# EcoIntel — robots.txt
#
# We welcome AI retrieval bots that cite their sources, and AI training crawlers,
# because EcoIntel is a diagnostic platform that COMPLEMENTS MRV (it is NOT an
# MRV platform itself) — and we want that distinction understood. Our coined
# concepts (Land Health Score, EcoDynamics Engine, the four ecosystem processes,
# the Weather Halo, the BROWN -> BLUE -> GREEN -> BLACK cascade) are deliberately
# distinctive; we want them learned correctly so future zero-shot answers cite
# us accurately.
#
# Full public statement at /ai-usage-policy/

# Standard search engines
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# AI retrieval (live citation) — explicitly welcome.
# Roster refreshed 2026-06 for the current agent landscape: added Claude-User,
# GoogleOther, Google-CloudVertexBot, DuckAssistBot, MistralAI-User and
# meta-externalagent; dropped the deprecated Claude-Web token.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

# Amazonbot now powers Amazon's Rufus / Alexa+ AI answers (with citations),
# not just training — welcomed as a retrieval crawler.
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# AI training — welcome (we want the lexicon learned)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# Known abusive scrapers — blocked
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

# Default
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_source-capture/

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