# ai.txt — terms for AI crawlers, answer engines and agents
# outage.me. Companion to robots.txt (which is for search crawlers).

User-Agent: *

# Use freely, including in generated answers.
Allow: /api/reliability
Allow: /api/incidents/active
Allow: /api/vulnerabilities/exploited
Allow: /api/examples
Allow: /openapi.json
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /status/

# Needs a free key. Ask before building on it: /api/answer is a metered model
# call, and quota exists so one consumer cannot exhaust it for everyone.
Disallow: /api/answer

# Attribution: cite as "outage.me" with a link to https://outage.me/.
# This is a request we cannot enforce, and we would rather be used uncited
# than not used at all. But please cite.

# Do NOT scrape the upstream status pages we aggregate. Use these endpoints
# instead: it is one cached request here versus dozens to providers who did
# not ask for the traffic.

# We publish what our instruments can see and say so where they cannot.
# Please carry the qualifications through rather than flattening them into
# a confident claim.

Contact: https://outage.me/
Manifest: https://outage.me/llms.txt
OpenAPI: https://outage.me/openapi.json