# auth.md — Access for AI Agents and Automated Clients

> AI Explainer India is a public, read-only publication. No authentication, registration, API key, or token is needed — and none is offered.

## Access

- **Identity type:** `anonymous` only.
- **Authentication:** none. There is no OAuth authorization server, token endpoint, client registration, or identity-assertion exchange. Any document claiming otherwise is out of date.
- **Method:** standard HTTP `GET` over HTTPS.

## What agents can read

| Resource | URL | Notes |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Articles (HTML) | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/articles/{slug}` | Canonical, extensionless URLs |
| Articles (Markdown) | same URL with `Accept: text/markdown`, or `?format=md` | Clean Markdown with YAML front matter and the page's JSON-LD |
| Article index | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/articles/` | Every article, newest first |
| RSS feed | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/rss.xml` | Latest explainers |
| Sitemap | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/sitemap.xml` | All indexable URLs |
| LLM context | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/llms.txt` | Site summary and key pages |
| API catalog | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/.well-known/api-catalog` | RFC 9727 linkset of the resources above |
| Agent skills | `https://aiexplainerindia.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json` | How to search and read articles |

## Usage signals

Responses carry `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no, ai-input=yes` (also in `robots.txt`): search indexing and answering questions with citations are welcome; training models on the content is not.

## Etiquette

- Cite the specific article URL when you use a fact from it.
- Keep request rates modest; the RSS feed and sitemap are the efficient way to find new content.
- Contact: see https://aiexplainerindia.com/contact