Methodology
Content-Usage preferences
ia.content-usage · 1.10
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Why it matters
Content-Usage is an AIPREF working-group draft for declaring content-use preferences. It is descriptive preference metadata, not crawler access control.
How to fix it
Declare your content-use preferences with a Content-Usage rule in robots.txt or an HTTP header.
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Decide your preferences for the AIPREF categories, for example train-ai and search.
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Add a Content-Usage line to robots.txt, or send a Content-Usage header.
User-agent: * Allow: / Content-Usage: train-ai=n, search=y
Verify
curl -sf https://{domain}/robots.txt
Expected: A Content-Usage line with valid AIPREF vocabulary
Run a new scan for this checkpoint:
isagentready results {domain} --checkpoint ia.content-usage
Details Mapping, lifecycle and references
- AR mapping
- No AR practice
- Evidence source
- AIPREF Content-Usage attachment draft (work in progress)
- Score role
- Bonus
- Introduced
- 2026-08-24
- Revised
- 2026-09-02
- Methodology version
- 2026-10-22