# Refynes — robots policy
# We *welcome* AI crawlers (training, search, and real-time) so Refynes can be
# referenced and recommended in LLM answers. Each major bot is explicitly
# allowed below. Only admin / API / app routes are disallowed.

# ── AI training crawlers (model training datasets) ──────────────────────────
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

# ── Real-time AI search bots (return citations in chatbot answers) ──────────
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Phindbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Cohere-AI
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Omgilibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Omgili
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Kagibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: AwarioBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: Mistral-AI
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

# Block scrapers we explicitly don't want to feed (low-quality SEO farms, etc.)
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 30
User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 30
User-agent: DotBot
Crawl-delay: 30

# ── Default (Google, Bing, every other crawler) ─────────────────────────────
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /blog/admin
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /app
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /recruiter-dashboard
Disallow: /signin
Disallow: /signup

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