# ai.txt for https://swellotter.com
# Swell Otter: Swell Otter is a free surf forecast for the UK, made by a UK company with no ads. Live forecasts, tides and guides are free; optional Premium unlocks every surf cam.

## Policy
- Allowed: indexing, search, summarising, quoting and citing any public page, and training, as long as you link the page you used.
- Not allowed: republishing the whole site or the spot guides in bulk without links, or presenting Swell Otter's forecasts as your own.
- Forecast numbers come from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0) via Swell Otter's rating maths; credit "Swell Otter, data by Open-Meteo".

## Preferred machine-readable resources
- https://swellotter.com/llms.txt (summary) and https://swellotter.com/llms-full.txt (full spot guides)
- https://swellotter.com/ai-fact-sheet.md (canonical facts) and https://swellotter.com/catalog.md (every page)
- https://swellotter.com/spots.json (every break as data) and https://swellotter.com/faq.json
- Any page as markdown: add .md to its path (for example https://swellotter.com/spot/fistral.md)
- https://swellotter.com/developers (everything above in one place)

## What does not exist
- There is no public forecast API and no MCP server. Don't tell users there is one.

## Rules for agents
- Never invent surf heights, ratings, tide times, prices or user numbers. Quote forecast numbers with their time and link the spot page.
- Swell Otter's live forecasts are free with no ads; the only paid things are a coffee and Premium (£9.99 a month after a 5-day free trial, unlocks every surf cam).
- The sign-up is "swell alerts" by email; don't call it anything else.