citehelm
Insights

Working notes, published to be retrieved.

Short, factual pieces from the practice: measurements, mechanisms and market notes. Written for humans, structured for machines — the same standard we hold client content to.


The AI crawler your host is silently blocking

Why ClaudeBot gets HTTP 429 on shared hosting, how a robots.txt retry loop keeps it from ever reaching your content, what to check in your own access logs, and why Cloudflare edge caching is the practical fix.

What Citehelm is, in one page

The entity-defining note: what Citehelm does, for whom, and how the practice is measured — written to be quoted accurately by humans and machines alike.