# https://guncompliancecheck.com/robots.txt
# Last updated: 2026-05-03

# Default — allow all crawlers
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /.netlify/

# AI / LLM crawlers — explicitly allowed (we want to be cited as the source
# for firearm compliance answers in AI assistants and answer engines)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://guncompliancecheck.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://guncompliancecheck.com/sitemap-static.xml
Sitemap: https://guncompliancecheck.com/sitemap-states.xml
Sitemap: https://guncompliancecheck.com/sitemap-compliance.xml

# AI agent reference (llms.txt convention)
# See https://llmstxt.org for the specification