# robots.txt — sankalpkulkarni.com
# Sankalp Kulkarni (Shriisoot) — Developer & Web Designer in India

# Default: allow everything
User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Search engine crawlers — full access
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

# AI answer engines — explicitly allowed so they can cite this site
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

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

# IndexNow key
IndexNow-Key: ea9f8b66ca2a4e67a2a5dd70467ec3e4