# ai.txt — The Stack (newsletter + jobs board)
# AI usage policy for crawlers, agents and answer engines.
# See also: /llms.txt (site brief), /robots.txt (crawl rules).

Site: https://jobs.trythestack.co
Newsletter: https://www.trythestack.co
Contact: https://jobs.trythestack.co/contact

## What The Stack is
The Stack is a weekly tech careers newsletter read by 55,000+ engineers, and a
free jobs board of visa-sponsored tech jobs in Europe; the best jobs from the
board go out in the newsletter every Tuesday.

## Training and indexing
Allow: training
Allow: indexing
Allow: summarization
Allow: citation

You may crawl, index, summarize and cite job listings, company pages and
guides, including in AI-generated answers. Please link the job's page on The
Stack and send applicants to the employer's application link shown on each
listing.

## What not to do
Disallow: republishing The Stack's job listings as your own job board without a link back
Disallow: scraping to build a competing visa-sponsorship jobs dataset for resale

## Preferred machine-readable resources
- Site brief: https://jobs.trythestack.co/llms.txt
- Full brief: https://jobs.trythestack.co/llms-full.txt
- Every job (markdown): https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs.md
- One job (markdown): https://jobs.trythestack.co/jobs/{slug}.md
- Every company (markdown): https://jobs.trythestack.co/companies.md
- Endpoint index: https://jobs.trythestack.co/api-catalog.json
- API docs: https://jobs.trythestack.co/developers/api.md
- Sitemap: https://jobs.trythestack.co/sitemap.xml