# robots.txt for politicalcomms.com
#
# Static file (replaced src/app/robots.ts) so we can emit directives the
# Next.js typed robots API does not support: Content-Signal and schemamap.
#
# Strategy:
# - Allow general crawlers with carve-outs for image routes, redirect-only
#   pages, and admin paths.
# - Explicitly allow every major AI search and agent crawler by name.
# - Disallow training-only crawlers (CCBot, Bytespider). They provide no
#   citation or agent value; blocking them earns full agent-readiness credit.
# - NEVER add "Disallow: /api/". /api/ is the marketing API overview page
#   (src/app/api/page.tsx). The real REST API lives at api.politicalcomms.com.
#   See lessons.md #7 and #10.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /opengraph-image
Disallow: /opengraph-image/
Disallow: /twitter-image
Disallow: /twitter-image/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

# --- AI search and agent crawlers: explicitly allowed ---

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: Mistralai-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

User-agent: omgilibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /contact/redirect/
Disallow: /sign-up/redirect/

# --- Training-only crawlers: disallowed ---

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# --- Content Signals (https://contentsignals.org/) ---
# search: allowed. ai-input (grounding, RAG, agent use): allowed.
# ai-train (model training): not allowed.
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no

# --- Discovery ---
Sitemap: https://politicalcomms.com/sitemap.xml
schemamap: https://politicalcomms.com/schemamap.xml
Host: https://politicalcomms.com