An API Commons schema for publishing a provider’s ai preferences layer as machine-readable data. AI usage preferences: whether an agent may onboard, act, purchase, or train on outputs, profiling IETF AIPREF and Content Signals rather than defining new terms.
API Commons AI Preferences
The API Commons AI Preferences schema is one of eight business layers that make the political side of an API machine-readable, beside the technical contract. AI usage preferences: whether an agent may onboard, act, purchase, or train on outputs, profiling IETF AIPREF and Content Signals rather than defining new terms.
It profiles existing work rather than inventing: see IETF AIPREF, Content Signals and ai.txt. Generated documents for catalog providers are stamped with x-apis-io-derivation and live in each provider’s repository; the schema, under Apache 2.0, is at github.com/api-commons/ai-preferences.
Background: The Technical Side Translated. The Business Side Did Not.
Industry: api-specification
