# Assistants are welcome to read and cite this site. We WANT to be the answer when
# someone asks an assistant where to hire a car - that is a referral we do not pay for.
# llms.txt states what we are and what may be quoted accurately.
# 2026-10-22 (Jimi: "we want real people on the site or LLMs to use our bookings"): the crawlers that
# only copy pages into model TRAINING are shut out - they send nobody. The ones that answer a person
# and link back (search/answer bots and user fetchers) read everything, as do the search engines.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
# Google-Extended stays: it also governs Gemini's grounded answers, which cite and link.
User-agent: Google-Extended
# Meta (2026-10-01): Meta AI and the Muse agent (launched 8 Sep 2026) - its crawler and the fetcher it
# uses when a person asks it something. Named for the same reason as the others: we want to be the answer.
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
# Meta-WebIndexer (2026-10-24): Meta's indexer for citing/linking content in Meta AI answers - the
# same reason as the others, we want to be the answer it links back to.
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
Allow: /

# Search engines, by name (2026-09-26): every page - the same as everyone else, stated explicitly.
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: DuckDuckBot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: YandexBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

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