# Niche robots.txt
#
# Crawlers and AI agents are welcome on the public surfaces: the briefings,
# the Learn library, pricing and the assistant docs. Signed-in and
# transactional routes are blocked (no useful signal, would waste budget).

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /account
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /settings/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /oauth/
Disallow: /follow/
Disallow: /preview
Disallow: /p/
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /run/
Disallow: /desk
Disallow: /chat

# AI crawlers, explicitly welcome on the public surfaces.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

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