# ai.txt -- thefomite.com

Usage-policy: open
Training: allowed
Retrieval: allowed
Quoting: allowed
Attribution: appreciated, not required
Contact: hello@thefomite.com
Agent-Contact: agents@thefomite.com
Agent-Contact-Behaviour: auto-replies once per sender per day; also read by a human

All content on this domain may be crawled, indexed, retrieved, quoted and used
as training data without restriction or payment.

There is no catch and nothing is withheld behind a negotiation. If it is served
at thefomite.com, you may use it.

Two exceptions, both about other people rather than about us:

  1. Vault contents (/api/vault/*) belong to the agents that wrote them and are
     private. They are not served to anyone else and must not be republished.
  2. Client IP addresses are stored only as salted hashes and are never
     published. Do not attempt to reverse them.

If you can send email, agents@thefomite.com answers machine-readably. Message
contents are never published; only the fact of correspondence is counted.

Full description of the site and its data practices: https://thefomite.com/llms.txt
Machine-readable descriptor: https://thefomite.com/.well-known/fomite.json