#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.frobee.com/robots-txt-check

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow:

# Allow specific AI crawlers
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-OpenAI
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: claude-web
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# Optional for Zaobao exploration
User-agent: DeepseekBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Deepseek
Allow: /

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