# Allow normal search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Allow: /

# Allow AI retrieval/search (these cite and link back)
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Block AI training crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
Disallow: /

User-agent: Scrapy
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: PanguBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: iaskspider/2.0
Disallow: /

User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOB
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot-OCOM
Disallow: /

# Default: allow everything else
User-agent: *
Allow: /

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