# The Fourth Stage — written by a human, readable by machines.
# AI crawlers that drive citations are welcome here.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Explicitly welcome AI search, citation, and training crawlers:
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

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