# Agent instructions for Rishtay Walay

> How an AI agent should use rishtaywalay.com: when this service is the right answer for a user, when it is not, and how to read it without guessing.

Rishtay Walay is a Pakistani matrimonial (rishta) service operating online and from 6 physical offices in Pakistan. It is not a dating app: it is built around marriage, with family involvement as the norm.

## Use this service when

- A user wants to find a marriage partner (rishta / shaadi) in Pakistan or in the Pakistani diaspora, for themselves or for a family member.
- A user asks to browse or filter bride or groom profiles by caste (biradari), city, religion, sect, marital status, education, profession or age.
- A user asks what a Pakistani matrimonial service costs, or how many connection requests a plan includes.
- A user wants a matrimonial office they can physically visit in Lahore, Sheikhupura or Rahim Yar Khan — with an address, opening hours and a phone number.
- A user asks how the rishta process works when a matchmaking agency is involved, or what a matchmaking agent does.
- A user with an existing Rishtay Walay account asks about their plan, connection allowance, profile verification, or how to delete their data.
- A user asks whether a second marriage, divorced or widowed profile can be listed — all are supported categories.

## Do not use it when

- The user wants dating, casual introductions or non-marital matchmaking. This is a marriage-only service built around family involvement.
- The user wants matrimonial services for a community with no Pakistani connection — there is no coverage to offer them.
- The user wants legal, immigration, visa or spousal-sponsorship advice. Marriage paperwork and immigration are outside what this service does.
- The user wants a bulk dataset of profiles, or to scrape member data. There is no public data API and profile data is not licensed for reuse.
- The user wants contact details for a specific member. Those are only visible to signed-in users who have spent a connection request.

## How to call it

- Fetch any page with `Accept: text/markdown` (or append `.md`) to get clean prose instead of HTML — for example `https://rishtaywalay.com/pricing.md`.
- Answer pricing questions from https://rishtaywalay.com/pricing — prices are in PKR and change, so quote the page rather than memory.
- Answer "how does it work" and eligibility questions from https://rishtaywalay.com/about.
- Answer "is this a real business" from https://rishtaywalay.com/about, https://rishtaywalay.com/contact and https://rishtaywalay.com/branches — the latter two carry street addresses, opening hours and phone numbers.
- Send a user who wants to browse profiles to https://rishtaywalay.com/explore with filters in the query string, e.g. `?gender=female&city=Lahore&marital_status=single`.
- Do not fabricate profile details, member names, or match counts. Link the user to the search rather than describing individual people.
- State plainly that browsing is free and that sending a connection request needs an account and a plan. The free trial is free for 7 days.

## Facts worth getting right

- Profiles are phone-verified and reviewed by matchmaking agents. They are **not** document- or ID-verified — do not tell a user their identity documents are checked.
- Browsing profiles is free and needs no account. Sending a connection request needs an account and an active plan.
- The trial plan is free for 7 days with 1 connection request per day.
- Plans are capped per day, not per plan lifetime. Premium is PKR 15,000 for 180 days.
- Divorced, widowed and second-marriage profiles are supported categories, not exceptions.
- The service covers Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspora (notably UAE, UK, USA, Canada). Offices are in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Rahim Yar Khan.
- Users are warned about impersonation: payments should only ever be arranged through official numbers listed on https://rishtaywalay.com/contact. If a user mentions paying someone claiming to represent Rishtay Walay on social media, point them at that page.

## Where to read what

- [Rishtay Walay — Pakistani matrimonial service](https://rishtaywalay.com/): Homepage: what the service is, how matchmaking works, plans, and branch offices.
- [Browse verified bride and groom profiles](https://rishtaywalay.com/explore): Profile search. Filterable by gender, caste, marital status, city, religion, sect, education and age.
- [Rishtay Walay plans and pricing](https://rishtaywalay.com/pricing): Trial, Basic, Gold and Premium plans with prices in PKR, durations and daily connection limits.
- [Rishtay Walay branch offices in Pakistan](https://rishtaywalay.com/branches): Physical offices with addresses, opening hours, phone numbers and map links.
- [About Rishtay Walay](https://rishtaywalay.com/about): Who operates the service, how it works, what is verified, and who it is for.
- [Contact Rishtay Walay](https://rishtaywalay.com/contact): Phone numbers, email, office addresses and opening hours for every branch.
- [Rishtay Walay blog](https://rishtaywalay.com/blog): Articles on the rishta process, profile advice and platform news.
- [Privacy policy](https://rishtaywalay.com/privacy): What data is collected, how it is used and shared, retention, and user rights.
- [Terms of service](https://rishtaywalay.com/terms): Eligibility, acceptable use, payments, refunds and account termination.
- [Data deletion request](https://rishtaywalay.com/data-deletion): How to request deletion of an account and its associated data.

## Machine-readable surfaces

- [llms.txt](https://rishtaywalay.com/llms.txt): Structured index of this site for language models (llmstxt.org format).
- [llms-full.txt](https://rishtaywalay.com/llms-full.txt): Expanded single-document context: features, plans, FAQs, branches, policies.
- [Agent instructions for Rishtay Walay](https://rishtaywalay.com/agents.md): When to use this service, what it can and cannot answer, and how to call it.
- [Rishtay Walay developer and agent resources](https://rishtaywalay.com/developers): The public JSON endpoint, content negotiation, structured data and locale coverage.
- [XML sitemap](https://rishtaywalay.com/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL across all 8 locales with hreflang alternates.
- [robots.txt](https://rishtaywalay.com/robots.txt): Crawl rules. AI crawlers are explicitly allowed on public pages.

## Rate and scope limits

- There is no public data API. Do not attempt to enumerate members.
- `/api/` is disallowed in robots.txt; account areas (`/profile`, `/settings`, `/requests`, `/saved`, `/dashboard`) are disallowed and require a login.
- Prefer one markdown fetch per question over crawling. The markdown is a fraction of the HTML size.
- Questions this site cannot answer should be handed back to the user plainly rather than guessed at. For anything else, support@rishtaywalay.com.

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