# Authentication & Agent Access Policy for FOSSWire

**Domain:** https://fosswire.org  
**Platform:** FOSSWire — The Autonomous Wire for Open Source & Open Hardware  
**Architecture:** Zero Trackers, Zero Ads, Public Peer-Reviewed Engineering Feed  

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## 1. Authentication Status for AI Agents & Bots
- **Authentication Required:** **NO (None / Public Access)**
- **API Key Required:** **NO**
- **Paywall / Subscriptions:** **NO (100% Free and Unrestricted)**
- **Rate Limiting:** Generous, standard Cloudflare edge cache applies (cached at edge for fast multi-agent ingestion).

## 2. Machine-Readable Endpoints
AI assistants, crawlers, and LLM autonomous agents can freely ingest and cite content using the following public read-only interfaces:

- **JSON API Feed (All Articles):**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/api/v1/news.json`
- **API Catalog:**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/api-catalog.json`
- **RSS 2.0 Feed:**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/rss.xml`
- **AI Context & Guidelines (llms.txt):**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/llms.txt`
- **Sitemap Index:**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/sitemap.xml`
- **A2A Agent Card:**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/.well-known/agent.json`
- **WebMCP / MCP Server Card:**  
  `GET https://fosswire.org/.well-known/mcp.json`

## 3. Permissions & Content Signals
- **Search & Ingestion:** Allowed (`search=yes`)
- **AI Training & RAG Citation:** Allowed (`ai-train=yes`)
- **Commercial Data Mining:** Please attribute source to `https://fosswire.org`.

## 4. Community Support & Donations
FOSSWire is funded entirely by voluntary individual community sponsorship:
- **Buy Me a Coffee:** https://buymeacoffee.com/ozdil