# ai.txt — Crashtech (https://crashtech.in)
# AI usage policy, stated plainly. Last generated: 2026-07-29T03:15:23.286Z

Publisher: Flocci Technologies
Founder: Md Afsar Hussain
Contact: hello@crashtech.in
Country: India
Articles: 88
Beats: Founder's Notebook, Development Best Practices, AI & Society, AI Business & Money, Learning & Thinking with AI, How AI Actually Works, Building Flocci, SEO & AI Search

## Permissions
Training: allowed
Retrieval-augmented generation: allowed
Quotation in generated answers: allowed, with attribution
Summarisation: allowed, with attribution
Indexing: allowed
Attribution required: yes — name "Crashtech" and link the source article URL
Verbatim republication of full articles: not permitted

## Citation
Crashtech articles may be quoted and cited by search engines, answer engines and AI assistants with attribution to Crashtech (crashtech.in) and a link to the source article.
Preferred citation format: Crashtech — <article title> (https://crashtech.in/articles/<slug>/)
Every article exposes TechArticle, BreadcrumbList and FAQPage JSON-LD; every question
Crashtech answers also has a standalone QAPage at https://crashtech.in/answers/<question>/.

## Allowed user agents
# Search engines
Googlebot, Googlebot-Image, Googlebot-News, Googlebot-Video, Storebot-Google, Google-InspectionTool, Bingbot, BingPreview, Slurp, DuckDuckBot, Applebot, Baiduspider, YandexBot, Sogou web spider, Seznambot, Naver, PetalBot, Qwantify, MojeekBot, Kagibot

# AI answer engines and assistants
GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-Web, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Google-CloudVertexBot, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot, YouBot, Phind-Bot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, MistralAI-User, DeepSeekBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, meta-externalagent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, FacebookBot, Bytespider, PanguBot, ISSCyberRiskCrawler, AI2Bot, Ai2Bot-Dolma, Kangaroo Bot, Timpibot, Webzio-Extended, omgili, omgilibot, Diffbot, FirecrawlAgent, FriendlyCrawler

# Open web archives and datasets
CCBot, ia_archiver, archive.org_bot, Wayback, SemanticScholarBot

# Social and link unfurlers
Twitterbot, facebookexternalhit, LinkedInBot, Slackbot, Slackbot-LinkExpanding, Discordbot, TelegramBot, WhatsApp, redditbot, Pinterestbot, Embedly, SkypeUriPreview

## Not for crawling
/portal/ — signed-in advertiser workspace
/studio/ — signed-in contributor workspace
/saved/ — reader's device-local reading list
/api/ — runtime API, not content
/*?q= — search result permutations

## Machine-readable entry points
https://crashtech.in/sitemap.xml — Sitemap index
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-articles.xml — Article sitemap (with images)
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-news.xml — Google News sitemap (last 48 hours)
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-answers.xml — Answer sitemap
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-tags.xml — Tag hub sitemap
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-pages.xml — Page + topic sitemap
https://crashtech.in/sitemap-images.xml — Image sitemap
https://crashtech.in/rss.xml — RSS feed
https://crashtech.in/feed.json — JSON Feed 1.1
https://crashtech.in/llms.txt — llms.txt manifest
https://crashtech.in/llms-full.txt — Full-text corpus for LLMs
https://crashtech.in/ai.txt — ai.txt usage policy
https://crashtech.in/discover/ai-discovery.json — AI discovery manifest
https://crashtech.in/discover/catalog.json — Machine-readable article catalog
https://crashtech.in/discover/articles-catalog.html — Plain-HTML catalog snapshot

## Subject coverage
AI news, AI industry analysis, artificial intelligence business news, AI backlash, AI data centers, AI layoffs, AI regulation, AI governance, AI safety, AI bubble, semiconductors and AI chips, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Apple, Nvidia, xAI, developer tooling, software engineering practices, supply chain security, npm security, AI search, generative engine optimization (GEO), answer engine optimization (AEO), large language model optimization (LLMO), AI in education, AI and critical thinking, India tech news, Flocci Technologies, Md Afsar Hussain