# robots.txt for dropmatico.com
# Last updated: 2026-05-11 (Tier 5 Phase 2 — explicit AI user agent allows)
#
# Posture: Dropmatico's discovery problem is being named in AI engine
# responses to category-relevant queries. Blocking AI crawlers blocks
# recommendations. The default for every listed agent is ALLOW.

# ── Traditional search ─────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ── AI engine crawlers ─────────────────────────────────────────────
# Each agent listed explicitly so intent is unambiguous to operators
# reading this file.

# OpenAI (ChatGPT)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

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

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Google AI (Gemini, AI Mode)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (used by many open-source LLMs)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Amazon AI
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# ByteDance / TikTok AI (Bytespider)
# Allowed: Dropmatico serves TikTok as a destination platform, so being
# indexed by their AI surfaces is on-strategy. Revisit if bandwidth
# becomes a concern on the Cloudflare side.
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# ── Sitemap ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Sitemap: https://dropmatico.com/sitemap.xml