# evenness.rocks — robots.txt
# Last reviewed: 2026-07-22 · Review quarterly; this list changes often.
#
# POLICY: retrieval is not ingestion.
#   ALLOWED  — fetching a page to answer a live question and cite us.
#              That is distribution, and we want it.
#   BLOCKED  — bulk collection to train a model.
#              That is a different act, and it needs a separate conversation.
#
# This file must stay consistent with the Terms of Use. If the Terms forbid
# all automated collection, they contradict the permissions granted below.

# ─── Conventional search ───────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# ─── Retrieval & citation — ALLOWED ────────────────────────────────
# These fetch pages to answer a question and link back. Blocking them
# removes Evenness from AI answers entirely.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# ─── User-triggered fetches — ALLOWED ──────────────────────────────
# A person asked their assistant to open our page. Blocking these breaks
# a real human's request, which is the opposite of what we build for.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

# ─── Model training — NOT PERMITTED ────────────────────────────────
# Bulk ingestion into training corpora. Refusing these does not affect
# whether we can be cited in AI answers.
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

# (Applebot itself is allowed via the wildcard group below. Naming it
#  explicitly would shadow this Extended rule in prefix-matching parsers.)
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: img2dataset
Disallow: /

# ─── Everything else ───────────────────────────────────────────────
# Deliberately permissive. A blanket Disallow here is the most common way
# sites accidentally make themselves invisible to answer engines.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Allow: /

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