AI Content Bridge

An answer engine can only cite what it can reach and parse, so the bridge is about availability and structure rather than volume. Content is exposed in a form built for machine consumption: a per-domain llms.txt stating what the site covers, structured data that mirrors the visible page rather than describing content that is not there, and clean feed endpoints with real timestamps so a consumer can tell what changed. Crawler access is declared explicitly per user agent and then verified by fetching robots.txt back from the live host, because a rule written into a file that is never served protects nothing and grants nothing. Freshness signals are honest: lastmod reflects the date the content actually changed, since a uniform timestamp across a whole site forfeits the freshness signal it was meant to send. Where a page is updated materially, the update is surfaced rather than silently swapped, so a system that cached the old version has a reason to look again.

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