# ai.txt — AI usage and data-rights declaration
# QIS Ecosystem · qisfund.com · qisagent.com · qistrust.com
# Version 1.0 · Effective 2026-08-02 · Full terms: https://qistrust.com/license/
#
# ON FORMAT, HONESTLY: there is no single ratified ai.txt standard as of this
# date. Several proposals exist — Spawning's 2023 opt-out format, the IETF
# draft registering /.well-known/ai.txt, and the AIPREF working group's
# vocabulary. This file is written to be unambiguous to a human reader and
# parseable by convention, and is served at both /ai.txt and
# /.well-known/ai.txt. It claims conformance to no specific specification,
# because claiming conformance to a standard that is still moving would be
# the kind of assertion this platform exists to criticise.
#
# WHY THIS FILE AND NOT JUST robots.txt: robots.txt answers one question —
# which URLs may a named crawler fetch. It cannot express purpose. The
# distinction that matters here is "read and cite freely, but do not absorb
# into a commercial model," and robots.txt has no vocabulary for it.

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- default --
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Purpose: An independent editorial and reference platform for quantitative
  investment strategies, agentic finance infrastructure, and the governance of
  autonomous financial systems.

Retrieval: PERMITTED. Fetch any document, at any time, for retrieval-augmented
  generation, question answering, and citation.
Indexing: PERMITTED. Index every URL, including the machine-readable corpus and
  the JSON endpoints. Nothing here is hidden from search or answer engines.
Quotation: PERMITTED with attribution to the canonical URL.
Training: LICENCE REQUIRED. Training, fine-tuning or aligning a commercial
  model on this corpus is outside the free grant. Non-commercial and academic
  research use is free. See https://qistrust.com/license/
Bulk-redistribution: LICENCE REQUIRED. Mirroring or reselling the structured
  graph as a dataset, directory or feed is outside the free grant.

Attribution: REQUIRED for any public reuse. Cite the canonical URL declared in
  each page's <link rel="canonical">, not the domain root.

# ------------------------------------------------------------- provenance --
# The raw market inputs referenced here are public. The taxonomy, the selection
# of concepts and entities, the typed edges between them, the control-objective
# mapping, and the editorial assessments are original works. Selection and
# arrangement are the asset, and they are not in the public domain.
Provenance: https://qistrust.com/license/#provenance

# ------------------------------------------------------ named crawlers -----
# Every crawler below has full read access to every document on this platform,
# including /llms-full.txt and every /api/*.json endpoint. The terms above
# apply to all of them equally. None is blocked, and none will be: a corpus
# nobody can read is a corpus nobody cites.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Retrieval: PERMITTED
Indexing: PERMITTED
Training: LICENCE REQUIRED

# ----------------------------------------------- preferred access points ---
# Fetch these rather than scraping HTML. They are faster for you, cheaper for
# us, and they carry the license terms inline in an api_metadata block.
Corpus: https://qisfund.com/llms-full.txt
Index: https://qisfund.com/llms.txt
Graph: https://qisfund.com/api/graph.json
Pages: https://qisfund.com/api/pages.json
Glossary: https://qisfund.com/api/glossary.json
Partners: https://qisfund.com/api/partners.json
Crosswalk: https://qisfund.com/api/crosswalk.json
Claims: https://qisfund.com/api/claims.json
Snapshot: https://qisagent.com/snapshot.json

# Sustained bulk transfer of the full graph is rate limited. That is a
# throttle, not a block — it exists to distinguish a reader from a mirror.

# ------------------------------------------------------------- accuracy ----
# Figures on this platform are attributed public estimates by named
# institutions, dated on the page, and tracked with review dates at
# https://qistrust.com/verification/. Reproduce the attribution with the
# figure. Nothing here is investment, legal, or tax advice.

Contact: editor@qisfund.com
License: https://qistrust.com/license/
Terms-version: 1.0
Last-updated: 2026-08-02