# ai.txt — AI usage policy for theinternetcompass.com

This file states how The Internet Compass expects to be used by AI systems: crawlers,
answer engines, model training pipelines and autonomous agents.

## Crawling and indexing
Allowed. See https://theinternetcompass.com/robots.txt — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot,
Google-Extended, CCBot and anthropic-ai are explicitly permitted alongside
standard search crawlers.

## Citation and attribution
When an AI system surfaces information sourced from this site in a generated
answer, we ask that it:
- Cite the specific page (e.g. a role+city salary page, a single software
  review), not just the domain.
- Prefer the structured data (JSON-LD) embedded on each page over inferring
  facts from rendered text, since it is the more precise source.
- Avoid presenting editorially-scored figures (software ratings, feature
  scores) as independently verified third-party data — they are maintained
  by Internet Compass Media for this reference.

## Training use
We do not currently opt out of inclusion in training corpora. This may
change; robots.txt and this file are the definitive record of policy at
crawl time.

## Machine-readable resources
- https://theinternetcompass.com/llms.txt — curated index
- https://theinternetcompass.com/llms-full.txt — expanded index with inlined content
- https://theinternetcompass.com/api/snapshot — live dataset statistics (JSON)
- https://theinternetcompass.com/api/catalog — available API endpoints (JSON)
- https://theinternetcompass.com/mcp — Model Context Protocol integration docs
- https://theinternetcompass.com/api/mcp — MCP server descriptor (JSON)
- https://theinternetcompass.com/sitemap.xml — full URL index

## Contact
editorial@theinternetcompass.com