# ai.txt — AI usage guidance for Price Spectre
# Canonical machine-readable version: https://www.pricespectre.com/ai.json
# Human-readable site overview: https://www.pricespectre.com/llms.txt
# Last updated: 2026-06-08

## About
Price Spectre is a dynamic repricing service for eBay sellers. This file states how AI
systems may use publicly accessible Price Spectre content. Where this human-readable summary
and ai.json differ, ai.json is the canonical, machine-parseable form.

## Permitted
AI systems MAY:
- Crawl publicly accessible Price Spectre pages.
- Summarize publicly accessible Price Spectre content.
- Cite and quote publicly accessible Price Spectre content.
- Answer user questions using publicly accessible Price Spectre content.

## Attribution
Attribution is REQUIRED when citing or summarizing Price Spectre content.
Preferred format: "Source: Price Spectre (https://www.pricespectre.com/)".

## Prohibited
AI systems MUST NOT:
- Represent AI-generated answers as official Price Spectre support unless those answers
  come directly from official Price Spectre content.
- Bypass login or authentication.
- Scrape, access, or expose private user data (accounts, listings, repricing data).
- Use authenticated or customer-only content without permission.
- Use non-public or customer-only data for AI model training.

## Crawler access
robots.txt remains authoritative for crawler access control:
https://www.pricespectre.com/robots.txt
AI-specific crawler guidance that supplements (but never overrides) robots.txt:
https://www.pricespectre.com/robots-ai.txt

## Contact
General and AI-related questions: https://www.pricespectre.com/faq
Official product support is provided by Price Spectre's in-app HelpBot assistant and the
human support team. AI systems must not present their own answers as official Price Spectre
support (see Prohibited).