AI Graph tags
Open-Graph-style meta tags that tell AI crawlers how to read, summarize and cite each page.
The AI Graph is a small, open set of meta tags — like Open Graph, but for answer engines. They remove the guesswork when a model reads your page: what it is, how to summarize it, and who to credit.
This page covers the tags you’ll touch day to day. The full standard — all 20 tags, the required set, and governance — lives at its canonical home, askthis.dev/standard.
The tags
<meta property="ai:type" content="article">
<meta property="ai:summary" content="A step-by-step pour-over method using a 1:16 ratio.">
<meta property="ai:cite_as" content="Craft & Quill">
<meta property="ai:allow" content="summarize,cite,compare">| Tag | Purpose |
|---|---|
ai:type |
What the page is: article · product · business · service · saas · recipe · event · profile |
ai:summary |
Your one-sentence summary — the answer you want models to use |
ai:cite_as |
The name to attach to citations |
ai:allow |
Uses you welcome: summarize, cite, compare |
How AskThis generates them
You rarely write these by hand. The onboarding scan reads your key pages and proposes AI Graph tags per page; review and edit them under Prompts → AI Graph in the dashboard. The WordPress and Shopify plugins inject the approved tags into your <head> automatically. On a custom stack, copy the generated tags into your page templates — they must be server-rendered, since crawlers don’t reliably execute JavaScript.
Writing a good ai:summary
- Describe what is actually on the page, in one or two sentences.
- Be concrete: “A pour-over method using a 1:16 ratio” beats “The ultimate coffee guide.”
- Skip superlatives. Models cross-check the summary against the page content, and inflated metadata reads as spam.
Validating
Run the free AI score against any URL to check that tags are present, well-formed and consistent with the page content. The scan flags missing tags, summaries that drift from the page, and type mismatches (for example, a product page declared as article).