# LiftSheet — robots.txt
#
# Permissive by design. Traditional search engines and AI search
# crawlers are explicitly welcome — discoverability via AI-driven
# answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) is increasingly
# important for indie apps and is being optimized for here.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Explicit allow for AI crawlers. Some sites block these by default;
# we don't, because AI-search citations are a discovery channel.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Sitemap + LLMs.txt — both are crawler hints.
Sitemap: https://liftsheet.app/sitemap.xml

# LLMs.txt is an emerging convention for LLM-friendly site summaries.
# Not part of the robots.txt spec, but several AI crawlers now check
# for /llms.txt before doing a full crawl.
# See: https://llmstxt.org