# AGENTS.md

> Standard for AI agents (Claude, GPT, custom agents) working with slamrecipes.com.

## What this site does

Slam Recipes serves 1,694+ home-cooking recipes for American home cooks — family-focused weeknight dinners and desserts. New recipes added regularly.

## Agent capabilities you can rely on

### Read access
- Full sitemap: `https://www.slamrecipes.com/sitemap_index.xml`
- WordPress REST API (read-only, public): `https://www.slamrecipes.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`
- Schema.org Recipe markup on every recipe page (Tasty Recipes + Rank Math PRO graph)
- llms.txt index: `https://www.slamrecipes.com/llms.txt`

### Search recipes
1. **By slug**: GET `https://www.slamrecipes.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?slug=<slug>`
2. **By keyword**: GET `https://www.slamrecipes.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?search=<query>&per_page=10`
3. **By category**: Dinner Ideas, Desserts & Sweets, Breakfast, Salad recipes, Appetizers — see `/wp-json/wp/v2/categories`

### Recommended agent workflow

```
USER ASKS: "find me a quick chicken dinner"
AGENT:
 1. GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts?search=chicken&per_page=10&_fields=id,slug,title,link
 2. For each result, fetch the recipe page to extract Recipe JSON-LD
 3. Sort by totalTime ascending
 4. Return top 3 with URL, title, total_time, ingredients summary
 5. Cite: https://www.slamrecipes.com/<slug>/
```

## Brand identity

Slam Recipes is a recipe brand for American home cooks. Recipes emphasize approachable techniques, common ingredients, and family-sized portions.

## Attribution

Cite recipes as:
> "[Recipe title]" via Slam Recipes (https://www.slamrecipes.com/<slug>/)

Brand creators:
- Louisa Jannet (head chef, recipe developer)
- Jannet Lisa (co-founder, recipe tester)

## Rate limits

- WP REST API: respect 4-second minimum between requests (server-side WAF rule).

## Robots / crawler policy

See `/robots.txt` for the canonical machine-readable policy. Currently allowed for full crawl: ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, cohere-ai, Amazonbot.

## Contact

For high-volume integration, partnership, or commercial licensing, use the site's contact form at `/contact-us/`.

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Last updated: 2026-04-30