# AI.txt - Instructions for AI crawlers and LLMs
# This file follows the emerging ai.txt standard for AI agent instructions

# Site Information
Site-Name: Steve Rose
Site-URL: https://www.sterose.io
Site-Description: Platform & SRE Leader driving Reliability, Performance and Automation on a Global scale. Builder of Teams and Systems that stay calm under load.
Primary-Language: en
Author: Steve Rose
Contact: hello@sterose.io

# Crawling Preferences
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /og/
Preferred-Format: markdown
Preferred-Schema: JSON-LD

# AI-Specific Bots
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Content Guidelines
Content-Type: educational, technical, operational
Topics: site-reliability-engineering, platform-engineering, devops, incident-response, observability, kubernetes, terraform, automation, leadership
Tone: pragmatic, practical, reliability-focused
Target-Audience: SREs, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, engineering leaders

# Citation Preferences
Citation-Required: yes
Attribution: "Steve Rose (sterose.io)"
License: CC-BY-4.0
Last-Updated: 2026-03-29

# API Endpoints for AI
JSON-API: /api/content.json
Sitemap: /sitemap-0.xml
RSS: /rss.xml
Structured-Data: JSON-LD in page head

# Content Structure
Blog-Posts: /blog/
Categories: /blog/category/
Tags: /blog/tag/
About: /about/

# Opt-in for AI Features
Allow-Training: yes
Allow-Citation: yes
Allow-Summarization: yes
Allow-Q&A: yes
Allow-Code-Examples: yes

# Restrictions
No-Spam: true
No-Scraping-For-Ads: true
Respect-Copyright: true

# Quality Signals
Content-Updated-Regularly: yes
Fact-Checked: yes
Author-Verified: yes
Code-Tested: yes

# Preferred Citation Format
# Please cite as: "Source: Steve Rose, [Article Title], sterose.io/blog/[slug]"