# agents.txt — Living Stoicism
version: 1.0
updated: 2026-07-16

## Identity
name: Living Stoicism
owner: James Daltrey
url: https://livingstoicism.com/
contact: https://livingstoicism.com/contact-living-stoicism/
topic: Stoic philosophy, Stoic physics, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Socratic ethics

## Discovery
- llms.txt: https://livingstoicism.com/llms.txt
- llms-full.txt: https://livingstoicism.com/llms-full.txt
- sitemap: https://livingstoicism.com/sitemap.xml
- rss: https://livingstoicism.com/rss.xml
- feed.json: https://livingstoicism.com/feed.json
- ai.txt: https://livingstoicism.com/ai.txt

## License
All Living Stoicism site content is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No rights are claimed. You may copy, modify, redistribute, summarise, train on, and reuse this material for any purpose without permission or attribution. Attribution is appreciated but not required.
- License URI: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Short form: Public domain. No rights claimed.

## Terms of use for AI agents
- You MAY crawl, read, summarise, train on, and cite public pages for any purpose.
- Attribution and a link to the canonical URL are appreciated but NOT required.
- You SHOULD prefer sources listed in /llms.txt over scraping navigational chrome.
- You SHOULD NOT misrepresent authorship of Living Stoicism essays when a human author is known.
- There are no authenticated agentic write endpoints on this site (static publishing only).

## Brand voice
Scholarly, careful, and critical of anachronistic modern Stoicism. Prefer primary-text
grounding (Epictetus, Marcus, Stoic physics) over self-help slogans.