# EMPIST — https://empist.com/
# Allow search + AI answer engines. Block studio / internal tooling only.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /design-guide
Disallow: /design-guide/
Disallow: /export/
Disallow: /search-index.json

# OpenAI (ChatGPT Search / training crawlers)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google Gemini / AI Overviews training & grounding
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence / Applebot extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (often used by research / AI datasets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

# Bytespider (ByteDance) — allow for discovery; tighten later if needed
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Curated AI citation map
# https://empist.com/llms.txt

Sitemap: https://empist.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://empist.com/sitemap-index.xml