Rule aeo-013 · crawler_ops · high confidence

Configure robots.txt per AI crawler purpose (e.g. GPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot) — do not block search indexing bots by mistake.

Applies to: all

Why this matters

Official crawler docs separate training vs search use; wrong blocks remove you from retrieval.

Implementation

Type: not_automatable

Anti-pattern

Blanket Disallow on all bots without reviewing OAI-SearchBot / Perplexity-User.

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