# robots.txt — #788 AI-search visibility pass
#
# AI-visibility policy: ALLOW the citing/search crawlers that quote or link
# back to Quill (this is how agents and answer engines discover us), keep
# privacy/hostile scrapers out, and never block the machine-consumable
# surfaces (llms.txt, agents.json, sitemap).

# ── Search engines ──
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# ── AI answer/search crawlers (citing — they attribute sources) ──
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# ── Everything else: default allow with private-surface exclusions ──
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /dashboard
Allow: /docs
Allow: /agents
Allow: /explorer
Disallow: /workspace
Disallow: /ask
Disallow: /signal
Disallow: /v1/billing/
Disallow: /v1/keys
Disallow: /v1/auth/
Disallow: /v1/me

Sitemap: https://quill.maplespike.ca/sitemap.xml