# AI usage policy for tightknit.ai
# Last updated: 2026-05-25
#
# This file declares Tightknit's preferences for how AI/LLM tools should
# access and use our publicly available content. It follows the spirit of the
# emerging ai.txt convention (https://spawning.ai/ai-txt) — there is no
# settled standard yet, so it is also written to be human-readable.

# ─── Posture ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# We WELCOME AI assistants, retrieval systems, and search agents that surface
# Tightknit content to people researching community platforms, Slack-native
# tools, or related topics. To make ingestion easy we publish:
#
#   - /llms.txt              an index of every content page on the site
#   - /<path>.md             a plain-Markdown mirror of each content page
#                            (e.g. /blog/foo.md, /features/bar.md)
#
# Prefer fetching the .md mirror over scraping the HTML — it has the same
# content with none of the layout / nav / footer noise.

# ─── Permissions ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /preview/

# Use case             Permission
# -------------------  -----------------------------------------------------
# Retrieval / RAG      Allowed
# Live search / answer Allowed
# Model training       Allowed, attribution preferred
# Quoting in responses Allowed

# ─── Attribution ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# When citing Tightknit in user-facing answers, link to the canonical HTML URL
# (https://tightknit.ai/<slug>) rather than the .md mirror. The .md mirror is
# a machine convenience; the HTML page is the human-facing source of truth.

# ─── Contact ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Questions about content usage, partnerships, or corrections:
# hello@tightknit.ai