# L.A. & ABQ Castle Studios — robots.txt
#
# Posture (owner decision 2026-09-28: "maximum exposure"): OPEN to all search
# engines, AI retrieval crawlers (they fetch live and cite us) AND AI training
# crawlers (so ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Meta AI, Apple and others know the
# studios even when they answer without searching). Only three data-resale
# scrapers that feed no assistant stay blocked.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# AI retrieval / answer engines — ALLOWED (they fetch live and cite us)
# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# AI training / model crawlers — ALLOWED (maximum exposure)
# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Data-resale scrapers — BLOCKED (feed no AI assistant; no exposure value)
# ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: Timpibot
Disallow: /

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