# robots.txt for veidne.com
# Posture: open. Veidne wants maximum visibility in AI assistants and search,
# so all major AI crawlers (training and retrieval) and the standard search
# engines are allowed. Reminder: robots.txt is a request, not enforcement.
# Cloudflare's "Block AI bots" setting can override this at the network layer,
# so confirm it is set to "Do not block" (see the step 2 notes).

# --- OpenAI (ChatGPT) ---
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# --- Anthropic (Claude) ---
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# --- Perplexity ---
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# --- Google (Gemini and AI Overviews training opt-in;
#     allowing this does not affect normal Google Search ranking) ---
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# --- Apple (Siri and Apple Intelligence) ---
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# --- Common Crawl (a training source for many models) ---
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# --- Everything else ---
User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://veidne.com/sitemap.xml