# Eye Care Billing Consultants — robots.txt
#
# FLEET AI-CRAWLER POLICY — harmonized 2026-07-28, identical across all six brands.
# Stance: "citable, not trainable". Every brand is indexable and readable by answer
# engines, while declining training use via the Content Signals Policy
# (https://contentsignals.org). Enforcement lives beside this file: Cloudflare's
# `ai_bots_protection` is disabled fleet-wide, so AI crawlers are not 403'd at the
# edge — previously cbs/prs/smb blocked them outright, making their content
# uncitable.
#
# There are deliberately NO per-bot groups. `User-agent: *` already covers every
# crawler, and adding a per-bot group would silently stop `Disallow: /api/` from
# applying to that bot: robots.txt matching is most-specific-group-only (RFC 9309),
# so a crawler with its own block never reads these rules. Do not add one.
#
# See _docs/infra/redirect-rules.md and backlog SACHA-07 #4.

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes,ai-train=no,use=reference
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

Sitemap: https://www.eyecarebillingconsultants.com/sitemap.xml