diff --git a/public/agent-desk.html b/public/agent-desk.html
index 4f68447e..12564494 100644
--- a/public/agent-desk.html
+++ b/public/agent-desk.html
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
       content="The self-serve Agent Desk is retired and is not the current offer. TinyStudio's current offer is the free leak audit of high-ticket service homepages."
     />
     <meta property="og:type" content="website" />
-    <meta property="og:url" content="https://tinystudio.io/" />
-    <link rel="canonical" href="https://tinystudio.io/" />
+    <meta property="og:url" content="https://tinystudio.io/agent-desk.html" />
+    <link rel="canonical" href="https://tinystudio.io/agent-desk.html" />
     <meta property="og:image" content="https://tinystudio.io/og-image.png" />
     <meta property="og:image:width" content="1200" />
     <meta property="og:image:height" content="630" />
diff --git a/scripts/check-site.mjs b/scripts/check-site.mjs
index 0e301463..c2832fbb 100644
--- a/scripts/check-site.mjs
+++ b/scripts/check-site.mjs
@@ -1131,6 +1131,22 @@ const retiredDeskDescription =
 if (!/\bretired\b/i.test(retiredDeskDescription)) {
   failures.push("Retired Agent Desk description must frame the surface as retired.");
 }
+// The legacy page must not claim the apex root as its canonical or og:url: the
+// homepage is a live page that owns the root, and a noindex page canonicalizing
+// to a live page tells Google the legacy page is a duplicate of the homepage —
+// handing the retired title/snippet back to tinystudio.io (the very
+// consolidation the de-indexing pass exists to stop). The canonical and og:url
+// must instead name the page's own served address, https://tinystudio.io/agent-desk.html.
+const retiredDeskCanonical =
+  retiredDesk.match(/<link\b[^>]*\brel\s*=\s*["']canonical["'][^>]*>/i)?.[0] ?? "";
+if (!/href\s*=\s*["']https:\/\/tinystudio\.io\/agent-desk\.html["']/i.test(retiredDeskCanonical)) {
+  failures.push("Retired Agent Desk canonical must name its own served address https://tinystudio.io/agent-desk.html, never the apex root (a noindex page canonicalizing to a live page re-consolidates the retired title onto the homepage).");
+}
+const retiredDeskOgUrl =
+  retiredDesk.match(/<meta\b[^>]*\bproperty="og:url"[^>]*>/i)?.[0] ?? "";
+if (!/content\s*=\s*["']https:\/\/tinystudio\.io\/agent-desk\.html["']/i.test(retiredDeskOgUrl)) {
+  failures.push("Retired Agent Desk og:url must name its own served address https://tinystudio.io/agent-desk.html, never the apex root (it would claim the live homepage as this page).");
+}
 
 // ---- Meta descriptions (dogfood) -------------------------------------------
 // The leak audit this site sells flags a homepage whose served HTML carries no