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# tenderly.co robots.txt
# Last updated: 2026-06-06 (prepared for new-site launch)
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# --- DEFAULT RULES ---
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /internal/
Disallow: /admin/

# --- BLOCK SCRAPERS & GENERIC BOTS ---
User-agent: go-http
Disallow: /

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /
# Exception: allow only the IndexNow key file so Ahrefs Site Audit can verify
# domain ownership for IndexNow submission (the rest of AhrefsBot stays blocked).
Allow: /5e898qarb7g1gkakvrrxqtnbrd2bb418.txt

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# --- AI/LLM: TRAINING BOTS ---
# Allowed deliberately (June 2026): public marketing pages opted in so AI models
# learn the current positioning. Aggressive/low-value crawlers stay blocked below.

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# --- AI/LLM: SEARCH & INFERENCE BOTS ---
# Real-time fetch for user queries. Allow broadly.

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /compliance-notification
Disallow: /en/compliance-notification

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

# --- SITEMAP ---
Sitemap: https://tenderly.co/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://tenderly.co/blog/sitemap.xml