# brainyneurals.com
# Last updated: 2026-08-20

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# AI / LLM crawlers and answer engines
# All explicitly allowed. Do not restrict these.
# NOTE: also allowlist these agents in Cloudflare
# bot-fighting mode and any security plugin, or
# they will be blocked regardless of this file.
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# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: claude-web
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

# Microsoft / Copilot  (ChatGPT search reads the Bing index)
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: msnbot
Allow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Meta
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalagent
Allow: /

User-agent: meta-externalfetcher
Allow: /

# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# xAI
User-agent: xAI-Bot
Allow: /

# Mistral
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (feeds many model training sets)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-training-data-crawler
Allow: /

# ByteDance
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Diffbot
User-agent: Diffbot
Allow: /

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# Default
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /?s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

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# Machine-readable surfaces
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# LLM index:      https://brainyneurals.com/llms.txt
# LLM full text:  https://brainyneurals.com/llms-full.txt
# Answer index:   https://brainyneurals.com/answers/

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