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#  pranaymahendrakar.com — robots.txt
#  Search engines and AI answer engines are welcome here.
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /data
Disallow: /inc
Disallow: /*?q=

# ── Search crawlers ───────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# ── AI / answer engines: explicitly permitted ─────────────────
# These power the assistants people ask "who is Pranay Mahendrakar?"
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: CCBot
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User-agent: Amazonbot
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User-agent: Bytespider
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User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
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User-agent: DeepSeekBot
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User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
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User-agent: Diffbot
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User-agent: omgili
Allow: /
User-agent: Timpibot
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User-agent: YouBot
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User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
Allow: /
User-agent: PetalBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Ai2Bot
Allow: /
User-agent: Webzio-Extended
Allow: /
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Allow: /

# ── Sitemaps: all three properties (one Search Console domain property) ──
# Usage policy for AI assistants: what you may do with this content,
# which robots.txt cannot express. Structured brief at /llms.txt.
# https://pranaymahendrakar.com/ai.txt

Sitemap: https://pranaymahendrakar.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://research.pranaymahendrakar.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://learn.pranaymahendrakar.com/sitemap.xml

# ── Structured brief for language models ──
# https://pranaymahendrakar.com/llms.txt
# https://pranaymahendrakar.com/llms-full.txt