---
title: "Answer-engine manifest with crawler policy, preferred citation targets, bounded APIs, and structured-data guidance."
method: GET
path: "/.well-known/answer-engine.json"
tags: ["Agent Docs"]
---

# Answer-engine manifest with crawler policy, preferred citation targets, bounded APIs, and structured-data guidance.

`GET /.well-known/answer-engine.json`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz`
- URL: `https://huggingbay.xyz/.well-known/answer-engine.json`
- Auth: none declared

Answer-engine manifest with crawler policy, preferred citation targets, bounded APIs, and structured-data guidance.

**Inputs.** No path or query fields are required. No request body is required.

**Outputs.** See each status below for its media type, schema and headers. A missing record or unavailable capability is not a successful empty result.

**Errors.** Read the status and Content-Type before decoding. Document, image, redirect and file routes need not return JSON errors.

**Rate limits.** Public read budgets apply by client IP and route group. This operation can have a smaller route-specific budget. Read Retry-After on 429 or retryable 503 responses.

## Response `200`

Answer engine manifest

- AnswerEngineManifest
  - `schemaVersion` 'hugging-bay.answer-engine.v1', required
  - `generatedAt` string, required
  - `name` string, required
  - `description` string, required
  - `homepage` string, required
  - `robots` string, required
  - `crawlerPolicy` string, required
  - `botAllowlist` string, required
  - `llms` object, required
  - `manifests` object, required
  - `answerPacks` object, required
  - `answerableIntents` object[], required
  - `boundedApis` object, required
  - `citationGuidance` string[], required
  - `structuredData` object, required

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/huggingbay/apis/hugging-bay-public-api/revisions/ea7ba26b1e27?raw)