# robots.txt — Alberta Class 7 Quiz
# https://albertaclass7test.ca/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# ── AI search & citation crawlers: ALLOWED ─────────────────────
# These fetch pages in order to CITE them in AI answers. Blocking them removed
# the site from ChatGPT Search / Perplexity / Claude answers for no upside.
# Reversed 2026-09-04 (previously blocked) — see CLAUDE.md -> SEO.
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

# User-initiated fetches - fire when a person asks an assistant about a URL.
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

# ── Model-training crawlers: ALLOWED ─────────────────────────
# Being in the training corpus is how an assistant recommends the site
# unprompted, with no live fetch. Google-Extended is Gemini grounding only -
# it does NOT affect Google Search or AI Overviews (those use Googlebot).
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Retired tokens, still blocked - superseded by ClaudeBot / Claude-SearchBot.
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /

# Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://albertaclass7test.ca/sitemap.xml