# Knowles Teacher Initiative - robots.txt
# Purpose: keep full crawl access for search engines AND AI / answer engines (GEO).
# Prepared by Eastern Standard. Last updated 2026-06-24.
# Replaces the prior Yoast default (User-agent: * / Disallow:), which already
# allowed everything; the AI user-agents below are named explicitly to document
# that Knowles WANTS to be crawled and cited by generative engines.

# Default: allow all crawlers
User-agent: *
Disallow:

# --- AI / answer-engine crawlers: explicitly allowed ---
# OpenAI (ChatGPT search + training)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google AI (Gemini / AI Overviews training signal)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Microsoft / Bing (Copilot)
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

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