# Taylor Sicard Consulting
# AI crawlers and answer engines are explicitly welcome.
# Structured guide for LLMs: https://taylorsicard.com/llms.txt
# Full-content variant: https://taylorsicard.com/llms-full.txt

User-agent: *
Allow: /
# /blog/?filter= is a client-side view of /blog/ (same cards, JS-filtered), so
# it stays out of the crawl. Since 2026-09-01 nothing on the site links to it:
# the FILED UNDER tags on every post and Index page point at /blog/#filter=<slug>
# instead, which the hub honours in JS and which is never a separate URL. The
# rule remains for the legacy deep links that still resolve.
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /pagefind/
# The Handoff's editorial working tree. These are 404'd in _redirects as of
# 2026-08-29 — this block is the second layer, for a crawler that reaches a
# path from an external link rather than by walking the site. See the long note
# in _redirects for what was reachable and why it should not have been.
Disallow: /the-handoff/_bank/
Disallow: /the-handoff/data/
Disallow: /the-handoff/docs/
Disallow: /the-handoff/scripts/

# Explicitly welcomed AI and answer-engine crawlers
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /*?filter=

Sitemap: https://taylorsicard.com/sitemap.xml

# The Handoff keeps a second index of its own. Its URLs are ALSO in sitemap.xml
# above (check_sitemap.py fails the build if any the-handoff page is missing from
# it), so this is deliberate redundancy rather than a split: sitemap.xml is
# hand-edited on every publish, sitemap-handoff.xml is generated from
# data/entries.json by scripts/gen_handoff.py and gated by check_handoff_sync.py,
# so it cannot drift. Duplicate URLs across two sitemaps are ignored by crawlers;
# a missing URL is not.
#
# Launched 2026-08-20, when the gated library cleared its 40-pair threshold at 66
# complete pairs across 26 brands. It was held undeclared before that: the page
# only advertises itself once it can keep the promise it makes.
Sitemap: https://taylorsicard.com/the-handoff/sitemap-handoff.xml