robots.txt tells crawlers what they may read. security.txt tells researchers where to report a flaw. The Decision Rights file tells a person, a regulator or an AI agent which decisions an organisation makes about people by machine, where to ask about them, and how to get a human to look again.
https://yourdomain/.well-known/ai-decisions.json
Ask Why routes requests with it. AI assistants read it before helping someone challenge a decision. Anyone can check it.
Free and open. Anyone may publish it, read it or build tools on it.
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| format | Always ai-decisions/1. |
| organisation | Legal name of the organisation responsible. |
| rights_contact | email and/or url where requests about automated decisions go. |
| human_review | how a person gets a review, and an optional url. |
| response_days | Days you commit to answer within. The law allows one month. |
| decisions[] | Each significant decision: id, name, solely_automated, significant, main_factors[], human_review, optional sealed_by. |
| statement | Optional plain-words statement. |
| updated | Date of the last change. |
| sebbi_askwhy_claim | Optional. Verifies your Ask Why inbox. |
JSON Schema: https://sebbi.pro/askwhy/ai-decisions.schema.json
sebbi.pro publishes its own at https://sebbi.pro/.well-known/ai-decisions.json:
{
"format": "ai-decisions/1",
"organisation": "Monop Content (sebbi.pro)",
"domain": "sebbi.pro",
"rights_contact": {
"email": "justin@monopcontent.com",
"url": "https://sebbi.pro/askwhy"
},
"human_review": {
"how": "Write to the rights contact. A person reads every message.",
"url": "https://sebbi.pro/askwhy"
},
"response_days": 30,
"decisions": [],
"statement": "sebbi.pro makes no significant automated decisions about people. It scores, seals and proves decisions for its customers, who remain responsible for the decisions they make.",
"updated": "2026-11-01",
"spec": "https://sebbi.pro/askwhy/standard"
}