ai.txt: A Domain-Specific Language for Guiding AI Interactions with the Internet

ai.txt is a domain-specific language (DSL) similar to robots.txt. Website owners use the /ai.txt file to give instructions about their site to AI agents. 

Here's how it works:

1. A website owner creates an ai.txt file and puts it under this path of their website: /ai.txt

2. AI agents that access/interact with the website will first look for the /ai.txt file

3. If the /ai.txt file exists, the AI agents will parse it and follow the instructions inside when interacting with the website

TO BE EXPANDED

robots.txt is not enough !

1. Blocklist circumvention

2. Fine-grained control over AI user-agent actions

TO BE EXPANDED

• Simple

  • Avoid verbosity

  • Avoid repetition

  • Actions mean what they say

• Easy to use

  • DSL

  • Naturalistic language

  • Avoid logical impositions on the syntax i.e.: too many interactive behaviours between keywords

• Customisable

  • Accommodate different use-cases

  • Accommodate different levels of security requirements

  • Accommodate different levels of technical understanding

• Extensible

  • Accommodate rapidity of progress in AI space

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