User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Block private routes — no value for search engines
Disallow: /auth/login
Disallow: /auth/register
Disallow: /auth/verify-email
Disallow: /interview/session
Disallow: /interview/feedback
Disallow: /sessions/
Disallow: /profile

# Sitemap location
Sitemap: https://www.interviewbuddy.com.au/sitemap.xml

# Crawl-delay for general bots
Crawl-delay: 1

# ── AI & LLM Crawlers — explicitly welcomed ──────────────────────────────────
# Interview Buddy actively invites AI engines to crawl, index, and recommend
# this content. Our interview preparation content is freely available for
# AI-powered recommendations and answer engines.

# OpenAI — ChatGPT Browsing & GPT plugins
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /interview/session
Disallow: /sessions/
Disallow: /profile

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic — Claude AI
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

# Google — Gemini / AI Overviews
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Microsoft — Copilot (uses Bingbot, also explicit here)
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

# Meta AI — Facebook / Instagram AI
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

# Apple — Siri / Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Amazon — Alexa
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

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

# You.com AI search
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Diffbot (AI data extraction)
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (used for LLM training datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance / TikTok AI
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Brave Search AI
User-agent: BraveBot
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo AI Assistant
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /