# Default policy: allow everything except admin and API endpoints.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# --- Search engines ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# --- Generative engines and AI answer crawlers ---
# Explicitly opt in so VIXSOUND can be cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity,
# Google AI Overviews, and similar surfaces. Each bot is named so future
# default behavior changes (some default to Disallow) don't lock us out.

# OpenAI: search index for ChatGPT browsing/answer surfaces.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# OpenAI: model training crawler.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# OpenAI: ChatGPT plugins / live browsing.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Anthropic: Claude crawlers.
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Perplexity: index crawler + live answer fetch.
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# DuckDuckGo AI assist.
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Google: separate token controls inclusion in Gemini / AI Overviews.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Apple Intelligence.
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Common Crawl (used by many open-source LLM training sets).
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Meta (LLaMA training crawler + AI agent).
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Amazon (Alexa / Nova answer surfaces).
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Google Vertex AI grounding fetch.
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Cohere.
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

# Mistral.
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api/

Sitemap: https://vixsound.com/sitemap.xml

# LLM / answer-engine indexes (https://llmstxt.org)
# https://vixsound.com/llms.txt
# https://vixsound.com/llms-full.txt