# crestnotch.app
# Search engines and AI assistants are both welcome here. The AI crawlers are
# listed explicitly rather than left to the wildcard: several of them read only
# the group that names them, and a wildcard Disallow added later would silently
# cut the suite out of ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude answers.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# OpenAI: training, search index, and the live fetch a ChatGPT answer makes.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Google. Google-Extended is the Gemini and AI Overviews opt-in and is separate
# from Googlebot: blocking it removes the suite from AI answers but not search.
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Microsoft. Bingbot's index is also what Copilot answers from.
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Apple. Applebot-Extended is the Apple Intelligence opt-in.
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Common Crawl, which most open models are trained from.
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Meta: meta-externalagent crawls for Meta AI's answers and training,
# Meta-ExternalFetcher fetches a page a Meta AI user asked about.
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

# Other assistant crawlers
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /zacktheadmin
Disallow: /account

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