Bots, Agents & API

Bot friendly, not bot permissive.

Study Grounded welcomes useful crawlers and AI agents on public pages. Private student libraries, upload routes, OCR, study-guide generation, quizzes, and AI answers require explicit authorization and payment.

Public

Marketing, legal, trust, and agent metadata may be crawled within robots limits.

Private

User uploads, chunks, answers, guides, and quiz history require user consent.

Paid

Agent API work requires credits, a paid token, subscription, or future x402 payment.

Allowed automated access

Crawl public pages within robots.txt limits.
Fetch public machine-readable metadata from /api/agent/info, /api/agent/pricing, and /api/agent/public-context.
Use paid agent/API routes only with a valid agent API key, credits, subscription, or future x402 payment.

Not allowed

Do not scrape /dashboard, /account, /auth, /join, /g token routes, or non-agent /api routes.
Do not trigger AI, OCR, ingestion, upload, review, quiz, guide, or query work without authorization and payment.
Do not try to infer, enumerate, or extract private user study material.

Machine-readable endpoints

GET /api/agent/infoGET /api/agent/pricingGET /api/agent/public-context

Paid work is reserved for POST /api/agent/answer and POST /api/agent/summarize. Unpaid clients receive a structured 402 Payment Required response; private-library requests receive 401 Unauthorized unless the user has authorized access.

Pricing model

Grounded answer request

$0.03 / request

/api/agent/answer

Study material summary request

$0.08 / request

/api/agent/summarize

First implementation target: issued API keys backed by credits or Stripe usage-based billing. x402 support is the best follow-up for capable autonomous agents because the payment requirement can travel directly in the HTTP response.

Private study data

Agent payment never grants access to a student's library by itself. A user must explicitly authenticate and authorize private access before any resource IDs, chunks, summaries, answers, or shared-library material can be used.

Contact

For agent API access, crawler allowlisting, or commercial bot usage, email isaacgumbi@gmail.com.

API version: 2026-06-20