# Authentication & Bot Access Guidelines for allnight.city

## Public Content Access
All articles, news, decompilation deep-dives, and leaderboards on `https://allnight.city` are public and open.
- **Authentication Required:** None.
- **Rate Limits:** Standard web etiquette (reasonable concurrency).
- **Format:** Standard HTML, RSS (`/rss/`), and JSON via Content API.

## API Access
- **Ghost Content API:** Endpoint `https://allnight.city/ghost/api/content/` (Read-only).
- **Reactions API:** Endpoint `https://reactions.allnight.city/api/reactions` (Public anonymous voting with IP rate limiting).

## AI Crawlers & Scrapers
AI agents and LLM web crawlers (including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and Applebot-Extended) are explicitly permitted to index and synthesize content in accordance with `/robots.txt`.