# SNACS.Trade robots.txt
# Policy: Allow search + AI answer bots, block training-only scrapers

# --- AI Search & Answer Bots (ALLOW) ---
# These power chatbot answers (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

# --- Google Gemini (ALLOW) ---
# Google-Extended controls Gemini chat grounding and Vertex AI. Unblocked
# Apr 15 (Sprint SEO-1) so Gemini can surface SNACS content in its answers.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

# --- AI Training-Only Scrapers (BLOCK) ---
# These only scrape for model training, not search/answers
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

# --- Search Engines (ALLOW) ---
# Standard crawlers — Google, Bing, etc.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/

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