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Witness AI Permission Checker
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Witness AI Permission Checker is a paid API for AI agents from witness.holoweave.org, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).
Fetches and verifies whether a named AI agent is permitted to fetch or train on a given URL, by reading robots.txt, noai meta tags, TDM reservations, and X-Robots-Tag signals, returning a signed attestation verdict.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusDown
How this service works
Web bot auth debugging for AI agents, priced per check at $0.01. RFC 7638 keyid thumbprint verification, RFC 9421 Ed25519 signature verification, and per-verifier acceptance rules. Signed attestations, published fixtures, sources with dates.
Output
A signed ed25519-attested JSON object containing a verdict (allow/fail), the evidence used (robots.txt groups, noai tags, TDM signals, X-Robots-Tag), a list of findings with severity levels (blocking, warning, etc.), and metadata about the agent and use type checked. The signature includes a key_id and algorithm for independent verification.
Example use cases
Pre-crawl compliance check for training pipeline
“Check whether ClaudeBot is permitted to train on https://www.nytimes.com — look at robots.txt and any TDM or noai signals on the page and return a signed verdict I can store.”
Fetch permission audit before agent browsing
“Before my agent fetches https://techcrunch.com/article/ai-roundup, can you verify that a fetch (not training) by GPTBot is allowed according to their robots.txt and X-Robots-Tag headers?”
Change detection on site's AI policy
“I got a permission digest for https://openai.com last week — can you re-check whether their stance on CCBot training has changed since then? Here's the old digest: abc123xyz.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://witness.holoweave.org/v1/ai-permissionWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a cryptographically signed, auditable, source-of-truth verdict on whether a specific AI agent is permitted to fetch or train on a URL — especially when you need to store proof of compliance or detect policy drift over time. Prefer this over manual robots.txt parsing when you need multi-signal aggregation (robots.txt + noai meta + TDM + X-Robots-Tag) in a single call, or when your pipeline requires an independent witness attestation rather than self-reported permission.
Side effects
- URL is unreachable or returns non-200 — evidence may be incomplete or verdict defaults to unknown
- robots.txt is malformed or absent — falls back to page-level signals only
- Agent token not recognized in any robots.txt group — matched against wildcard group
- expect_digest provided but no prior state exists — attestation may not include drift info
- Target URL behind authentication or CAPTCHA — page-level noai signals cannot be read
- Network timeout fetching the target URL — partial evidence, verdict may be inconclusive
Output
Schema · Response
{
"example": {
"signature": {
"alg": "ed25519",
"value": "base64...",
"key_id": "aw-attest-2026-08"
},
"attestation": {
"verdict": "fail",
"endpoint": "ai-permission",
"evidence": {
"use": "train",
"agent": "GPTBot",
"robots": {
"groups": 62,
"present": true,
"fetch_allowed": false,
"matched_group": "gptbot"
}
},
"findings": [
{
"code": "ROBOTS_DISALLOW",
"detail": "robots.txt group \"gptbot\" disallows / for GPTBot (rule: Disallow: /).",
"severity": "blocking"
}
]
}
}
}Tags
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