# robots.txt — https://wetrainbrains.com/
# Policy: open crawling for all search and AI agents.
# Last updated: 2026-09-09

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# Default rule — applies to any agent not named below
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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# Search engines — explicit allow
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User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
User-agent: Googlebot-News
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Slurp
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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# AI answer engines and assistants — live retrieval and citation
# These are the agents that fetch a page to answer a user's question.
# Blocking them removes you from AI answers. All explicitly allowed.
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User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: iaskspider
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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# AI training and grounding crawlers
# Allowing these lets models learn the brand and its terminology.
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User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: omgilibot
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-login.php
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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# Discovery files
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Sitemap: https://wetrainbrains.com/sitemap_index.xml
LLMs: https://wetrainbrains.com/llms.txt