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#      use.
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#      corresponding use.
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# The content signals and their meanings are:

# search:   building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning
#           hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website's contents). Search does not
#           include providing AI-generated search summaries.
# ai-input: inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval
#           augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for
#           generative AI search answers).
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# BEGIN Cloudflare Managed content

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CloudflareBrowserRenderingCrawler
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

# END Cloudflare Managed Content

# =============================================================================
# WargameExclusive — AI-Optimized Promotional Site
# robots.txt — Bot Management Policy
# =============================================================================

# --- WELCOME: AI Search & Citation Bots ---
# These bots retrieve data for live citations in AI-generated answers.
# Full access granted to maximize brand visibility in AI responses.

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
# OpenAI search bot — powers ChatGPT web citations

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
# Perplexity AI search bot — primary AI search engine

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
# ChatGPT browsing mode — direct user-facing citations

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
# Apple Intelligence — Siri and Apple AI features

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
# Cohere RAG pipeline — enterprise AI search

# --- WELCOME: Training & Knowledge Bots ---
# These bots ingest data to improve future model knowledge.
# Access granted to ensure WargameExclusive is grounded in model weights.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
# OpenAI training crawler — improves future GPT knowledge of brand

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
# Anthropic training crawler — improves Claude's brand knowledge

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
# Google AI training — impacts Gemini and AI Overviews

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
# Amazon AI — product discovery and Alexa knowledge

# --- BLOCKED: High-Volume / Low-Citation Bots ---
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /
# Common Crawl — bulk scraper, no citation value

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /
# Meta AI training — high volume, lower citation value

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /
# TikTok/ByteDance crawler — not relevant to brand goals

# --- Standard Search Engine Crawlers ---
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

# --- Default: Allow ---
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# --- Sitemap ---
Sitemap: https://ai.wargameexclusive.com/sitemap.xml

# --- LLMs.txt Discovery ---
# AI agents: see /llms.txt for structured brand overview
# AI agents: see /llms-full.txt for complete knowledge base