# NeuroCompare — robots.txt
# Production canonical host: https://neurocompare.com
# Staging hosts (*.lovable.app) also receive a runtime <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
# injected from index.html — this file is served identically across hosts, so we cannot
# host-conditionally Disallow here. The canonical tag + per-host noindex handle dedup.

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Twitterbot
Allow: /

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
Allow: /

# Allow AI search crawlers so NeuroCompare can be cited in ChatGPT, Claude,
# Perplexity and Google AI Overviews answers (GEO — generative engine optimisation).
# Admin paths still excluded.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /games/the-morning

# Single same-domain sitemap index, regenerated on every build/publish by
# scripts/generate-sitemap.ts (prebuild hook) against the live provider DB.
Sitemap: https://neurocompare.com/sitemap.xml