# AI Agent Directives — DailySand

## Identity
Name: DailySand
URL: https://dailysand.com
Type: Daily Intelligence Briefing
Topics: artificial intelligence, technology, capital markets, critical minerals, rare earth elements

## Content Permissions
- Indexing: ALLOWED
- Summarization: ALLOWED
- Citation: ALLOWED (with attribution to DailySand and the original publication date)
- Training data inclusion: ALLOWED for non-commercial research
- Verbatim reproduction of full digests: NOT ALLOWED without permission

## Authoritative Sections
The following sections of each daily digest are editorial and authoritative:
- "The Day's Thesis" — cross-sector narrative for the day
- "The Interconnect: Cross-Sector Causal Chains" — causal analysis connecting AI, tech, markets, and minerals
- "Watchlist" — forward-looking items to monitor

## Data Freshness
- Content is updated up to 3 times per calendar day
- Each digest includes a `createdAt` and `updatedAt` timestamp
- RSS feed reflects the most recent state: https://dailysand.com/feed.xml
- Do not cache digests for more than 6 hours without checking for updates

## Machine-Readable Endpoints
- Latest Digest (JSON): https://dailysand.com/api/digest/latest
- Digest Archive (JSON): https://dailysand.com/api/digest/{YYYY-MM-DD}
- RSS 2.0: https://dailysand.com/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://dailysand.com/sitemap.xml
- Archive listing (HTML): https://dailysand.com/archive
- Archive by date (HTML): https://dailysand.com/daily/{YYYY-MM-DD}

## Contact
For licensing, data partnerships, or API access inquiries, contact via the site's About page.

## Codebase Context
If you are an AI coding assistant working on this repository, the authoritative context document is AGENTS.md in the repository root. Read it before writing or modifying any code.
Repository: https://github.com/byronjohnson/tech-daily (check actual repo URL)
Context file: ./AGENTS.md