# robots.txt — synamoto.com
# SYNAMOTO is a declared AI universe built for machine readability.
# All crawlers are welcome. All content is C2PA signed and declared AI.
# Last updated: 2026-09-17

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# GLOBAL — allow all crawlers by default
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /zzz-*

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# GOOGLE — search + AI
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User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Allow Google AI Overviews, Gemini grounding, Vertex AI
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

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# OPENAI — training + search + user-triggered
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User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

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# ANTHROPIC — training + search + user-triggered
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User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# Legacy Anthropic agents — still seen in logs
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: claude-web
Allow: /

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# PERPLEXITY — search index + user-triggered
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User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

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# MICROSOFT — Bing + Copilot
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User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: BingPreview
Allow: /

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# APPLE — search + Apple Intelligence training
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User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

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# META — training + Meta AI search
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User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-webindexer
Allow: /

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# AMAZON — Alexa + Amazon AI services
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User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

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# BYTEDANCE — TikTok AI systems
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User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

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# COHERE — AI retrieval
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User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

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# COMMON CRAWL — open dataset, feeds many AI systems
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User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

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# ADDITIONAL AI RESEARCH CRAWLERS
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User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

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# SITEMAPS
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