Supporting AI Crawlers with ai.txt
Modern AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and other intelligent assistants often rely on structured and accessible content from your website to provide helpful answers to users. To make it easier for AI crawlers to understand and index your public help content, you can use a simple file named ai.txt.
What is ai.txt?
ai.txt is a proposed standard similar to robots.txt, but specifically designed for AI crawlers. It tells AI tools which parts of your website they are allowed to access and index for use in their models or integrations.
While not all AI tools support ai.txt today, support is growing, and adding this file can prepare your content for future AI integrations.
Example of ai.txt
HelpGuides Support for ai.txt
HelpGuides fully support ai.txt. However, as it is an emerging standard the file generated by HelpGuides may change.
You can find your ai.txt file in the root of your site. For example: