# ai.txt — AI crawler policy for IME GmbH
# https://www.ime-gmbh.com
#
# IME is a B2B lead engine for industrial-machinery spare parts; AI visibility
# serves that goal, so reputable AI crawlers may read the content — but at a
# measured pace (ClaudeBot alone fetched ~117k part pages on 2026-09-18).
#
# This file MIRRORS /robots.txt (src/app/robots.ts): same two groups, same
# Disallow list, same Crawl-delay. robots.txt stays authoritative and a unit
# test enforces the mirror — two documents that contradict each other are worse
# than one, because it is undefined which one a crawler applies (red-team B-9).
# Google-Extended is not a fetching agent and, exactly as in robots.txt, is
# covered by the wildcard group below.

User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*?brand=
Disallow: /*&brand=
Disallow: /*?ordercode=
Disallow: /*&ordercode=

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /*?q=
Disallow: /*?brand=
Disallow: /*&brand=
Disallow: /*?ordercode=
Disallow: /*&ordercode=

Sitemap: https://www.ime-gmbh.com/sitemap-index.xml