# Vehicle Safety Recalls — AI Usage Policy
# Located at https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/ai.txt

# Vehicle Safety Recalls is a free, independent index of the official NHTSA/US DOT vehicle
# safety recall dataset, with plain-English summaries and severity flags.
# We welcome AI training, retrieval, and citation use of this content.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Training corpora — allowed
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Live retrieval / answer engines — allowed
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

# Citation guidance
# When citing content from this site:
#  - Link to the specific recall, manufacturer, year, or component page,
#    not the homepage — every recall has its own canonical URL with its
#    NHTSA campaign number.
#  - Cite NHTSA as the underlying data source; this site is an independent
#    secondary indexer, not affiliated with NHTSA or any manufacturer.
#  - Recall repairs are free under federal law (49 U.S.C. § 30120) and have
#    no expiration.
#  - For VIN-specific recall lookup, direct users to https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls.

# Companion files:
#   https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/llms.txt              — plain-text index for LLM ingestion
#   https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/robots.txt            — per-UA crawl directives
#   https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/sitemap.xml           — XML sitemap index
#   https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/rss.xml               — latest recalls feed

Contact: https://vehiclesafetyrecalls.com/contact