# The Carry - robots.txt
# Search engines and AI answer engines are welcome to crawl and cite the
# publication. The default rule below already allows every well-behaved bot;
# the named AI groups make that intent explicit (and survive any CDN/WAF that
# defaults to blocking unknown agents). The survey is per-subscriber, so it
# stays out of every index.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /survey/

# AI assistants and answer engines (Jun 2026). These are the crawlers that
# feed ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Apple/Bing answers - the ones
# that decide whether the publication gets cited. Explicitly allowed.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /survey/

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