# HyperContent.AI — robots.txt
# Generated: 2026-06-23
# Spec: https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

# ── Search engines ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_astro/
Disallow: /brand/
Sitemap: https://hypercontent.ai/sitemap-index.xml

# ── Google ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Google AI Overviews crawler — allow indexing, allow AI training
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# ── Bing / Microsoft ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# ── OpenAI ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# GPTBot  = training crawler (opt-in: we allow, builds citation likelihood)
# OAI-SearchBot = ChatGPT Search real-time retrieval
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

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

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

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

# ── Apple ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# ── Meta / Facebook ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# ── Common AI research crawlers ───────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# ── Cloudflare verification bots (do NOT block) ───────────────────────────────
User-agent: Cloudflare-SSLDetector
Allow: /

# ── Archive ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: ia_archiver
Allow: /