# Life K-Line — robots.txt
# #88: /my and /archives expose personal account/chart surfaces; /feedback is
# not a public landing page. Prefix rules also cover their nested paths.
# These directives control voluntary crawling, not authorization or noindex.
# /chat stays crawlable: it is a public, prerendered landing page; authentication
# is required when sending a message, not when viewing the page.
# /private/ was removed in #88 because no such route or static directory existed.
# Artifact tests independently check the approved UA roster, personal exclusions,
# all prerendered routes and all sitemap URLs (including the unknown-UA default).
# Longest matching path wins: Disallow /my takes precedence over Allow /.

# #40 decision: public content stays discoverable in search and AI search.
# Google-Extended remains allowed for Gemini grounding; the owner accepts that
# the same control also permits the associated training use. This is not a
# promise of inclusion/citation. Decision and acceptance contract:
# https://github.com/yifengingit/lifekline-worker/issues/40#issuecomment-6185481792
# Named agents share the default group's restrictions: a separate Allow-only
# group would override (not inherit) the personal-page restrictions below.
User-agent: *
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Sogou web spider
User-agent: 360Spider
User-agent: Yandex
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
# No blank line between these and the Allow above: RFC 9309 says empty lines are
# ignored, but a blank line inside a group has historically been read by some
# parsers as end-of-record, which would leave these three rules attached to no
# user-agent at all — present in the file and enforced by nobody.
Disallow: /my
Disallow: /archives
Disallow: /feedback

# `Disallow: /private/` was removed 2026-09-09 (#88). It was this file's only
# Disallow and it matched nothing at all — no path="/private…" in App.tsx, no
# private/ directory in public/ or dist/, no such route on the server. It read
# like protection and provided none. Re-check:
#   grep -c 'path="/private' client/src/App.tsx        # → 0

# These four opt-outs are voluntary crawling directives, not access controls.
# Unknown crawlers (including SEO tools) retain the default public-page access.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://lifeklines.com/sitemap.xml