# VelvetVault Robots.txt
# Protect client galleries and private routes from indexing
# Portfolio indexing is controlled per-photographer via page-level robots metadata

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Allow Googlebot-Image on public pages (private content is already
# blocked by the /g/, /api/, /dashboard/, /admin/ rules above)
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/

# =============================================
# AI Search Crawlers
# Allow AI search bots to index public content
# so VelvetVault appears in AI search results
# (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, etc.)
# =============================================

# OpenAI - ChatGPT Search
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# OpenAI - GPTBot (training + search data sharing with OAI-SearchBot)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Perplexity AI
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Google AI (Gemini)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Anthropic (Claude)
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Common Crawl (used by many AI models for training data)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /g/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /auth/

# Sitemap
Sitemap: https://velvetvault.app/sitemap.xml