# Cosmoquick Robots.txt — canonical host: https://www.cosmoquick.com

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Crawl-budget triage: faceted / paginated / sorted variants are duplicates of
# their canonical listing pages and must not compete with job detail URLs.
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*&page=
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*&sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&filter=
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*&utm_
Disallow: /search?

# AI Crawlers (explicit allow)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Private / auth surfaces
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /employer/dashboard
Disallow: /candidate/dashboard
Disallow: /superadmin/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup
Disallow: /candidate/login
Disallow: /candidate/signup
Disallow: /verify-email
Disallow: /forgot-password
Disallow: /reset-password

# Tracking parameter noise
Disallow: /*?utm_
Disallow: /*?ref=
Disallow: /*?fbclid=
Disallow: /*?gclid=

# Canonical sitemap index (only reference files that exist)
# Single discovery source. The master index at /sitemap.xml lists every
# child sitemap (1,397 of them), so declaring children here adds nothing
# and previously advertised paths that no longer exist.
Sitemap: https://www.cosmoquick.com/sitemap.xml

# IndexNow key
# https://www.cosmoquick.com/cosmoquick-indexnow-key.txt

Host: https://www.cosmoquick.com