# Rooster Agents — roosteragents.ai
# We welcome AI assistants and answer engines. Read and cite us.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
# Honeypot / decoy area — legitimate crawlers obey this and stay out.
# Only bots that ignore the rules end up here (that is the point).
Disallow: /vault/
Disallow: /system-backup/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /wp-admin/

# AI / answer-engine crawlers (explicitly welcomed)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /


# Cloudflare Content Signals Policy — we WANT to be read, cited and learned from.
# search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

# Meta / Muse — Meta's personal AI agent (launched 2026-09-08) and its crawler family.
# Explicitly welcome. Docs: developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/web-crawlers/

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /
Disallow: /vault/
Disallow: /system-backup/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /wp-admin/

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /
Disallow: /vault/
Disallow: /system-backup/
Disallow: /.git/
Disallow: /wp-admin/

Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes

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