User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /api/mcp
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

# Agent / MCP directory crawlers
User-agent: SmitheryBot
Allow: /api/mcp
Allow: /api/v1/mcp
Allow: /.well-known/
Allow: /openapi.json
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /AGENTS.md
Allow: /docs/

User-agent: *
Allow: /api/mcp
Allow: /.well-known/
Allow: /openapi.json
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /AGENTS.md

# Do not add a Googlebot-only group that only sets Crawl-delay — Google uses the
# most specific matching group, and a delay-only block inherits no Allow (Apr 2026
# Search Console: "Blocked by robots.txt" on public pages). Google ignores
# Crawl-delay for Googlebot anyway. Public pages including /on-this-day stay Allow.

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

# Block aggressive SEO/scraper bots
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ZoominfoBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# Keep bulk training scrapers off (low-quality / abusive)
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# AI browse + citation crawlers — same public surface as humans (people, /ai, discovery).
# Private app paths remain Disallow. Enables ChatGPT / Claude / Perplexity / Gemini pickup.
# /people/compare is a client tool (empty until users pick people) and combinatorial (?a=&b=);
# keep profiles crawlable, block training crawlers from the compare URL storm.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

# Meta training / preview agent — same compare storm + was sole crawler of /people/null
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /welcome/
Disallow: /edit-profile/
Disallow: /people/compare
Disallow: /people/null
Disallow: /people/undefined
Disallow: /landing/control

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