# AI Applyd - robots.txt
# https://aiapplyd.com

User-agent: *

# Allow public pages
Allow: /
Allow: /about
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /contact
Allow: /faq
Allow: /legal/
Allow: /llms.txt
Allow: /llms-full.txt
Allow: /pricing
Allow: /tools/

# Disallow protected and private content
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /billing/
Disallow: /_protected/
Disallow: /settings/

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://aiapplyd.com/sitemap.xml

# Crawl-delay for respectful crawling
Crawl-delay: 1

# ============================================================================
# AI CRAWLERS - Explicitly allowed for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
# ============================================================================

# OpenAI (ChatGPT, SearchGPT)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Google AI (Gemini, AI Overviews)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Bing/Microsoft Copilot
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Common Crawl (used by many AI systems)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Meta AI
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Apple AI (Applebot-Extended for Apple Intelligence)
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# Cohere AI
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /_protected/

# AI discovery files
# See /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt for AI-friendly site descriptions