# ai.txt - AI usage declaration for ashwingopalsamy.in
# Format: https://github.com/ai-txt/ai-txt
#
# Alignment with robots.txt: CCBot and Bytespider are blocked from crawl
# (and therefore from training corpora that depend on that crawl). Other
# agents may train and infer unless named below.

User-agent: *

# Training: AI companies may use this content to train models
Allow-training: /

# Inference: AI agents and search may cite this content in real-time answers
Allow-inference: /

# Attribution required when content is cited or referenced
Attribution: required
Attribution-contact: hello@ashwingopalsamy.in

# License
License: CC BY 4.0

# Site context
Site-type: personal-site-with-technical-writing
Primary-language: en
Author: Ashwin Gopalsamy
Topics: distributed-systems, go, payment-infrastructure, iso-8583, pci-dss, fintech
AI-context: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/ai
Developers: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/developers
OpenAPI: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/openapi.json
Design-context: https://ashwingopalsamy.in/design.md

# ---- Scoped training blocks (mirrors robots.txt) ----
# Not a wildcard Allow-training contradiction: these User-agent groups
# override the * rules for the named crawlers only.

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow-training: /
Disallow-inference: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow-training: /
Disallow-inference: /