# robots.txt – Carrigan Painting (updated 2025-09-06)

# --- Global Rules --------------------------------------------------
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 5

# --- AI & LLM Crawlers ---------------------------------------------

# OpenAI GPTBot
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
ai: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/ai.txt

# Anthropic Claude
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
ai: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/ai.txt

# Apple AI (experimental LLM variant)
User-agent: AppleBot
Allow: /
ai: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/ai.txt

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
ai: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/ai.txt

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
ai: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/ai.txt

# --- Blocked AI Indexing Bots --------------------------------------

# Common Crawl / Amazon dataset bot
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

# Facebook AI (LLM research)
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

# LinkedIn AI bots
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: NeevaBot
Disallow: /

# --- Sitemap Declarations ------------------------------------------
Sitemap: https://www.carriganpainting.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://blog.carriganpainting.com/sitemap_index.xml