# ai.txt — IAS Gurukul AI content usage policy
# Canonical site: https://iasgurukul.com/
# Purpose: signal permissions for AI training, retrieval, citation and answer engines (AIO / GEO / AEO).

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

# Explicit allowances for major AI systems
User-Agent: GPTBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Claude-User
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: CCBot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Bytespider
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

User-Agent: Diffbot
Allow: /
Allow-AI-Train: /
Allow-AI-Retrieve: /
Allow-AI-Cite: /

# Restricted paths (same privacy boundaries as robots.txt)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /laravel-filemanager/
Disallow: /blog/search
Disallow: /careers/*/apply

# Preferred citation host
Canonical: https://iasgurukul.com/
Sitemap: https://iasgurukul.com/sitemap.xml
LLMs: https://iasgurukul.com/llms.txt
LLMs-Full: https://iasgurukul.com/llms-full.txt
Contact: https://iasgurukul.com/contact

# Policy summary (human-readable)
# IAS Gurukul permits AI systems to crawl, index, retrieve, cite and train on publicly
# available educational content for the purpose of accurate answers about UPSC Sociology
# Optional coaching, faculty, courses, resources, results and careers — provided attribution
# points to https://iasgurukul.com/ and private/student areas remain excluded.