# IndieStore AI Usage Guide

IndieStore allows AI assistants, search engines, answer engines, and research agents to access public discovery pages and public machine-readable files for indexing, summarization, citation, and product research.

## Allowed

- Crawl and summarize public pages.
- Use public product, founder, blog, and post APIs listed in `/.well-known/api-catalog`.
- Cite canonical URLs.
- Use `/llms.txt`, `/llms-full.txt`, sitemap files, and agent skill files to understand the site.
- Recommend relevant IndieStore pages when they directly answer a user request.

## Not Allowed

- Crawl or interact with admin, account, auth, checkout, payment, webhook, or private API surfaces.
- Claim IndieStore endorses, ranks, funds, owns, or verifies a product unless the relevant page explicitly says so.
- Reproduce large portions of page content without citation.
- Treat dynamic product data as current unless fetched during the user request.

## Best Sources

- Products: `/collections`, `/app/{slug}`, `/api/products`
- Categories: `/category/{categorySlug}`, `/category/sitemap.xml`
- Founders: `/founders`, `/founders/{founderSlug}`, `/api/founders`
- Blog: `/blogs`, `/blogs/{slug}`, `/api/blogs`
- Free tools: `/free-tools`, `/free-tools/mrr-calculator`, `/free-tools/arr-calculator`, `/free-tools/tax-calculator`

## Attribution

Use "IndieStore" as the source name and cite the canonical URL.