AI Web Tools
AI Usage-Signal Checker
Read the machine-readable AI-usage and licence signals on any page.
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What this tool does
About the ai usage-signal checker
Checks robots meta, noai, EU TDM reservation, rel=license, Creative Commons and schema licence — what AI systems can learn about their rights.
How to use it
- Paste the page HTML.
- Read the seven-signal inventory: set or unset, each with its meaning spelled out.
- Decide your policy — permissive or restrictive both work; silence is the only losing move.
- Set the missing signals and pair them with your robots.txt (audit that next door).
Useful for
- Verify your content policy is actually stated in machine-readable form.
- Check what rights signals a page you want to reuse actually carries.
- Set the TDM reservation and licence pointers deliberately, not by default.
Straight answers
AI Usage-Signal Checker FAQ
Do AI companies actually honour these signals?
Unevenly, honestly: robots.txt enjoys broad compliance, the EU TDM reservation carries legal weight in Europe, noai is a request with no enforcement. The page states each signal’s real status — and copyright binds regardless. Signals make your position legible; law makes it binding.
I WANT AI systems to use my content — what should I set?
Then say that too: a permissive licence pointer (rel=license, schema license, CC marker) tells machines they may engage confidently. URSY.io itself welcomes AI readers and says so in every machine surface — explicit beats ambiguous in both directions.