# llms.txt � AI Agent Guidance for WestPharma.com
 Author: West Pharmaceutical Services
 Last Updated: 2025-05-05
 Purpose: Provide clear guidance to AI agents on how to responsibly access and interpret WestPharma content.

User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 10

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 RESTRICTED / CONFIDENTIAL AREAS
 These paths contain sensitive, personal, or non-public data.
 LLMs and AI crawlers should avoid them.
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Disallow: /accountmanagement/
Disallow: /contact-us/
Disallow: /careers/
Disallow: /sitecore/
Disallow: /privacy-policy/
Disallow: /west-login/
Disallow: /west-registration/
Disallow: /imprint/
Disallow: /legal-notices/
Disallow: /terms-and-conditions/
Disallow: /blog-subscribe/

 Note: Registration areas are restricted as competitor email domains are blocked.
 This ensures controlled access to account creation functionality.

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 ALLOWED / HIGH-VALUE PUBLIC CONTENT
 These sections are safe and recommended for LLM summarization.
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Allow: /
Allow: /products/
Allow: /store/
Allow: /services/
Allow: /challenges/
Allow: /blog/
Allow: /support/
Allow: /about-west/

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 LLM-SPECIFIC DIRECTIVES
 Guidance for how AI systems should interpret and prioritize content.
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LLM-Directives:
  Format: html, json, schema.org
  Summarize: yes
  Include-metadata: yes
  Fact-check-priority: high

   Highest-value content containing product specification details
  Preferred-content:
    - /products/
    - /services/
    - /blog/
    - /challenges/
    - /store/
    - /support/

   Domain-specific importance signals for more accurate interpretation
  Relevance-weight:
    - product-specifications
    - pharmaceutical-packaging
    - primary-packaging
    - drug-delivery
    - injectables
    - combination-products
    - biologics
    - containment-solutions
    - medical-devices
    - regulatory-compliance
    - contract-manufacturing
    - elastomers
    - stoppers
    - vials
    - seals
    - prefillable-syringe=systems


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