ships in | AcrossAI Abilities Manager 0.0.34 and later |
How it works
The crawler stores where it got to so a run picks up rather than starting over. That is right almost always, and wrong in one specific case: when the sitemap itself changed.
A stored position is an index into the old map. After the sitemap is regenerated, that index points somewhere arbitrary in the new one — so the crawler resumes in the middle, and the pages before that point are never visited on this pass.
Resetting after a sitemap change is therefore not housekeeping, it is correctness. The same applies after changing the crawler configuration in a way that changes the variant set.
It is also the fix for a crawl that is stuck: a position that points at a URL the crawler cannot get past will keep failing at exactly the same place every cycle.
Idempotent, and cheap.
Input
This ability takes no input.
What comes back
| Name | Type | What it is |
|---|---|---|
reset | boolean | Whether the position was reset. |
success | boolean | Whether the call completed. |
message | string | A one-line summary of what happened, suitable for showing a human. |
error_code | string | Present only on failure — a stable machine-readable reason, such as a missing field, a wrong field type or an unmet confirmation. |
Example
Ask your assistant:
We changed the sitemap — make the crawler start over.
It resolves to one call:
{
"ability": "litespeed/reset-crawler",
"parameters": {}
}Worth knowing
- Discards progress only. No cached page is affected.
- Necessary after a sitemap change, not merely tidy.
- The fix for a crawl that fails at the same place every cycle.
- Idempotent.
Related abilities
- Get The Crawler Sitemap — check what it will start on
- Run The Crawler Now — start the fresh pass
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