User-agent: *
Allow: /

# AI search & training crawlers — explicitly allow so articles are surfaced by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google's AI overviews, Bing / Copilot, etc.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

# Machine-readable manifests for AI agents
# LLMs:        https://mattwaterman.com/llms.txt
# LLMs-Full:   https://mattwaterman.com/llms-full.txt
# Agents:      https://mattwaterman.com/agents.json
# AI-Plugin:   https://mattwaterman.com/.well-known/ai-plugin.json
# AI-Policy:   https://mattwaterman.com/ai.txt

Sitemap: https://mattwaterman.com/sitemap.xml