# AI Crawler Policy for Sondero (https://sondero.ai)
# Last updated: 2026-04-29
# Format: https://specs.openai.com/ai-txt (de facto standard)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------
# Citations: ALLOWED for all major AI search engines.
# Training: NOT ALLOWED. Sondero content may not be used to train
# foundation models or be ingested into training datasets.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------

# AI search citation bots — explicitly allowed
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

# AI training data crawlers — disallowed
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Default for everything else: allow (matches robots.txt)
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Reference resources
Sitemap: https://sondero.ai/sitemap.xml
Contact: contact@sondero.ai
LLMs-File: https://sondero.ai/llms.txt