# Search engines, AI assistants, and agents are welcome to read this site.
# Query-string browse pages are excluded to avoid duplicate crawling; use
# https://www.joelcsaji.com/sitemap.xml and https://www.joelcsaji.com/llms.txt instead.
#
# Machine-readable entry points:
#   https://www.joelcsaji.com/llms.txt              site summary and page index for language models
#   https://www.joelcsaji.com/llms-full.txt         the about page, case studies, and every article as one document
#   https://www.joelcsaji.com/openapi.json          OpenAPI 3.1 contract for the read-only JSON API
#   https://www.joelcsaji.com/.well-known/ard.json  Agentic Resource Discovery catalog
#   https://www.joelcsaji.com/developers            developer portal (endpoints, rate limits, errors)
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog?*
Disallow: /ai-dictionary?*

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog?*
Disallow: /ai-dictionary?*

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /images/og/

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /images/og/

User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /images/og/

Sitemap: https://www.joelcsaji.com/sitemap.xml