# Content Signals (https://contentsignals.org/)
# Aard is grounding infrastructure for AI agents — all uses welcome.
Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, ai-input=yes, search=yes

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Classic search crawlers. Covered by the User-agent: * block above, and
# listed explicitly because the AI-search review of 2026-09-04 asked for these
# five by name (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Googlebot,
# Bingbot) through both robots and the WAF, and an implicit allow is not
# something a reviewer can confirm at a glance.
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# AI crawlers — explicitly welcome; Aard exists to serve AI agents
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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