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AI MANIFEST STANDARD · OPEN · CC BY 4.0

One file that presents your site to AI.

An AI agent that lands on your site shouldn't have to guess. The AI Manifest is a single, discoverable file at /.well-known/ai-manifest.json that answers, in one fetch: what is this site, where's the machine-readable content, how can I act, and what am I permitted to do?

It composes — it doesn't compete

The manifest points to the standards you already use and adds the two things none of them cover alone: a unified discovery entry and an explicit AI-use policy.

read
Where machine-readable content lives
llms.txt, sitemap.xml
docs
Machine-first product docs
AI Docs Standard (documentation.ai.md)
act
How an agent may take action
MCP, OpenAPI, or declared HTTP actions
policy
What agents are permitted to do
AI use, training, attribution, rate, terms

It is the site-level sibling of the AI Docs Standard: that describes a product to an agent; this describes a site.

Discovery

GET /.well-known/ai-manifest.json (RFC 8615) <link rel="ai-manifest" href="/.well-known/ai-manifest.json">

Adopt it

1
Publish the file
Start with aiManifestVersion and site; add read, docs, act, policy as they apply. Declare only what is true.
2
Point, don’t copy
Link what you already have — llms.txt, MCP, OpenAPI, documentation.ai.md. Never duplicate their content.
3
State your policy
The one thing only you can declare: AI use, training, attribution, rate limits, terms.

Reference implementation

This site ships a live manifest at /.well-known/ai-manifest.json — pointing agents to our llms.txt, the AI Docs Standard, and our AI-use policy.

GitHub repositorySpecification (v1)JSON SchemaLive manifest

The AI Manifest Standard is authored and stewarded by iwasoft and released under CC BY 4.0.