# theartofservice.com
# Served as a physical file from /public, so it returns a direct HTTP 200 with
# no CMS redirect in front of it. Crawlers tolerate a redirected robots.txt
# badly. Verify with: curl -sSI https://theartofservice.com/robots.txt

# Traditional crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /studio
Disallow: /api

# --- AI answer engines: retrieval and citation ---
# A blocked crawler cannot retrieve, and what it cannot retrieve it cannot cite.
# These are the agents that fetch a page in order to ground an answer.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

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