# traffordcrump.com — crawl policy
# GEO/AEO posture (COS-008): AI research & answer-engine crawlers are explicitly
# ALLOWED. The external-surfacing strategy depends on agent crawlability — surfacing
# high in agentic/generative research runs is the #1 objective, so allow is intended.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ── AI research & answer-engine crawlers (explicitly allowed) ──────────────────
# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google (AI/Gemini extended crawl)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (feeds many open models)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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