Policy
AI crawlers and AI assistants are welcome to read this site. That is not a grudging allowance written into a file nobody reads; it is the deliberate position, and this page is here so a person can check it without parsing robots.txt. Sonic Weaver is a free browser tool with no paywall and no sign-up wall on any public page, so an agent reading it sees exactly what a visitor sees.
The wildcard rule would already admit all of them. They are named anyway, because some operators obey only a group that names them, and because a named group is a statement rather than an accident. The two lists below are read from the same module that builds the served robots.txt, so this page cannot claim an agent the file does not.
Fetching pages nobody is waiting on. These get the whole public reading surface: the marketing pages, the engine and template catalogue, the help centre, tutorials, blog, glossary, community and creator pages, and the machine-readable endpoints below.
Two pages are held back from this group and only from this group: /editor and /studio. That is not a policy about training data. They are client-only workspaces that server-render almost no text, a measured 34 characters in /editor’s body at load, so a bulk fetch of them indexes an empty shell and spends crawl budget for nothing.
An AI acting for a person who wants this page, right now. The crawl-budget argument above does not apply at all when there is no budget being spent, so this group additionally gets the two workspaces. Every engine, control and export in this product runs in the browser inside them, which makes an AI browser driving the real page the only way an AI can actually use this site rather than just describe it.
The authoritative crawl rules, including the named groups below. If this page and that file ever disagree, the file is what is served and the file wins.
A plain-text description of what this site is, what each engine does, and where the important pages are.
The same map, plus the full text of every article and the complete control reference, so an answer can be grounded in one fetch.
Every indexable URL on this host, with last-modified dates.
Two more surfaces exist for machines rather than readers, so they are named here rather than linked: /mcp, a stateless Model Context Protocol endpoint for a client that speaks it, and /api/v1, a read-only public API. Both serve the same registries this site renders. The public API applies a per-IP rate limit and answers an over-quota request with 429 plus a Retry-After header; the MCP endpoint currently applies no limit of its own.
Requests, not conditions. Access does not depend on any of them and nothing here is enforced by a technical measure.
If an answer draws on this site, name Sonic Weaver and link to the page it came from. That is a request rather than a condition of access, nothing here is gated on it, and no agent is blocked for ignoring it. It is the same request llms.txt makes at the bottom of its own text, and the reason is practical: a reader who is told where an answer came from can check it, and a link is the only thing that lets them.
llms.txt is a short map of the site. llms-full.txt carries the complete text of every help article, tutorial, blog post and glossary entry plus the full control reference for every engine, in one fetch. Reading either is cheaper for you and for this server than crawling the equivalent HTML, and it is the copy that is written to be read out of context.
Videos a visitor renders here belong to that visitor with no attribution requirement, and the site says so publicly. The site's own software, design and written content are a different thing and remain proprietary; see the press kit for what may be reproduced.
The public API applies a per-IP rate limit and answers an over-quota request with 429 and a Retry-After header rather than a block, so an agent that reads that header will not be shut out. Sending a user agent that impersonates a browser to get around a rule is the one behaviour that turns a welcome into a problem.
Nothing personal. Every page an AI agent is invited to fetch is a public page: no account, no form, and no cookie is required to read any of them, and there is no personal data on them to collect. The community and creator pages show only what their author chose to publish.
The full account is on the privacy policy; this section describes only the part a crawl can touch.
The original music, backgrounds and photos in the free assets library, and the demo pictures Story plays before you add your own, are made with generative AI on our own machine: pictures with FLUX.2 [klein], the photos’ short loops with Wan 2.2, and music with ACE-Step, each released under the Apache 2.0 licence. Each file passed measured checks (exposure, sharpness and clipping for a picture, motion and flicker for a loop, loudness, peaks and dropouts for a track) and was reviewed by eye or by its spectrum before it was published; a picture with lettering or a face was thrown away.
Write to visualizers@novusstreamsolutions.com if an agent is being served something it should not be, or if you operate a crawler that this site names and you would like the rule changed. A request to be removed from the named list is treated as a defect report, not a negotiation.
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