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Update robots crawler policy #67

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Update crawler and AI bot policy
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Keep Meta user retrieval crawler explicit
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# DEV LEDGER — crawler policy
# Public product and documentation pages are intentionally discoverable.
# Authenticated application surfaces, API routes, and telemetry relays are not.
# Updated: 2026-09-28
# Public product, documentation, security, legal, and journal pages are discoverable.
# Authenticated application surfaces, APIs, and telemetry relays are not.
# Search and answer-engine discovery is allowed.
# Dedicated model-training/data-corpus crawlers are blocked.
# Updated: 2026-10-04


# ==================================================
# DEFAULT POLICY
# ==================================================

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# GOOGLE SEARCH
# ==================================================

User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-Video
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# MICROSOFT BING
# ==================================================

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# DUCKDUCKGO
# ==================================================

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# YANDEX
# ==================================================

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# BAIDU
# ==================================================

User-agent: Baiduspider
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# OPENAI — SEARCH / RETRIEVAL
# ==================================================

# AI search, answer, retrieval, and model crawlers.
# Discoverability-first policy: public pages are allowed; private/app surfaces remain blocked.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# ANTHROPIC — SEARCH / USER RETRIEVAL
# ==================================================

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# PERPLEXITY — SEARCH / RETRIEVAL
# ==================================================

User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# APPLE SEARCH
# ==================================================

User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: meta-webindexer
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# META — USER RETRIEVAL
# Allow user-requested fetching while keeping Meta's
# dedicated training/indexing agents blocked below.
# ==================================================

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /rly/
Disallow: /overview
Disallow: /projects
Disallow: /activity
Disallow: /code
Disallow: /shipping


# ==================================================
# MODEL TRAINING / DATA-CORPUS CRAWLERS
# ==================================================

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Disallow: /


# ==================================================
# SITEMAP
# ==================================================

Sitemap: https://devledger.site/sitemap.xml
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