User-agent: *
Allow: /

# AI / answer-engine crawlers are explicitly welcome (July 17 2026 competitive
# audit: answer engines increasingly decide "best AI engraving tool" queries,
# and the strongest depth-map competitor already allowlists these by name).
# The wildcard group above already permits them — these named groups make the
# policy explicit and survive any future tightening of the wildcard rules.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Private/authenticated-only routes are intentionally NOT Disallow'd here.
# Every one of them already carries an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header
# (firebase.json) — letting crawlers fetch the page and see that definitive
# signal is safer than blocking the fetch outright: a Disallow'd URL that
# picks up an external inbound link can still show as "Indexed, though
# blocked by robots.txt" in Search Console, because Google never got to see
# the noindex tag that would have dropped it for certain (2026-07-16 SEO gap
# analysis, P2-24). /admin, /profile, /armory, /shop-manager, /mobile-upload,
# /welcome, /quote, /login all resolve this way.

Sitemap: https://reticle-red.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://reticle-red.com/image-sitemap.xml
# Video sitemap (2026-09-19 SEO + AICRO audit, R13): Google reads video
# sitemaps separately from page sitemaps, so a video hub without one is
# eligible for video results only if the crawler renders and believes the embed.
Sitemap: https://reticle-red.com/video-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://reticle-red.com/live-content-sitemap.xml