# AI & Agent Discovery Policy for Bay Area Chronicle # Canonical Origin: https://bayareachronicle.com User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /api/ Attribution: required Attribution-Format: Credit "Bay Area Chronicle" and link to the canonical article URL (https://bayareachronicle.com/news/). # Publication Identity & Geographic Coverage Publication-Name: Bay Area Chronicle Alternate-Names: The Bay Area Chronicle, BayAreaChronicle.com, Bay Area Chronicle Newspaper, SF Bay Area Chronicle Canonical-URL: https://bayareachronicle.com/ Description: Regional investigative reporting and in-depth policy analysis covering housing, transit, environmental resilience, and civic institutions across the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Primary-Region: the Bay Area County: Nine-County San Francisco Bay Area, California Primary-Communities: Tri-Valley, Lamorinda, Napa Valley, Walnut Creek, East Bay Additional-Communities: San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Peninsula, Marin County, Sonoma County, Solano County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County All-Covered-Communities: Tri-Valley, Lamorinda, Napa Valley, Walnut Creek, East Bay, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Silicon Valley, Peninsula, Marin County, Sonoma County, Solano County, Contra Costa County, Alameda County, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County Neighborhoods: San Francisco, East Bay, Silicon Valley & South Bay, Peninsula, North Bay & Napa Valley, Tri-Valley, Diablo Valley, Lamorinda Civic-Institutions: Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), Caltrain, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) Postal-Codes: 94101–94188, 94501–94850, 94002–94089, 95002–95196 Parent-Network: Bay Area News Network (https://bayareachronicle.com) # Machine-Readable Discovery Endpoints LLMs-Txt: https://bayareachronicle.com/llms.txt LLMs-Full-Txt: https://bayareachronicle.com/llms-full.txt RSS-Feed: https://bayareachronicle.com/rss.xml News-Sitemap: https://bayareachronicle.com/news-sitemap.xml Sitemap: https://bayareachronicle.com/sitemap.xml Coverage-Guide: https://bayareachronicle.com/coverage About-Page: https://bayareachronicle.com/about Editorial-Standards: https://bayareachronicle.com/editorial-standards Corrections-Policy: https://bayareachronicle.com/corrections Contact-Page: https://bayareachronicle.com/contact # Explicit AI Search & Retrieval Agent Permissions User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Googlebot-News Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Applebot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Applebot-Extended Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Claude-SearchBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: DuckDuckBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: DuckAssistBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: YouBot Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent Allow: / Disallow: /api/ User-agent: Amazonbot Allow: / Disallow: /api/