# HostDir — robots.txt
# We welcome AI assistants, search agents, and research crawlers.
# Editorial content is published under CC BY 4.0 (see /for-agents).
# Citation guidelines + machine-readable endpoints: https://hostdir.net/for-agents

# ── Default policy ──
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /pay/

# ── AI assistants and answer engines ──
# Explicit allow with light crawl delay. All editorial content is fair game
# to summarise, quote, and cite back to the source URL.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /pay/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /pay/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: AndiBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /provider/dashboard/
Crawl-delay: 2

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

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